Man! Am I ever out of touch!
It’s been three years since I picked up a new comic book to read and I have a lot of catching up to do.
Several years ago one of my all-time favorite comic book publishers resurfaced as a new and improved version.
That company was (and is) Valiant Comics/Entertainment.
I was a big fan/reader of Valiant Comics when the company first appeared in the early 1990s. Sadly Valiant was a victim of the notorious ‘Speculator Craze’ and stopped publishing. It resurfaced a few years later, but eventually that version disappeared too.
Several attempts were made to reinvigorate Valiant’s licensed properties from Gold Key-all of them lasted only a few months.
Then, several years ago Valiant was reborn. only this time the company concentrated on its original creations and the rest, as they say, is history.
Valiant has garnered a loyal band of fan/followers and continues to turn out some pretty impressive stories.
Valiant was kind enough to send me a few examples of it books and I gotta say-I am impressed.
In Psi-Lords #1, with story and art by Fred Van Lente and Renato Guedes, readers find themselves in a prison. But not just any prison and holding not just any prisoners.
Four individuals: Tank, Beacon, Artisan and Hazard wake up in a strange place completely unaware as to how they got there, who they are and what they are capable of.
All of them find themselves communicating telepathically with a strange voice in their heads that identifies itself as Scion.
Of the four Artisan has a vague memory of being a Maker-a person capable of constructing and deconstructing things.
Artisan uses his muscle memory and manages to break free and almost perishes in the process.
Fortunately Scion triggers Artisan's latent power and as the other prisoners watch on they too discover their forgotten powers and all manage to escape.
There’s lots of mayhem and bloodshed.
They follow Scion’s mysterious ‘voice’ and find him also a captive.
He begins to fill them in on their true identities only to be struck down by a guard.
It’s now left up to the quartet to escape their prison and find the mysterious Psi-Lords if they have any chance of recovering what’s been lost to them. If only it were that simple.....
I like the story, the art, the concept and especially the coloring. This is not you grandma’s Psi-Lords comic book. Get ready for some action, adventure and mysteries galore in this new hit from Valiant.
There’s also a Killers preview included.
As I said before, I have a lot of catching up to do. Thanks Valiant for providing your Valiant Universe Handbook 2019 Edition.
Containing more than 311 illustrations and bios, the Handbook provides the perfect means by which I can brush up on the Valiant Universe.
It’s an extremely impressive compilation of art and text that delves in-depth about the people, places and things of the Valiant Universe. Bravo!
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