Comments on: Nostalgia November Day 22 — Secret Weapons #2

By: Brian Cronin

Brian Cronin — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 22:49:46 +0000

I think roughly 25 cents.

Issues later on towards the end of Valiant being in business (like late issues of The Visitor) can actually fetch some decent change.

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 22:47:59 +0000

how much you think this issue is worth?

By: Chad Nevett

Chad Nevett — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:51:07 +0000

I read it when I was 12 or 13… and remember very little of it.

By: Ultimate Matt

Ultimate Matt — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:07:49 +0000

The last page was a reference to Unity, yeah. Erica Pierce was the “demon” Darque was trying to summon, which is really stupid and totally misuses Unity and misses the point of what Valiant comics was all about (for the first 2 years) in the first place. This story through to the Chaos Effect is definetly where you can see the crash and burn of Valiant (everything after Chaos Effect is just continued burning).

Chad, you never read Unity? It’s one of my top 5 “events” of all time, and one of the few things I read as a 12 year old that holds up when i re-read it as an adult. It makes me sort of sad when people have only read stuff like this and not the “real” Valiant (everything up till about 6 moths after Shooter left).

By: jjc

jjc — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:50:41 +0000

I loved the Valiant stuff up until Chaos Effect. After that…yeesh.

By: Chad Nevett

Chad Nevett — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:01:57 +0000

Thanks, Todd! That makes sense.

By: Todd

Todd — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:27:45 +0000

If I remember that last page correctly it’s almost a line for line, panel for panel reference to the end of the Unity crossover (or at least a chapter of the Unity crossover) and the girl is supposed to be Erica Pierce who was that story’s villian. I think I always interpreted that as showing us that the demon Darque was trying to summon was Pierce, but the whole thing was pretty vague and never really followed up on.

By: Keith

Keith — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:43:58 +0000

The quality of Valiant comics immediately went off the deep end once Shooter left, and this comic exemplifies that fact. Darque had all the makings of a great villain and the idea of an Avengers-like book in the Valiant universe should have rocked. What a shame. Here’s hoping when Dark Horse gets its act together, the new Gold Key relaunch will recapture some of that lightning in the bottle Shooter had back in the day.