Does anyone here remember Valiant comics?
I feel really old now. I'm only 30 years old, though.
Yesterday, I was in my local comic shop buying the newest Savage Dragon and I engaged in comic talk with the regulars, the regulars being a lot of high school kids and younger kids, for that matter.
Bloodshot, Geomancer, The Second life of Dr. Mirage, Shadowman, Solar, Turok, Ninjak, Magnus..........
I even remember buying the bloodcurdling Image/Valiant crossover event "Deathmate".
Valiant went belly up somewhere in 1999 after a failed merge, I believe, with Acclaim Comics.
So, anyway, every one of these 18 and unders just gave me a blank stare when I mention all of this to them. One of them says, "Turok, the video game character?" I just hung my head and said yes. The only two people who knew what I was talking about were the comic shop owner and another older patron who I went to school with.
Go figure.