The Valiant, by Jeff Lemire and Matt Kindt, with artists Paolo and Joe Rivera. Published by Valiant Entertainment (2015). Two of the best indie writers around team-up to wrap up loose ends after the big Valiant event of 2014, Armor Hunters. Gilad, Kay the Geomancer, X-O Manowar, Ninjak, and Bloodshot take center stage, as Gilad wants to prevent the death of yet another geomancer at the hands of the immortal enemy. The Valiant was supposed to be the launch of 2015’s « Valiant Next » initiative, b...

★★★1/2This is one of the events that sparked major change in the Valiant universe. Gilad, the Eternal Warrior, has walked the earth for centuries, protecting the Geomancer: a person chosen throughout history to be the Earth's proxy and guardian. Gilad has only failed in his mission three times, when the unstoppable force called the Immortal Enemy attacks (we now learn the significance of Gilad's scars!), bringing dark times to the world. Now, the Immortal Enemy has risen again to threaten Kay Mc...

4.5 StarsThis one was headed for five stars but it lost me on the ending. Not that it was bad, just didn't quite fit the story to me.The premise of the story is we see the return of the Eternal Enemy, who is a little different than the original Valiant series. Here he's an evil entity who has been murdering Geomancers for centuries, and Gilad the Eternal Warrior has continuously failed to stop him. And once the Geomancer dies, the Earth plunges into dark times. (Such as the plague, the Dark Ages...

Art was pretty good, but the color was too flat and dark for my liking. The story seemed pretty pointless as it's an earth shattering threat but nothing much really happens, especially to have it's own miniseries.

Gilad the Eternal Warrior is tasked with protecting Geomancers - mystics who “speak for the Earth” and “guide humanity to new heights” (whatever that means). But each time a Geomancer appears, so does The Immortal Enemy whose purpose is to kill the Geomancer and plunge humanity into a perpetual dark age - Gilad may be eternal but the Geomancers aren’t! Not great at his job then… It’s present day and a new Geomancer appears - Kay McHenry - and this time Gilad is determined not to lose this one. E...

The ONLY reason I read this is because two of my favorite comics writers are Matt Kindt and Jeff Lemire and I generally try to read everything they do. And they are friends! So here they are working together?! I knew nothing about The Valiant or Valiant Comics. I just like their writing, so this was like a Dream Team effort, I figured. Disappointing. Pretty lame, overall. The world doesn't interest me in the least. Now, I am not a superhero guy, not really, though I read Batman and my share of t...

Oh boy, the legendary miniseries that changed everything for Valiant! 2 bad-a** authors team up and make a fantastic mini!What’s it about?A villain who makes anyone’s worst fears real becomes a major threat in the Valiant universe and a group of heroes must stop him.Why it gets 5 stars:The story’s good. Not the most creative storyline in comics but this book definitely does some things differently and it’s a cool story.These are some cool characters. Valiant puts out a lot of great comics (if yo...

This was a pretty good graphic novel about a group of warriors who try to stop the ultimate darkness. Will they succeed? Find out and check this book out wherever books are sold.

Valiant Comics are back. That’s a thing.If you’d have asked me a few years ago which comics would never come back, I would have said:Solar: Man of the AtomWarriors of Plasmand probably ROM: Space Knight.Solar: Man of the Atom got his powers by…who cares? Solar is like the king of the dollar comics bins. When someone has a big box of comics from the 90’s, and they’re really excited about it, dollars to donuts you’ll find some Solar in there. Warriors of Plasm ran for about a year, and it was canc...

If I had one complaint about this, it's that I wish it was an entire series. This is my first foray into anything Valiant, so I'm new to the characters and universe. If this is a taste of everything else, I'll definitely explore more of what they have to offer.

Excellent, finally I understand why the eternal warrior exists.

Wow! Just wow! This was an amazing story! Throughout time the story repeats. A geomancer is born, an immortal warrior is sent to protect her or him and the immortal demon attacks. Every time the warrior fails. Fast forward to present day with our Valiant warriors to help with the protecting. Excellent story! Amazing art!

I’ve changed my mind. The lack of explanation of too much of important plot points is driving me crazy. I can’t stop thinking about it and how none of it makes any sense. Dropped a star from three to two.I think there might be a LOT of backstory that I’m missing on this one, but nothing in this really explained much of anything. What a Geomancer was, why in some times they were young children and at other times grown adults. How long were they left alone before Chaos attacked? How often did they...

Okay, I wanted to start reading Bloodshot and then figured out he was starring here in The Valiant..Here's The Valiant in a couple of lines:Story was interesting, but not really properly written.. Dialogues were also a bit off at times.. And the ending, well, that wasn't really what I was expecting, but hey: you can't have straight up winners all the time, right? ;)

Kindt and Lemire BOTH??? And doing a superhero book??? A super hero Team??? Of their own invention???Even so, I was surprised by how good this is!

I see many of my comic-loving GR friends were unimpressed with this, but I really liked it.No, you can't defeat the Immortal Enemy, but maybe you can trick him into thinking he's won.Whatever.This was not typical Valiant art, and I preferred it.

This was one of the few Valiant comics that I just didn't care for.Mostly because it was just a depressing story that I didn't quite get. I know the characters and the basic idea of the whats and whys of the plot, but it was just gloomy sort of boring.Eternal Warrior seems to have a very wash, rinse, repeat destiny going on, and I'm not a fan of those kinds of storylines. I like that the ending gave a glimmer of hope, but it wasn't really enough for me. I don't know. Recommended for hardcore Ete...

My first Valiant crossover event, and it was so GOOD, simple but extremely effective, being four issues long was the only sin here, it could easily be a longer book, Jeff Lemire, Matt Kindt and the Rivera family, what more could you ask for.

This is a landmark in Valiant comics. Well deserving of its risky title. Absolutely great usage of characters along with one of the more horrifying villains in years.

I liked this more than I thought I would. The storyline is pretty complicated and dark, with an immortal warrior facing an invincible enemy of darkness, seeing countless people dying. This time, he has formidable team mates working on his side, for reasons of their own. Of course, my favorite character is the nanobite infected, anmesiac soldier, cause that's how I roll.It was weird, but the art was good, and the story was interesting. I would read more of these, of there are more.Overall rating:...