New Shooter work at Valiant
Like many of you, I thought the Valiant universe was dead and gone. Well, not so fast.
CBR reports that Valiant will be releasing a hardcover collection entitled Harbinger: The Beginning (which will be "digitally recolored and remastered using state-of-the-art computer techniques") which will include a brand-new story written by one-time Valiant head-honcho Jim Shooter, with art by Bob Hall (who drew Valiant’s Shadowman) entitled "The Origin of Harada."
The book is solicited in June previews, which means it’ll be in stores in August (Valiant’s shooting, pun intended, for the 29th). I’m very pleased because this item gives me an excuse to run a picture of one of my favorite all-time comic book characters, the lovely and zaftig Zephyr.
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Well, I definitely never thought I’d ever see any new Valiant material. Surprising!
The last Jim Shooter comic I read was in his last attempt to use these characters. It featured, as villains, an incestuous brother and sister (implications of it not being totally consensual not adding to the nastiness). All I recall is that I appalled by the entire thing and swore at that time never to read another Shooter comic, or support whatever he was planning in the future.
You think it’s time for me to get over it?
Definitely time to get over it. Like you I too was done with Shooter after reading his terrible work on Unity 2000 but Shooter back with Harbinger, writing Valiant the way Valiant is supposed to be written and without Acclaim demanding video game versions of the Valiant characters warrants another chance. Great news