Valiant Vs. Image

Image. But I do like valiant and image more then marvel and DC

Valiant

Valiant.

Ninjak

Of course.

Fantagraphics....

Did I hipster correctly??

Image

If it wasn't for Invincible I would say Valiant. Invincible puts anything Valiant has to shame.

Image

Very hard but they are both really different. Image is more of a publisher and just delivers quality after quality original titles but Valiant takes my vote because since the beginning they have tried and succeeded at building a connected universe as well as having a pretty spotless record.

Fanta's pretty mainstream.

Now if you had said Koyama, Nobrow or Oily...

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Image by far. I read all of Valiants books from relaunch until about last Fall. Here's what I ultimately concluded. They are trying their very best to make some really good comics, and some of them are, with the best creators they can get. I'd recommend everyone check them out and see if any of it is for you. The bad, they are trying way too hard to be just another player just like Marvel and DC. Unfortunately, they don't have the mainstream character popularity. They can't keep enough quality ongoings to keep people interested and have begun trying to relaunch books as mini series. The only book that has been able to keep a fairly consistent quality is X-O Manowar, and I'm sure even its sales continually dip. Personally, I think they would have been better off not going the shared universe route. I just don't think there is enough room in the marketplace for Valiant now.

Image on the other hand is a different thing all together. Great books all their own with great creators giving their best to tell the stories they want to tell in a variety of genres. If the book fails, it's on the creators not Image.

Well, nobody hipsters better than you so.....

If you want a closely connected, fresh, small lineup of books all taking place in one universe that isn't convoluted - Valiant.

If you want an enormous diversity of writer-inspired books, most of which are supreme quality - Image.

You can't really go wrong with either company. Both deserve your money more than Marvel or DC.

They're both great, but I prefer Image at the moment.

Image stomps in both quality and quantity.

@the_stegman: Wrong! I mean... That's you're opinion.

These threads again...

Both.

Image. Invincible, Saga, and Spawn.

@legendary_starhero: your avatar.....I like it :)

Marvel

Buffy, don't you mean Dark Horse?

Overall Image but it's hard to top Dysarts work on Harbingers and some of that early relaunch XO Manowar and Bloodspot.

Valiant.

Nah, those are pretty known in hipster circles. I still have a long journey to go for better hipster credentials.

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@fallschirmjager: agree man.

Image, no question. Image has been on a roll for a long time. Where Dc and Marvel have had multiple hit or miss, mostly miss, events.

@guardiandevil83: Quantity isn't opinion, they make more than 9 books, lol. As for quality, I have yet to read a Valiant book that could beat Saga, or TWD, or Nail Biter, or Ghosted, I can on and on.

Like them both for different reasons

Valiant isn;t that good anymore while Imyage is destroying every other publisher with their books.

Valiant

image

Flipped a coin.

Heads.

Valiant.

Hard choice but in a vs battle Image comics take it

I keep trying out valiant, but I'm just not seeing where it gets all the praise from. I picked up the first issues of Imperium and Ninjak, and I'm on the third issue of Bloodshot Reborn, but I'm not hooked.

Image has yet to blow me away with any of its 2015 titles, but there are a lot of new books that have at least grabbed my interest.

Image gets my vote because Spawn is awesome. But I liked Rai and I am about to try out Bloodshot.

which one has spider-man in it?

Valiant, but Image comes out with some excellent titles as well.

Bring on the Book of Death!!!

@devitciiu:

Have you tried X-O Manowar?

@catsnlynne: I haven't, but I tried the first issue of Dead Drop, which had X-O Manowar, and I wasn't thrilled. Felt like the entire issue was just a chase scene.

@devitciiu: Heavil recommend X O Manowar, RV does a master class with building a new hero with it.