Comments on: Thursday WHO’S WHO: Valda (The Iron Maiden)

By: Mightygodking.com » Post Topic » Thursday WHO’S WHO: Dark Opal

Mightygodking.com » Post Topic » Thursday WHO’S WHO: Dark Opal — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 13:01:00 +0000

[...] Opal is like an evil version of Valda. (Who not coincidentally was also drawn by Ernie Colon. Man, Ernie Colon was so great.) Sometimes [...]

By: Craig Oxbrow

Craig Oxbrow — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 23:48:17 +0000

I’d pretty much forgotten about Valda, but her style may very well have informed some of my own characters.

Yay Valda!

By: MDF

MDF — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 21:15:30 +0000

I only ever read a few issues of Arak, but I loved it.

And that art rocks.

By: Garfield

Garfield — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 13:38:37 +0000

Firestorm on its worst day being somewhere late in the John Ostrander/Tom Mandrake run, I think. You know, where he stopped transmuting things, got a worse costume and starting hanging out with African gods. I believe it was collected in the trade paperback entitled Somebody Cancel Me Already.

By: John Seavey

John Seavey — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 10:43:00 +0000

It’s a great drawing overall, really. Ernie Colon instantly conveys personality, charm, and fighting spirit (and as mentioned, avoids many of the sexist tropes of fantasy heroines, which is always a major plus.) I’d read a comic about her.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 06:39:43 +0000

After seeing those terrible images of Rose McGowan all Sin City’d for Red Sonja I couldn’t agree more.

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 23:36:20 +0000

They look like tights to me, not leather pants.

Someone’ll probably forget to draw them and she’ll bhe wearing a chainmail minidress.

By: jeffwik

jeffwik — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 21:36:47 +0000

Pshaw. May I point you to exhibit A: “mistress of the knightly arts,” exhibit B “Occupation: Knight,” and exhibit C: honking big-ass zweihander? Anyone comes at Valda with a fridge they’d better have an extended warranty.

Extended warranty? See, because she’d break it, and normally the extended warranty is for suckers, so…

By: Justin Mohareb

Justin Mohareb — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 19:42:35 +0000

Yeah, but the issue where Arak came home and found her in the icebox was such a downer.

By: Lister Sage

Lister Sage — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:57:10 +0000

I can already see the slash fiction.

By: jeffwik

jeffwik — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:46:12 +0000

Huh….She’s like Shining Knight, only a girl (carefully ignoring the fact that the current Shining Knight is also a girl) and cute. I like Shining Knight. Too bad neither character gets their own book. She needs something to differentiate herself a little more from Shining Knight. There are a few more differences, but there could be more distinguishing differences.

The current Shining Knight is all emo; Valda here is clearly anything but with that bright smile. They’d make a great team-up.

By: Will

Will — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 17:02:30 +0000

She looks perky and gorgeous and has a knife in her boot. All of this is awesome. So is her hair.

By: John W

John W — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 16:53:12 +0000

She’s very adorable, although I wouldn’t tell her that while she’s swinging that sword around.

By: Joysweeper

Joysweeper — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 16:28:30 +0000

I always love seeing heroines in practical wear – no high heels, no miniskirts, not wearing what looks like a swimsuit or fetishgear, with hair that isn’t incredibly long and unbound… (Seriously. Even if it’s not-quite-shoulderlength, you can’t so much as ride in a window-down car with unbound hair and expect it to not blind you and get tangled) I mean, I think I’m used to all that by now, but I still love seeing practical wear.

By: Joysweeper

Joysweeper — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 16:27:41 +0000

She’s even got short hair!