Valiant comics has been on the rise over the last few years in the direct market. Author Joshua Dysart has been instrumental part of the company’s success starting with his first title for the publisher: Harbinger. After the conclusion of that saga, the author went onto sculpt Imperium, a spinoff the previous series focusing in on Harbinger antagonist […]
Divinity II Establishes Abram Adams status as “one of the next great heroes in the Valiant Universe”
With the final installment of Valiant’s Divinity mini-series shipping in stores today, the publisher has announced that the marquee hero is going to be relaunching in another mini-series. Divinity II will feature the same creative team of Matt Kindt and Trevor Hairsine as the two continue to flesh out the story of Divinity, a hero living in the […]
Imperium #1 Review: A Beautiful Lie
When Valiant Next was first announced, the biggest questions for fans (including this writer) were “Why Imperium? What is the series? Where’s Harbinger?” As it turns out, we were asking all the wrong things—or so author Joshua Dysart would have us believe in Imperium #1. Here’s what we should have been asking: What will the future look like? Thanks to the incredibly well designed cover by […]
Valiant shows off Doug Braithwaite’s Incredible Pages from Imperium
By: Alexander Jones Imperium is coming. After getting briefed from Joshua Dysart on mission orders, check out these brand new pages from the fantastical Doug Braithwaite in a press release sent straight from the Valiant Entertainment headquarters in New York City. Imperium is Valiant’s spiritual successor to Harbinger, a title that carried the company into […]
Interview: Joshua Dysart on the “Largest Robber Baron” in The Valiant Universe [Imperium]
By: Alexander Jones “He’s definitely the largest robber baron in the history of the human species,” said author Joshua Dysart of Toyo Harada, the main character in his newest ongoing series Imperium. Valiant Entertainment could have just published another volume of their fan-favorite Harbinger title which Dysart also wrote and called it a day; but […]
Valiant’s February Solicitations—now with more Imperium
Valiant continues to roll out some new books—this month it’s Josh Dysart’s Imperium—but I really just posted this for the Matt Kindt/Jeff Lemire variant covers. IMPERIUM #1 [VALIANT NEXT] Written by JOSHUA DYSART Art by DOUG BRAITHWAITE Cover A (Harada) by RAUL ALLEN Cover B (Lord Vine-99) by RAUL ALLEN Cover C (Major Mech) by […]
VALIANT NEXT: five new series coming in 2015
Valiant is expanding its line with five new series in 2015 , some periodical format some prestige, some well known older Valiant properties and some that are less so. The new wave kicks off with The Valiant in December and continues with: