 So, what I wanted to do in this video is basically give you a review of some of the comic books that I've been reading, some of the series that I've been following for the last, well, better part of 2016, we're just getting into 2017 and what I usually end up doing at the end of every year when I'm doing hardcore collecting or at the beginning of the year is usually go through my comic books, go through my poll list at the comic store and I pretty much trim the fat, I get rid of some of the stuff that I'm not reading, some of the stuff, so I keep some of the stuff that's stuck with me, right? And a few weeks ago I showed you what my poll list was, majority of my poll list anyway at the comic book store and I've had the chance to go through some of those comics, read some of those comics, so I thought I'd give you a little bit of a review of what I've been reading. Okay, so the first bunch of comics we're going to look at are Valiance, so as far as the Valiance are concerned, I'm picking up everything except Faith, okay? And what I had the chance to do was catch up on Eternal Warrior, what an amazing series and this ended with issue number 14, so 14 finishes Wrath of the Eternal Warrior, but what a fantastic series, this was basically the most, the series I was looking forward to along with a couple of others, looking forward to the most coming out every month and it was absolutely fantastic and if you haven't read the series what you need to do is read the first four issues of Book of Death, the four issue mini series because that directly kicks into Wrath of the Eternal Warrior, okay? So there's really 18, this is number 14 for Wrath of the Eternal Warrior, but there's really 15, 16, 17, 18, so there's really 18 books in this series and seriously this just became one of my favorite series of all time and if you're an Eternal Warrior fan, one question that's always been lingering with everyone was what happens to the Eternal Warrior when he dies and basically at the end of Book of Death, well, at the beginning of the series we're shown what happens to the Eternal Warrior and what the whole sequence of events is and this was fantastic really, amazing series, amazing series and if we're going to rate them, I would give this one a 10 out of 10 as far as a character is concerned on the level of sort of portraying a character for their true essence, right? It was absolutely brilliant thing, we saw how what an amazing tactician, what an amazing warrior, the Eternal Warrior is, right, Gillette is because at the, you know, during the Book of Death mini series we saw him take out all of Unity, saw him take out Exo, Live Wire and Ninjak, I can't remember if Bloodshot was there as well, but there was another character as well, I believe the gigantic robot Enid, Jin, I forget the names, I'm bad with names, but he took out all of them in like two minutes, right, fantastic series Wrath of the Eternal Warrior and I did review the first series that Valiant put out with the relaunch, the Eternal Warrior series, that was an E8 issue series, I know a lot of people didn't like it, I loved it, I thought it was extremely well done and just, there's three issues of Eternal Warrior, it's been released that I haven't read yet, which is Days of Steel, I believe it's just a three issue mini series, but so far all of the Eternal Warrior stories, I think they tie in, they take us everywhere, right, it's basically all the stories that have been told are sort of shown as his namesake, where he's, you know, where he came from, with some of the history behind it, with, you know, the first mini series with four of the comics and that, and then they took us to the future, and that part, the first four, I believe, sort of connected up with the present as well, so he was having recaps over, finding out all the different houses, and then the next four took us out all the way to 4001 or 4002 or whatever it is into the future, and Wrath of the Eternal Warrior connects up the present into where he goes when he dies, which is amazing, amazing, right? Another sort of series that I finished catching up on, which was the 4001 AD crossover, which was, you know, we had the 4001, you know, I caught up with number three and four, you know, I already read one and two, and then I read Rai, 15 and 16, and the previous one or two to this were amazing. The crossover was 4001 AD and Rai, I like 4001 AD, it was good, but what was happening in Rai during this crossover was absolutely brilliant, like really, you know, 10 out of 10 for sure what was happening in Rai, as for the crossover itself, the mini series, you know, it was okay if you're sticking with, since I started sticking with the reading system, I would give it, you know, eight and a half out of ten or something, it was a fun read, and the other one that I really liked was the introduction of War Mother into the Valiant Universe, I'm assuming it's going to be a major female character in the Valiant Universe, and it was unique, it was, War Mother was fantastic, and I love the sci-fi aspect of it, absolutely fantastic, I loved it, nine and a half out of ten if I was given a reading system. Now Harbinger, Renegade, there's only two issues out, I got two copies of number one, so this is number one and number two, so I'm not too deep into this, but really good so far, it's got a good start to it, it's really hard to decide how good a series is going to be, just by two issues, but it's been pretty good so far, I like it, I'm looking forward to it, definitely a great start, and just to give you an idea, where is this? Oh yeah, how good a series it's going to be, where did I put it? Just on that note, I read all five issues, there's five issues of generation, generation zero out, and the reason I'm jumping to this one is because Harbinger is only too deep, so when I read generation number one, I was like, it's okay, I mean the writer is Fred Van Lent, and I think he's one of the, just fantastic, I'm pretty sure he's the writer for the 2012 Archer and Armstrong series, and that was, that's one of my ultimate favorite series of all time, and you can see some of the humor, I hope I got the right writer, you can see the humor popping up in this as well, and then I read Generation 2, and I was like, getting interesting, getting fun, Generation 3, I was immersed in it, and then the humor starts kicking in, and by number five, I'm really looking forward to this coming out, right? This more so right now than Harbinger, just to give you a feel for, sometimes it takes a few issues to get into a series, right? So Generation 0, 9.5 out of 10, easy peasy, Harbinger so far with two issues in, I give it an 8.5 out of 10, another crossover that I got caught up on, it was really good, it's fun, now where are we, here we go. So I read, I was reading Bloodshot Reborn from the beginning, and then I missed, I've missed some of the issues in the middle, I forget how deep I got into it, where I missed it, but basically I picked that up again with Bloodshot Reborn with Bloodshot Island, okay? I wanted to know what was going on with Bloodshot Island because I heard that that was kicking into Bloodshot USA, and you know, I read Bloodshot Island, I believe start off with number 14, this is number 16, 17, 18, and I believe Bloodshot Reborn is over, and that's directly kicking Bloodshot USA, and Bloodshot Island was fun, it gave us a lot of history of Project Rising Star and some of Bloodshot, and we saw like a Bloodshot family now, and one thing that's happened is, Valiant, one thing they said when they did the relaunch at the beginning, they said when a character dies, he's not coming back, or she's not coming back, right? So we've been taking Valiant at their word that when they kill off a character, they're not going to come back again, okay? In Bloodshot Island, I'm not sure if you can hear this, there's like a wind storm outside, it's really windy, it's been really windy for like 24 hours so far, it's crazy windy, great, great time to read a comic book, storm outside, read comic books, I can't get any better than that, right? But going back to Bloodshot Reborn, Bloodshot Island, I believe it's issue number 14 or 15, Kay comes back, okay? And Kay is from the Valiant, the Geomancer that the Eternal Enemy, anyone giving spoilers, but you know, you should read those, they were fun, the Valiant was fantastic. So Bloodshot Island was, you know, it was fun, it was really good, giving us some history, and the artwork was crazy. Miko, Suyon, S-U-A-Y-A-N, fantastic artwork, fantastic artwork, really, very unique and very live, like there's some artists that, you know, when they draw it, it's beautiful, but there's no motion in it, right? Miso, Suyon, I don't know how to pronounce that, his artwork is motion, it's brilliant, it's fantastic, and it was really good for for Bloodshot Island because there was a lot of, a lot of motion happening in the story arc, and the writer is just Jeff Lemire, right? Wow, wow, wow. So that, Bloodshot Island, the end of Bloodshot Reborn, kicks into Bloodshot USA, and the writer for this is, again, Jeff Lemire, and the artwork is Doug Brathwaite, Doug Brathwaite, and it's a good story so far, it's very good, sort of kicks us up a notch with the project rising, rising spiritually, how insane they are, right? They're crazy. You could definitely extrapolate some of the stuff that's happening for, in Bloodshot, USA and Bloodshot Island, into present day politics, guaranteed, guaranteed. Now, so we cover Generation Zero, let me talk about Divinity. Okay, so I caught up on Divinity 2 with number three and four, this is another mini-series, so I had read, it's all buried in boxes, now one and two, and it was a pause, so I finished off Divinity 3 and 4, the odds are I'm going to pick up the trade for this because my gap between 2, reading 2 and reading 3 was a little bit too long, so the odds are I'm going to pick up the trade for this and read the trade paperback, the story arc in one shot, and Divinity number 2 kicks off directly into Divinity number three, and this is number three, number one, and the first one shot that's out right now is Commander Bloodshot, right? The sort of story arc is basically the universe has been changed, the time stream where the Soviet Union encompasses the world, and it's fantastic, and it's a nice premise, and there have been other premises like this, one of them was, there's a trade that I've read, I haven't finished the whole trade yet, but I forget what it is, I might post the name here when I, you know, for this video it's a fantastic story arc, but at some point I'm going to grab the whole story arc and read it, I've only read some of it, but this is along the same premise to a certain degree, but one thing I'll mention is so far, Valiant Comics, the one shot statement putting out, they are some of the most amazing one shot story arcs I've read, and they're basically stand-alones, you really don't have to know too much about the Valiant universe or the characters to appreciate what's going on, so the one shots that Valiant is putting out, I'm picking up all of them, and I'm definitely making sure that I read all of them, so this was really good, it was, you know, Divinity Number 3, Number 1, it was good to sort of lay down the foundation, and it was interesting what was going on, dark, very dark, okay, from what I read so far, so I'm looking forward to the rest of this series, and Divinity Number 2, it was basically the second part of the continuation of Divinity Number 1, so if you really want to get into the Divinity Story arcs, I know Valiant is calling, I'm different, starting out with Number 1's and their, you know, Volume 1, 2, 3, or whatever it is, but it's one continuous story arc, okay, so when Divinity Number 3 is done, there's going to be 12 issues in the series, if you want to think about it that way, so that's been fun read, definitely fun read, one of the most fantastic, amazing, like one of some of Valiant's best work, like really fantastic, and the writer for this, and it's Britannia, if you've been reading Valiant, you've read Britannia, you know it's going to be Britannia, so I finished off the Britannia four issue mini series, there were no one shots associated with this, the writer for this is Peter Milligan, and the artist is Juan Jose Rup, R-Y-P, last name, Ripe, Ripe, I don't know, Ripe, wow, right, if you want to take a look at the artwork of this artist, the details are absolutely amazing, and we read, I put out the videos for Legends of the Geomats, for all four issues, and it's the same artist, this is the same artist, and very unique artwork, very unique artwork, and the storyline for this is fantastic, really, one of the best things, if not the best thing I've read in 2016, and I've read a lot, I just sat down, I had only planned on reading one, I had time for reading one, but I sat down and read the whole thing in one shot, I couldn't put it down, I had to read the whole thing, the artwork is amazing, the story is a sort of a Roman detective story, 10 out of 10, on the same level as Eternal Warrior, but Eternal Warrior, I found it too short, each issue was too short for me, so I would rank Britannia above the wrath of the Eternal Warrior, because each issue was long, was intricate, was detailed, the quality of the comic is heavy stock, fantastic quality paper, like it's prestige format, for a regular comic book price for most publishers anyway, and one other thing about this is that the end of each story, each issue, they had brought in a historian, I'm assuming the person was a Roman historian, this professor, something, something, something, and he was writing, so this is, it's got a lot of history in it, so the stories at the back, there was like four or five pages, three or four or five pages of written text, where this professor is explaining some of the history behind what's happening in Britannia, and you know they talk about Roman, Britain, Britain, they talk about the female sect, and they talk about the centurion, they talk about Neo, so there's four things they cover, I think I got those right, and I didn't read those yet, but I talked to a comic book shop owner, and he told me it was a Roman history buff, and he found the writing at the back extremely intriguing, so I'm assuming there's a lot of cool stuff covering that if you're into that, right? So Britannia, as far as I'm concerned, a must read, must read for 2016, for comic books that came out in 2016, same with Wrath of the Turner or Warrior, they're a must read, Divinity 2 as well, yes. The other series that I caught up with, I was way behind, was Archer and Armstrong, and it read issue number five to ten, and it was fun, right? It's not as good as the 2012 Archer and Armstrong series, in my opinion anyway, I know some people are loving this, and the writer for this is Raphael Roberts, and the artist is Mike Norton, the art suits the story arc, it's very light, funny, jumping around, and a lot of different like zany characters, but I consider the 2012 Archer and Armstrong series a 10 out of 10, like that one's one of my favorite series of all time. This one I would give an eight, if you're in for some light reading, it's a fun read, it's really, it is definitely a fun read. Okay, and those are the valiants, and there's one more, actually two more I want to show you, okay. Now I'm way behind on my Ninjak reads, I read a few of the first issues, and I stopped reading, and I haven't read most of this, but I definitely read through Ninjak 22, because it's a silent issue, right? As soon as I found out it was a silent issue, I actually grabbed like more than one copy of this, and it was fantastic, right? I still haven't read the silent issue for G.I. Joe, I haven't got my hands on it yet, but I wanted to read through this, I saw, I've seen some of the pages for the G.I. Joe silent issue, it looks super cool, I didn't want to look at it all on the computer, I wanted it in my hands, so I haven't read the rest, so I sat down and read through this, this is, I've read some Ninjak, right? This is the most badass I've seen Ninjak, and it's a silent issue, and it was beautifully told, beautifully told, and at the end of this, okay, spoiler, it'll take 15 seconds, at the end of this, he meets up with Roku, his ex-lover, and at the end we see a master dark poppets head out of the cauldron, I guess, so I just basically gave it a punchline of this, of this issue, but if you haven't read Ninjak, all you need to know about this is, he's an operative, an MI6 operative to soon to be able to rogue, he does his own thing as well, he's a ninja, he's trained in martial arts and stuff, he's badass, but this is the most badass I've seen him, like really, they did really good with this, I really like this, and definitely the next issue, and this one kicks off into Ninjak 23 and it's a story arc with the seven blades of something something, I'm definitely going to continue the reading from here, so it's a good jumping on point if you're into Ninjak, or if you want to read some Ninjak, and the last thing from Valiant I've read, and I haven't read XO, I haven't finished off XO, I have a whole bunch to go there, I've read into the 30s, so I have to read the rest, or the late 20s, and there's some other ones I haven't read, Rai, I have a Gap, and some of the other stuff, those are all the values I've caught up on, or picking up from, like Ninjak I'm going to start reading it from now on, and the other one I read, of course, of course, is Savage, Savage, Savage, Number 1, and Savage, Number 2, okay, very excited about this character, the first appearance is in Savage Number 1, it's a four issue miniseries, it tells you the history, tells you the origin, it lays down the framework pretty well, has flashbacks to the past and present, and it's good, there was something missing in the Valiant universe, and Savage is it, seriously, looking forward to this, and this thing, you know, I'll give it a like, because it's just two issues in, I'll give it a nine out of ten for now, okay, I'm very curious of where they take this thing, but the buzz on this, I guess this didn't get too much orders, because when Savage, and I grabbed a few copies of this, and I have the 1 in 10, a couple of copies of 1 in 10 and 1 in 20, but the 1 in 50, like the 1 in 20 is fetching a pretty premium price, and I think it's crazy, I don't think people should be paying that much for that, but if you're chasing covers, and there are some covers that I'm chasing and I will pay extra for, so you know, specifically for collector's base, I see why it's being done, it's sort of fun to chase covers and stuff like this, but the 1 in 50 for Savage, when it came out, the 1 in 50 on eBay sold for over $800 US, okay, that was the first sale that I saw go through, the next sale went through for $500 US, and last time I checked there's one sitting for buy it now at $400 or $500 US, okay, insane prices, the variant covers, the incentive covers for valiant comics, they're fetching ridiculous prices, okay, so that says two things, that tells me two things, people collecting valiance have extra funds, right, they're not your general teenage collector, I guess, maybe, right, because most, and that's my experience as well, most of the people that I've seen that are reading valiant, the people that I've seen that are reading valiant have them or picking up everything, right, they're doing what I'm doing, and usually they're older, late 20s, 30s, I guess we're some of the ones that new valiant comics at the beginning, and there are some newer readers coming on board, younger readers, so there are some serious collectors collecting valiance, and that's one thing it tells me, that people who are collecting valiance, there are some of the ones who are chasing the incentive covers, they have funds, so they're able to this much money I don't, right, the other thing it tells me is the print runs on these are pretty low compared to some of the other comic books out there, some of the other publishers out there, if the one in 50 is fetching that much, then one in 20, one in 10, and even though this is the, I think this is the regular cover, this is the regular cover, I'm assuming there wasn't too many orders of this either, right, because if you ordered 50 of these from your comic book retailer, they're selling for I think four dollars, right, four times 50 is 200, right, 200 dollars, then you would get the one in 10, one in 20, one in, actually you would get I guess five one in 10s, two one in 20s, and one one in 50, right, so let's assume it's going to cost you 200, let's say 225 bucks, you buy all those, you can sell the one in 50 for 800, for 500, for 400, I'm pretty sure if anyone puts up the one in 50 right now on eBay for 300 dollars, it's going to be sold, that means you bought all your comics for free, again this is just savage, some of the other ones, the one in 50s aren't going for that much, they're going for less than 100 or less than 200 at least anyway, I believe some are going for way less, there are valiant comics that have seen that are one in 120 that are going for less than 100, way less than 100, right, and there's a couple that I want to buy, I'm just waiting for the right deal, I'm checking on a regular basis, so don't expect this to happen for all of them, but there's something going on with valiant comics, hopefully it's not a bubble, but based on the stories that they're telling, the valiant, valiant comics as you know, I'm pumping this a little bit too high I think, but they're fantastic reads, so that's my review of the valiant comics that I've read so far, loved majority of them, liked a lot of them a lot, and found some of them fun reads, as for the rest of the comics, what should we do, let's see, let me put these guys here, now the odds are I could break this up I guess into more independence and some of the just sample stuff up and reading that I might be picking up, and you know there are a lot of image books that I'm reading here, so we could go either way, but the odds are I'll probably just put maybe one more thing together, definitely do a review for Tokyo Ghost, and just some randoms I've picked up, Saber Tooth Dan, just some independence, I like independence, I'll give you my review of hillbilly that's for sure, Albatross I believe, yeah Albatross comics, Eric Powell, and I'm reading actually three issues from Eric Powell right now, and I haven't read Goon, I came on, I found Eric Powell after Goon was, you know just recently, so at some point I'm going to read Goon, after shock comics, I'm reading after shock comics, so Captain Kid, animosity for sure, for sure I'll give you my review of I Hate Fairland, black, full black mass comics for sure, this cover is crazy, this cover is insane, I picked up one, I picked up this, I think it's three issues, is it three, where are we at, three issues deep, I had to go back to the comic book store and I picked up some extra copies of this, just blows me away, cover for our times, cover for a long time, for a long time, I might frame this one and put it beside a picture of, who was the original person, not Nino Simone, strange fruit, Billie Holiday, I might frame this one with a picture of Billie Holiday and Nino Simone in there or something, killer or be killed, at Brewer Baker, just some of the other comics that I'm reading, so we'll do another, the one present back, oh yeah, and Terry Moore started another series, Motor Girl, so we'll take a look at that, so we'll do one more review comic before we get into the comic book readings, those are my valiant reads, that's what I'm staying up with and from now on I'm not going to allow myself to fall behind with valians because XO has ended, Rathad, Eternal Warrior has ended, Bloodshot has ended, Rai has ended, Divinity 3 started, Savage has started and they're in 2017, they're going to start a few other ones, so from now on I'm not going to let myself fall behind, I'm going to stay up with Ninjak, okay, and those are my reviews for valiant, I'd be reading all of them, I like all of them and Archer and Armstrong, even though I just gave it an okay made out of 10 ratings or something like this, it's getting more and more interesting, one thing I liked about the Archer and Armstrong series from 2012, it showed us the zaniness, the craziness of the world, all the different sex involved and the sex from the world are coming back, all the one percenters and I even the talking bear is a new introduction and gum gum is the little guy, so it's becoming fun, I'm getting into it, the last three, four issues of that was super fun to read, okay, so that's it for now, I'll see you guys in the next video that we're going to do, which is the review of the rest of the comics here, okay, thanks for watching this, I'll see you guys in the next video, bye for now.