“Valiant Comics are back. Thatâs a thing.
If youâd have asked me a few years ago which comics would never come back, I would have said:
Solar: Man of the Atom
Warriors of Plasm
and probably ROM: Space Knight.
Solar: Man of the Atom got his powers byâ¦who cares? Solar is like the king of the dollar comics bins. When someone has a big box of comics from the 90âs, and theyâre really excited about it, dollars to donuts youâll find some Solar in there.
Warriors of Plasm ran for about a year, and it was canceled. But I had a Plasm poster in my bedroom that I thought was pretty cool, even though the primary focus in the image was a portly dude in pants up above his belly throwing a haymaker.
And then ROM: Space Knight. I think the premise is mostly in the title. Heâs a space knight. Robot. Guy.
One of these three titles has made a comeback, along with its brethren from Valiant. Any guesses?
Well, itâs Solar. And Valiant comics, in general.
The way I found out about it was from a comic book club I run at a high school. For work. Good god, thank everything thatâs holy that Iâm not visiting a high school twice a month just because itâs the only way I can get people to talk to me about comics. I mean, it IS, but thatâs not the primary motivator, so all is good.
One of the kids in the book club told me that Valiant was putting out good books. And I was like, âValiant? You meanâ¦there are Valiant books out now? Not some old Solar: Man of the Atom books from your uncleâs garage or something?â
Nope. Valiant.
The characters they have running now arenât the worst, honestly. A ninja, an immortal hobo, some guy who kills people with an axe, or at least tries. In this book, we mostly see him get housed over and over throughout history by the same infinite evil.
Bloodshotâs banter is fun. Thereâs someone who calls herself a Geomancer, whatever the fuck that is. She doesnât even know herself.
This book kind of a big, whole universe book, and I guess it was weird to me because I donât know very many of these characters. So seeing, you know, a giant robot and XO Manowar together at last was less exciting than it was supposed to be.
But there it is. Valiant comics. Whoâs have thought?”