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never really appreciated the character of Gilad, the Eternal Warrior, Every time he pops up in other Valiant books, I felt he was alright, but for a guy that's supposed to be the greatest fighter in the world due to his millennia of experience, you never really saw him do much.
He was kinda meh. But this right here THIS is an Eternal Warrior showcase! When he takes out all of his teammates in Unity like he was spanking little kids, I finally got a sense of the badass he is! Like, where you been hidin them skills at bruh!
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Just the way that sitelinkBloodshot Reborn is the sequel to the Bloodshot events of The Valiant, this book can be seen as the followup to the Eternal Warrior events from that same book.
So it's good to have read sitelinkThe Valiant prior to this, This book reads as the biggest event in the Valiant universe since Armor Hunters, as Gilad and Tama, the Geomancer from the future, race to stop this era's Geomancer from being corrupted by an outside force into ending all life on Earth.
The key lies in a book that Tama brought from the future, a book that foretells the fate of all of Earth's heroes: the Book of Death.
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This was pretty epic and very exciting in my opinion it felt more realized than The Valiant event that this spun out of.
It was bittersweet watching Gilad and Tama form a father/daughter relationship that feels doomed from the start, especially when they read from the Book of Death.
The reveal of who is behind the Corrupted One is pretty epic as well if you're familiar with other Valiant stories.
But what made this really compelling were the chapters here from the Book that detail the future fall of some of our favorite Valiant heroes, like the psiot Renegades, Harada, XO Manowar, Ninjak, Livewire, and Bloodshot.
Each story is written by the writer of the character's respective series and thus the last hurrahs feel totally different and each one fits their particular character well.
This was a cool event and I can't wait to see how this impacts the rest of the Valiant line as I continue making my way through it.
"In contests of life and death, survival does not always mean victory, Only that there is a chance to fight again, And again. And again
For the Eternal Warrior, there is forever another day, Forever another battle. And hopefully, victory at last, "
This deluxe edition includes the main miniseries: sitelink
and it's series of oneshots: sitelink Book of Death is a Valiant crossover that is somewhat awkwardly split in two.
On the one hand, we have the core Book of Death, It's the story of a Geomancer with a prophetic book from the future and how it may help to prevent the ultimate corruption of the earth by a Geomancer gone wrong.
Though we've seen the fightthefuture trope many a time in comics, going back to "Days of Future Past", this one has a couple of things going for it.
First, it rather magnificently mashes up two of the main forces in the Valiant universe: Geomancy and the Deadside, Second, like most Valiant crossovers, it offers real consequences, In some ways, this all feels like a retread of The Valiant because of its similar focus on the Eternal Warrior and Geomancy.
Still, it's a fun event/,
The other half of the Book of Death is a series of "Fall" stories that tell the final fates of various Valiant heroes:
Bloodshot.
Lemire gives us true scope, and rather delightfully puts Bloodshot into the roles of missing VHheroes as he becomes Robot Fighter and Dinosaur Killer.
But Bloodshot's final fall. . that's amazing, in parts shocking and tear wrenching/,
Ninjak. Despite its name, Kindt really gives us a final story for Unity, and it's a strong one, investigating the relationships between its three final members.
This is a wonderfully somber character piece about legacies, There are also rather nice future connections to Rai, Unfortunately, it gets a little muddy in the last couple of pages/
Harbinger, Dysart indeed gives us the endings for the entire Harbinger family, and those endings are meaningful and touching.
The core story about Peter, meanwhile,
is Dysart's sciencefiction at its best, An appropriate ending for the series/,
XO Manowar, The amazing thing about these "Fall" stories is that they aren't dystopias, They're inevitability full of hopes and possibilities and that may be the truest of XO Manowar, Of all the Valiant comics, XO focuses the most on legacies, so that's where this Fall comic goes as well.
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The somewhat awkward part of this book is the question of its relevancy, If these deaths all happen within the chronology of the Book of Death future, then they're irrelevant, because that's theoretically averted.
So what's the point of reading them However if they're instead an alternative universe that's still the future of VHE.
. . then why were they mashed up with the Book of Death crossover
I suppose we should just appreciate these four stories on their own, because they're generally quite good.
.rounded up to.
for the main Gilaad amp Tama storyline,
for the "Fall of " stories throughout, The best part for me was likely the last stories, The main story is a typical action romp, So let it be written, . . So let it be done, . .
From New York Times bestselling writers Robert Venditti XO Manowar, Matt Kindt Divinity, Jeff Lemire The Valiant, Joshua Dysart Imperium and a powerhouse roster of allstar artists comes the blockbuster crossover event that will forge the future of the Valiant Universe collected in its entirety for the first time anywhere!
The Valiant heroes.
XO Manowar. Bloodshot. Ninjak. The Harbinger Renegades. Unity. This is how they lived, This is how they died,
Now we know, The Book of the Geomancer has recorded it all, But only a young girl the last in a line of the enigmatic mystics who protect the Earth known as Geomancers has seen this future come to pass, from the coming cataclysm to the
dawn of thest century.
Alone with her sworn protector, the Eternal Warrior a soldier battle forged across five thousand years of combat the duo must defy their allies to stop the Dark Age that now threatens to eclipse our world.
Together, they are the number one target of every hero and villain on Earth, Either the Eternal Warrior hands her overor they take him down, But can even he singlehandedly protect one child when the entire Valiant Universe wages war against him
Collecting: Book of Death, The Fall of Bloodshot, The Fall of Ninjak, The Fall of Harbinger, amp The Fall of XO Manowar.