As the main site points out, Tim Drake get a new origin for the New 52 in next week’s Teen Titans #0 – He’s not the only Robin for that to be the case, as Jason Todd’s origin got a pretty major rewrite in this week’s Red Hood and The Outlaws (Especially if you believe the epilogue).

What’s so interesting to me about the two new origins – Not to mention the similarly new origins and backstories for Guy Gardner and other characters – is that it feels like these Zero Month issues are, in many ways, a chance for the New 52 books to catch their breath and course-correct in a lot of ways… Drawing distinctions between themselves and the “old” DCU, and also reworking things from even just a year ago in order to make a more coherent universe. I’m not sure that it’s entirely successful in either goal, but as exhausting and uneven as it’s been to read all of the Zero Month issues this month – That’s a lot of comics, people – I have a sneaking suspicion that the DCU is actually in better shape in September 2012 than it was in September 2011. Am I completely alone in thinking that?

Never mind the cancellation and relaunch of The Amazing Spider-Man, Archie Comics is apparently putting Jughead on hiatus for the first time in 63 years as it plans to retool the character:

As you’re aware, Archie has been reinventing itself for the last three years. That reinvention process is most visible in books like Life With Archie, Kevin Keller, The Art of Betty & Veronica, the New Crusaders comic, the Sonic and Archie Super Specials, and much more. Because Jughead is a very important character to us, that reinvention process will also apply to him. So while we’re putting together exactly how to do that, we’ve put the Jughead comic on hiatus until the relaunch happens.

I can’t even imagine what kind of reinvention Jughead could undergo. I admit to being worried that we’re headed towards some ill-considered healthier version, a la the fruit-eating Cookie Monster on Sesame Street these days…

Two of Portland’s finest go head to head as Paul Tobin and Jeff Parker talk writing, comics and Winnie The Pooh. Oh, and also Earth’s Mightiest Heroes:

PT: Like me, you love a lot of Marvel’s second, third, and even fourth tier characters. And, like me, I know that’s partially because you can play with them a bit more, as they’re not caught up in continuity, etc, as much as the “big” characters. That aside, if you could form the Avengers out of any seven characters, with no editorial interference, who would it be? And, hell… let’s open it up to all characters from any companies, any media.

JP: Not sure any actual Avengers would make it in- well, Hulk. That’s what the movie did right that the books abandoned almost immediately, put Hulk in there. Then maybe Popeye, Supergirl, Sherlock Holmes, Dracula, Tarzan, and Venus, also a Marvel character I wrote in Agents of Atlas.

PT: This project is approved. Popeye having to work with Dracula? The Hulk with Sherlock Holmes? Yes.

Dear Internet: I would read that book in a second. Just imagine Supergirl and Popeye having an arm-wrestling contest in their downtime.

Hopefully, it’s third time lucky for John Rozum’s Midnight, Mass:

NBC has put in development Midnight, Mass., a drama series based on characters from the Vertigo comic books and graphic novels published by DC Entertainment. Snow White And The Huntsman co-writer Evan Daugherty will write the adaptation, produced by Warner Bros. TV and Bill Gerber‘s Gerber Pictures, which has received a script commitment.

According to Deadline, this is the second time the series has been optioned for television, but according to Rozum, it’s the third. As he posted on his blog, he’s “a bit more hopeful this time with the talent involved.” If nothing else, I hope that the news makes it more likely that DC will greenlight a new series of the supernatural investigation book, and maybe get us some trades of the first two volumes, too.

To everyone freaking out over the LAST ISSUE notice on the solicit for Amazing Spider-Man #700: People, they already cancelled and relaunched the series once back in 1999. This is but a hiccup in the grand scheme of things, especially considering Marvel is in the middle of an announced period of relaunching important titles; last year’s cancellation of Uncanny X-Men was a bigger deal, all things considered.

The much more interesting and shocking thing about this month’s Marvel solicits is seeing the publisher switch their Castle tie-ins from OGN format to mini-series and seeing Kelly Sue DeConnick and Brian Michael Bendis replaced with Peter David for this latest go-around, personally. Guess Marvel really doesn’t like that OGN format after all.

(Also, go read Albert’s great speculation piece about what could be so big about Amazing Spider-Man #700. It’s good stuff.)

This just appeared in my inbox, and I’m sensing a trend…

Archie Comics, the leading mass-market comic book publisher in the world and home to such notable pop culture creations as Archie, Jughead, Betty & Veronica, Josie & The Pussycats, and Sabrina the Teenage Witch, announced today that it will be expanding its global presence by launching “Archie Comics” digital publishing applications for China, Japan, India and more in the fall of 2012 through an expanded partnership with iVerse Media’s new iVerse International program.

I wonder if iVerse has decided to concentrate on global marketshare in terms of digital releases, ceding the US territory to ComiXology? And I’m also wondering if DC is going to release a similar press release soon…?

Marvel is going digital… again:

Today Marvel Entertainment, one of the world’s most prominent character-based entertainment companies, announced it will exclusively distribute single issue and collected edition foreign language digital comics worldwide with iVerse, an innovator and unique voice in the mobile publishing field.This multi-year agreement reinforces both Marvel’s position as one of the leading global entertainment brands and the number one comic book publisher in the world, while also bringing its unparalleled library of popular characters and acclaimed stories to the widest possible global audience. This foreign language content will launch in late 2012 with staggered releases worldwide.

I honestly thought that Marvel was digital exclusive with ComiXology, but that’s clearly not the case; the press release quoted above even takes pains to point out that “Marvel and iVerse first partnered to distribute single-issue, English language digital comics in 2009,” adding that “the ComicsPlus app, available through the App Store and Google Play, currently offers a robust selection of Marvel Digital Graphic Novels.”

It’s not made clear in the release whether these will be all-new translations done for individual issues in their original, US incarnation, or digital distribution of existing translations and repackagings. Common sense would suggest the former, but I wonder what that would mean for existing international licensing deals – Doesn’t it put Marvel’s digital foreign language editions in direct competition with those repackagings?

On his Tumblr, Brian Michael Bendis writes a tribute to recent Avengers collaborator Walter Simonson:

The good news is that someone I admired from afar was just as impressive when I got to work with him. It was a complete joy and definitely a time machine moment. I desperately want to go back in time and tell teenage me that not only was I writing the Avengers but Walt Simonson was drawing them.

Simonson is one of comics’ treasures; even though everyone loves him, he still seems underrated somehow.

The wonders of the ComicsInternet: In response to speculation from The Beat, Demon Knights writer Paul Cornell tweets the following:

How long before he responds to this rumor, I wonder?

(Also, I’m glad Demon Knights isn’t being cancelled. I’d wandered away from the book, but enjoyed #0 enough that I suspect I’ll go back and pick up the issues I missed.)

If this turns out to be true and Marvel ends up contributing towards the medical costs for Bill Mantlo in light of the usage of his Rocket Raccoon character in the Guardians of The Galaxy movie and subsequent merchandise (Along with Bug, for that matter; Mantlo was the original writer for Marvel’s Micronauts, where the character first appeared), that’d be great news. Surprising, to my cynical soul, but nevertheless really welcome, really good news.

For those unfamiliar with Bill Mantlo, he was a mainstay of Marvel Comics throughout the 1970s and ’80s, working on such big-name titles as Thor, Spectacular Spider-Man and Incredible Hulk in addition to the work on licensed titles that arguably made his name, ROM and Micronauts (both of which he brought to comic life; he also wrote the first couple of issues of Marvel’s Transformers series). He was hit by a car while rollerblading in 1992, and spent several years in a coma afterwards as a result; although he woke from the coma, the brain damage from the accident meant that he’s needed full-time medical care ever since. There have been a number of fan-led fundraisers to help his brother, Michael, with the costs of such care throughout the years, but neither Marvel nor DC (for whom Mantlo scripted Invasion! back in 1989) have made any significant contribution towards financial assistance… until now, perhaps.

The Bleeding Cool source suggests “a five figure sum” is being offered. Maybe Marvel could put out a few Mantlo-centric collected editions (If only they could get the rights to ROM back; I can’t imagine that wouldn’t sell more than a few Essential collections) to work out another way of contributing, even if only in terms of royalty payments.

I’m not sure how I missed this before, but DC is posting all of the Crimson Corsair two-page back-up strips from the various Before Watchmen titles online, giving you a chance to (a) catch up with the story you may have missed from the series that you’re not following, (b) read them for the first time because you’re boycotting the titles and now have a chance to indulge your need to snark without paying DC any money for the pleasure, (c) get confused about what the point of Crimson Corsair is in the first place.

I’m one of the people in (a) – I’ve seen various issues of the Before Watchmen books, but would be lying if I said that I’d been paying Corsair that much attention at all – and reading through the story so far, I’m left as cold afterwards as I was confused before. Oddly/Interestingly enough, I feel as if it picks up some narrative speed when John Higgins takes over as writer as well as artist, so perhaps original writer Len Wein had the same “What is this for?” feelings as I did… But either way, the fact that it’s going to be made entirely available online for free pretty much guarantees that I’ll end up reading the whole thing at some point. I can only hope that Higgins finds a way to make the story have an equal weight to the “It’s a Pirate Comic! Like they read in the original Watchmen!” concept at some point along the way.

Over at Marvel.com, we get sneak peeks at two new armors from the Marvel NOW! relaunch of Iron Man, both of which are designed not by series artist Greg Land, but by Carlo Pagulayan, apparently. Both are updates on old favorites – the Stealth Suit in particular is one of those armors that seems to be beloved by many fans, I think – and make me hope that we’re going to see a revival of the Space Armor that Bob Layton designed way back when (“How can I show that he’s in space? Wait, I’ll take away his mouth hole, because he shouldn’t be breathing in space anyway”).

I have to admit, there’s something about seeing the alternate armors that really appeals to me. Not necessarily the armors themselves – I tend to find the majority of Iron Man armors visually bland at best, although I liked the Heroic Age-era redesign from a few years back – but the idea that the armor is interchangable and mission-specific. It makes Iron Man as a character less about the armor and more about the man who created and wears the armor, if that makes sense. Now, if only there was some way to bring Happy Hogan back, I’d be in Iron Man heaven…

This is turning out to be far more interesting than you may have expected originally. The short version of what’s gone before is, after Dave Sim announced in the last issue of Glamorpuss that he may be forced to leave the comic industry due to financial pressures, Kim Thompson from Fantagraphics essentially offered to republish/repackage the entirety of Cerebus to allow Sim to continue to work as a comic creator. Now, Sim has responded publicly with a surprise counteroffer:

As President Kennedy said, “Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us also never fear to negotiate.” Let’s do so publicly. Completely publicly. The contract Fantagraphics is offering me, how Kim envisions the context being developed, candidates for doing the New York Times-worthy “contextualizing” (first salvo: please no Jeet Heer, as much as I like Jeet as a person and I do like Jeet as a person). Does Kim want to do it himself? Does Gary? Any time you have new thoughts on the subject, just post them here and I’ll respond to it.

Negotiating publicly is an interesting – and unlikely – strategy that feels like a weird way of shutting down the conversation instead of saying no outright. How many publishers are really likely to reveal all of their inner workings in front of everyone, after all?

Well, this is odd: Is the UK’s DVD release of Avengers censored?

I’d heard rumblings about this edit a couple of weeks back, but I’ve now seen the shot playing with my own two eyes and that, as they say, is believing. There is a theory that this digital edit has been made as an act of retcon, enabling Marvel to backtrack on Coulson’s death in future movies. I’d share those suspicions, maybe, if an intact version of the film hadn’t been released in the US and elsewhere around the world.

It’s also worth pointing out that this change to the UK DVD and Blu-ray has not changed the certificate of the film. It’s still carrying the little 12 badge.

Removing the blade from Coulson’s chest is a very odd edit, yet a very deliberate one. Was there some reaction against that image when the movie was released in British theaters or something…?

In a (well-worth checking out) interview at New Statesmen, Grant Morrison talks about why he’s leaving superheroes for awhile:

I knew I was coming to the end of Action Comics in [issue] 16, I knew I was coming to the end of Batman in issue 12, of Batman Incorporated, and it just seemed like I had all this other stuff building up that was completely different from that, and it seemed like a really good time to stop doing the monthly superhero books. And also having to work with so many artists on Action Comics, it’s not that the artists are bad but I’m sometimes working for three or four guys at a time, which means you’re writing issue 14 before you’ve written issue 12 and then you’re sending in six pages of issue 13 to someone else. So it was just too hectic. I just didn’t want to do it any more.

Still catching up on news that was announced while I was gone, the mention that Chase and Nico from Runaways will be appearing in Avengers Arena (This year’s winner for most gratuitous use of the “Avengers” brand so far, I think we can all agree?) brings to mind this question: Did anyone ever attempt to address the cliffhanger from the final issue of Kathryn Immonen and Sara Pichelli’s canceled-way-too-soon run on the Runaways title? I mean, there was a seemingly-back-from-the-dead Gert, Chase was knocked over by a car, and the team had joined up with a mysterious figure who claimed to be Chase’s uncle. I know that the characters have made appearances in the three years or so since that book ended, but were any of those plot threads even acknowledged, never mind addressed, in those appearances, or will the Immonen/Pichelli run be one of those “Let’s just pretend it didn’t happen” things that happen every now and again when titles get cancelled?

(For my money, that run was the first time since Brian K. Vaughan left the book that it actually felt like it had some kind of forward momentum again. Four issues was way too short, and I still miss it.)

Seriously, comics. I go away for two days, and you let [Name of Character Who Dies in Avengers Vs. X-Men #11, Voided In Case It's A Spoiler Still] die again? Just join me under the jump so we can talk about this, okay? (more…)

X-O Manowar, the flagship title of the new Valiant Entertainment, is getting its first trade paperback collection in December 2012. The first four issues of the series are collected in the trade, at a special price of $9.99. The aggressive pricing is designed to bring more new readers into the fledgling universe, as it continues to grow with new characters, and new series, into 2013. At about $2.50 an issue, it’s a savings of almost 40% off the cover price of the first four issues separately.

The “Summer of Valiant” may be almost over, but clearly the company doesn’t plan to slow down in their re-entry into the direct market. Valiant’s official press release follows after the jump!

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The Wii U is coming in 2012, but it may not be until the final month. That’s the announcement that came late last night for Japan, as Nintendo livestreamed a press event to give a December 8, 2012 release in their native country. The basic console will cost 26,250 yen ($337; £210) and a premium edition will 31,500 yen ($405; £251), though those prices will likely not translate directly in the international markets. The new controller, fashioned as a tablet-gamepad hybrid, will run Japanese gamers 13,000 yen ($167; £104).

Join us for live coverage of the New York press event Thursday morning at 10am EDT where we’ll get all the release details for the US (and likely European) market. We’ll be back here then, so bookmark now and get that refresh button ready!

We’re settled in at a swanky NYC loft space amongst throngs of other journalists and industry representatives. There was some notable presence from Activision, Sega, Ubisoft, and EA here at the event alongside Nintendo.

And here we go. A sizzle reel of the WiiU going on tour was played before NoA President and COO Reggie Fils-Aime took the stage.

“Good morning everyone, and thanks for spending some time with us today.”

“Even with all that’s been said about WiiU so far, there are still some key questions to be answered.”

WiiU arrives in US stores in 66 days, Sunday November 18, 2012.

Reggie says the reaction as they took the WiiU on tour has been great, with people having genuinely wonderful, happy reactions.

There will be two configurations, the Basic Set is white, has the console, gamepad, an AC adapter for each, HDMI cable, Wii U Sensor Bar and 8gb of storage.

Deluxe Set has 32gb, a charging cradle, stands for both, and the game Nintendo Land, that includes sampling of all the new controls the gamepad offers. The Deluxe set also includes a special Nintendo download subscription with free and exclusive DLC (sounds a bit like PlayStation Plus at first).

Neither set comes with the Wii Remote or Nunchuck, Reggie says because they work with existing Wii ones.

The Basic is $299.99, and the Deluxe is $349.99.

“We deliberately put the big information out right off the bat, so you can sit back, relax, and enjoy yourselves,” said Reggie. “And now, let’s talk about games.”

We’re starting with NintendoLand. Kicking off, Reggie is bringing out Bill Trinen and Corey Olcsvary to show off the new Metroid area in the game.

“We think these team attractions have the depth and fun that will keep you coming back and playing, even if you consider yourself a core gamer,” said Trinen.

“Metroid Blast” was demoed, with one Mii in the classic Samus suit, using a WiiMote and Nunchuk. The other player used the new WiiU Gamepad to control a ship floating above the battle arena, helping his friend take out a variety of enemies. The player on the ground can grapple to the ship when he needs to get away. There are powerups for both ground and air.

“This is just one mission,” said Trinen, “and this is just about 8 missions in, and that’s not even half of what you’ll find in just this mode. You can play cooperatively with more than 2 players too, but you can also play solo in the air or on the ground.”

Metroid Blast will have two other modes, as well, with a ground only MP free-for-all and a ground versus air game.

Pikmiin Adventure, another NintendoLand game will be around on the floor here as well.

New Super Mario Bros U is up next, with new powerups, of course. There is also a fully interconnected map. In new “Boost Rush” mode, which actually encourages speed runs with scrolling levels that speed up as you collect coins. Youtube, here we come.

There are also challenges in the game, and MiiVerse integration so you can discuss your achievements with friends easily from within the game.

LEGO City Undercover is next up, with a special Chase McCane minifig as a preorder bonus. Trinen promises, “comedy, adventure, and fun” in that one.

Reggie retook the stage to “break for something completely different. And I mean for Nintendo something entirely different. The most different non-gaming Nintendo innovation ever.

“Today the Wii is attached to tens of millions of households, hooked up to the big screen where the family gathers. At E3 we mentioned a third pillar we called “entertainment.” Today we give its new name, NintendoTVii. For our idea to fully come to life, we had to wait for the right technology to come along. In a minute we’re going to show you a deeper look,” but first a sizzle reel.

“Find, Watch, Engage, TV Movies Sports” said the ad. The WiiU gamepad becomes a guide. You can pull up sports scores, access Netflix, Hulu Plus, Amazon, your DVR with Tivo, or directly on live tv, using your WiiU as the remote the whole time. Again, with TiVo integration, you can set your DVR from your gamepad. During a football game, the gamepad became an interactive device showing the plays that were just run, stats, and even replay clips, as well as integrated discussion through twitter. Wow, this is huge.

Now the head of the TVii project, Zach Fountain is out on stage with Reggie to show off a live demo.

Zach started with TV, the guide is a comprehensive one, that ties in all of your profiles and live TV as well. You can go to Popular, Live, Recommended, Channels, and Grid. Recommendations can come from Nintendo, or from friends.

Everything gives you full information right on screen. When he showed Modern Family, it gave access to episodes on Hulu, as well as showing the next live episode in 13 days. You can access IMDB-style info, favorite shows, see who of your friends has favorited it, and more, all from that one screen.

When he clicked one episode, he sees all of the options, Hulu+, $1.99 to own and stream from Amazon, plus the episode recorded on his TiVo.

For movies, you can watch the trailers on the gamepad so you don’t interrupt what’s up on the TV.

Now we’re on to Sports. Football, Baseball, and Basketball are shown. The first screen shows Football, specifically college, and has one large icon and several small, with scores and times all listed immediately.

A unified Search from the main screen will, once again, search all your services/devices simultaneously. Favorites can be customized to everyone in your family; five tabs were shown at once, all with their own Mii of course.

Also from the main homepage is a built-in remote, which directly accesses all of your favorite channels, it’s a cool series of rotary dials.

You can interact on Twitter and MiiVerse while watching a TV – individual scenes will be highlighted on the gamepad, plus polls, all sorts of little fun interactions.

Sports is up next, with an Alabama LSU game on the TV, while other scores, moments being captured on the side; you can see highlighted plays, access wikipedia and other databases from the gamepad to learn more about the game, very in-depth, seems they’ve thought of everything.

That’s all for NintendoTVii, rolling out in US and Canada, then expanding into the rest of the Americas. “NintendoTVii is included in every WiiU purchase at no additional cost, and no monthly fee,” Reggie finished off. “But now, let’s get back to the games.”

First up is a game from Platinum Games, Bayonetta 2. “It’s the sequel to the original Bayonetta, being directed by the producer of the original. It’s a WiiU exclusive, and will be published by Nintendo.”

Also coming from Platinum Games is a co-op action adventure game, Diablo-style with amazing cartoony graphics, now called The Wonderful 101.

“This team of heroes, their massive transformation, and the nonstop action of this alien invasion can only be found on WiiU. Next, we can confirm one more project you may have heard about. Capcom is bringing Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate to WiiU and 3DS in US and Europe. You can progress simultaneously between both platforms, too.”

Next is Activision CEO Eric Hirshberg.

Eric started with “It looks to us like this November Nintendo will once again bring a lot of freshness to the living room. We’re excited because we have a lot of great games that will help show it off. There’s more competition than ever before, but also more gamers than ever before. Video games have become the entertainment choice for a generation.

Nintendo has always focused on hardware and software being intertwined. At Activision we focus on making great games for fans around the world.”

Now a sizzle reel of titles available in the Launch Window. Skylanders Giants, Wipeout 3, James Bond: 007 Legends, Transformers Prime: The Game, were all shown in the reel.

Eric is now focusing on Skylanders Giants, which will have new controls and functionality from the Gamepad including character stats in realtime. in 007 Legends, gamers will play iconic sequences from all the movies.

And now “one more game we’re making for WiiU, wasn’t in the trailer, Call of Duty: Black Ops 2. I think what Treyarch is making this year is nothing short of the most innovative CoD game yet,” said Hirshberg. “And it looks great on the WiiU.”

A live demo was shown with Jacob and Jason from Treyarch.

The two demoers are playing with a Pro Controller and a Gamepad. The graphics are great, nearly the same level as the 360. They’re playing a multiplayer match with bots. You can actually take control of some of the aerial drones in the game. On the WiiU, you can change your loadout midgame on the touchscreen. “Treyarch had some fun figuring out ways to leverage the second screen,” assured Hirshberg. You can also use the Wii Remote and Nunchuck, so any of the three controllers.

One player can play on the gamepad’s screen in full screen while another plays on the bigscreen without any splitscreen, coop or competitively. There is of course also full online multiplayer, and a full single player campaign. And that’s it from Activision this morning.

Reggie took the stage once more. “it’s still too early to announce which games will come out on launch date and which will be in the launch window,” said Reggie, “but here’s the Launch Window from November 18 to the end of March’s lineup.”

Tons of games, 8 from Ubisoft, Sega, Namco, THQ, Activision, EA, Disney, WB Games, Majesco, D3, Tcmo Koei, Nintendo of course, and more were shown in a very quick sizzle reel. “over 50″ games in total in that nearly 5 month launch window.

“We hope you’ve enjoyed the presentation,” Reggie said, wrapping up. And that’s all for today’s live coverage. Come back to Newsarama for hands-on impressions on many of these games in the coming days. Thanks for reading!

Valiant’s Warren Simons is teasing more interconnectedness in the reborn Valiant Universe:

We just had our editorial retreat and we had Duane [Swierczynski] and Fred and Robert Venditti and Joshua Dysart up here. What’s happening for the next three months, the next six months, the next year, I can promise you should keep an eye on “Bloodshot” #6. We’ve got some key, key developments coming in that particular issue. It’s a really great question. How we introduce new characters and how we ultimately roll out the characters, but we’ve found we’re really trying to tie it into the core elements within the universe, the key points within the universe, the key points within the story itself. We’re going to be seeing a lot of that coming up in “Renegades,” which is the next arc in “Harbinger.” We’re going to be seeing it in the next arc of ‘Bloodshot’ and we’re kind of moving to a point where the strength of the Valiant Universe is going to be playing off of itself. So, you’ll see more characters interacting with them. The same way we introduced Ninjak in “X-O” #5 because we felt like it was a logical point in the story, we feel like the Eternal Warrior’s going to be in issue #5 of ‘Archer and Armstrong’ because we feel like it’s a really key moment in the universe. It’s really going to be a very important element. We’re not just throwing the characters in randomly, we’re really trying to make sure it’s an essential moment when we bring them in and there’s a real purpose behind what’s happening. I think we’ll be seeing more of both in the coming year.

I pretty much missed out on the original Valiant books way back when, so I say this without any true nostalgia, but: The new Valiant line is pretty much doing the original Marvel Comics formula right, isn’t it? The “Here are all these comics, and they all stand on their own feet, but we’ll slowly reveal the connections and crossovers between them” thing, I mean. I’ve found myself genuinely surprised by how drawn into Harbinger, Archer & Armstrong and especially Bloodshot I’ve become (X-O Manowar is taking longer to grow on me, I admit; it looks wonderful, but I didn’t really find myself digging the writing until the most recent issue – I think I wanted more dialogue and interplay), to the point where seeing the individual books mixing things up and introducing each other’s characters feels like something approaching an event.

If you’d asked me whether or not I’d call myself a Valiant fan before the relaunch, I would’ve said I didn’t think so, nor did I think it’d be that likely. But here I am, less than six months in, finding myself looking forward to meeting the Eternal Warrior, Ninjak and seeing what happens to Peter Stanchek this time around…