Alien Books - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com The comics criticism you crave Sun, 24 Aug 2025 11:56:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://i0.wp.com/comicsxf.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/cropped-orange-favicon-2.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Alien Books - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com 32 32 107498702 EDITORIAL: Transphobic Bloodshot panels are what we get when we put IP over story, creators https://comicsxf.com/2025/08/24/editorial-bloodshot-valiant/ Sun, 24 Aug 2025 10:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=53861 I read Valiant Beyond: Bloodshot #1 after the panels of thinly veiled transphobic content surfaced online Friday. The cover promises “New Origin, New Universe, New Starting Point.” Because when comics’ biggest hits are DC’s Absolute books and Marvel’s Ultimate books, why not do the same?  The comic is nothing I would have sought out had...

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]]> 53861 Valiant goes BEYOND for Ultimate-style universe reboot this spring https://comicsxf.com/2024/12/18/valiant-beyond/ Wed, 18 Dec 2024 17:30:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=51158 In the beginning, there was the Ultimate Universe, and people saw that it was good. Then there was the Energon Universe, and people saw those Daniel Warren Johnson panels of robots doing suplexes and they were all, “YO, THIS RIPS!” Then there was the Absolute Universe, and people are still waiting for Al Ewing and...

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]]> 51158 The CXF Interview Podcast Episode 323: Matias Timarchi talks Valiant Comics and Alien Books https://comicsxf.com/2024/10/08/tcxfip-323-matias-timarchi/ Tue, 08 Oct 2024 12:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=50378 The ComicsXF Interview Podcast · The CXF Interview Podcast Episode 323: Matias Timarchi talks Valiant Comics and Alien Books Alien Books Director Matias Timarchi joins the show to talk about his publisher and its licensing of Valiant Comics. You can listen to The ComicsXF Interview Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Spotify, YouTube, Amazon Music, Audible and at ComicsXF.com, where...

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]]> 50378 Prepare for the Resurgence of Valiant in our EXCLUSIVE preview of The Darques: Soulside #2 https://comicsxf.com/2024/09/09/valiant-darques-soulside-2-preview/ Mon, 09 Sep 2024 19:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=50069 So you may not know this, but the Valiant Universe is back … again! After the COVID-19 pandemic slowed the publisher’s release schedule to a crawl of about a comic a month, a licensing deal last year with international publisher Alien Books has breathed new life into the shared superhero universe, and it’s all building...

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