It's an all-out brawl to the death here. Every instance of sabotage and adventure leads to fights like these. The kind that carry over from one issue into another. And the outcome will not surprise readers, but will certainly give a shock of what direction the overall story is heading. Highly recommended and encouraged to be read. Read Full Review

This is a book that everyone should be buying and reading. Without a doubt, this is the BEST book that Valiant is currently putting out. Read Full Review

Christos Gageclearly wanted to let the artists shine, and in doing that they pull a comic that suffers in the plot department into must buy territory; Gage's plot could easily be simplified down into a single line (but then if you can breakLord Of The Ringsdown to "people walk a long way to return stolen property" you can break everything down quite a bit, so this is a meaningless criticism, and I am aware of that). But it's a single line that brings back one of my favourite Valiant characters, sets up an interesting new faction in the Valiant Universe and leaves our hero surprisingly vulnerable while providing some freaking amazing visual set pieces. Read Full Review

The last half of the issue struggles a bit to deal with what happens in the first half, but overall it's a solid issue and sets up the coming devastation that is the Harbinger Wars II. Read Full Review

The Livewire Ninjak relationship continues to be the book's foundation though, which is even more impressive considering the small amount of page real estate it encompasses. Read Full Review

On paper the teams involved make this feel like it should have been an epic cross-over. This includes leaving out the major character return, but it's brief nature can't give it the scope it deserves. Again, given the cast, this should have been as big, if not bigger than HW2. It's not and the only hope I have for this arc is that given the ending, this story may not be done yet, just put on the back burners as we go back into the Ninja program and deal with Ninja-H. The series until this arc has been absolutely stellar and I hope it gets back to that. Read Full Review

I've been really blessed to have a nice run of comics to review. I tend to lose motivation when books are middling or don't really sustain my interest. Ninja-K #10 is another solid issue in the Christo's Gage run from 2018. Gage's name doesn't come up enough when mentioning the greatest writers working today but he's definitely up there. In addition to this series. He's worked on the Daredevil Netflix series as well as Spider-Man on PS4. It literally pains me that series like this flew so far under the radar especially considering all the talent involved. I'd love to see Gage reboot a series like the New Warriors, Generation X or hell even Batman. Not telling if any of these wishes will ever come true but he has a fan for life here.

This issue concludes the arc pitting Ninja-K and his team Vs the Coalition. The battle rages the entire issue and both sides get cool moments beautifully rendered by Juan Jose Ryp and Jordie Bellaire (Britannia). I complain a lot about comics that don't take advantage of their status as a visual medium. This leads to a lot of books that read okay but aren't really appealing to the eye. Juan doesn't have that problem. Every page is hard-hitting, dynamic and works well in conjunction with the fast-paced script.

Punk Mamba, LiveWire, Dr. Mirage are all cool characters and benefit from being put in the forefront of this arc. They all have had series released since this issue hit stands and I'm guessing that this story was the catalyst for their integration into the Valiant Universe. There is a lot of humor and banter between the characters without being overbearing or pretentious.

As far as the plot there isn't much to speak of. There is a lot of back and forth action between the heroes and villains. It's glorious, but if you're looking for something deep like House of X you won't find that here. That's not a knock on the issue. It's an entertaining read from beginning to end and has enough going for itself that you won't feel like you're being cheating in regards to the content.

There is a satisfying resolution to the story and I can't wait to get into what will probably be the last arc of the series.

It's very strange to me that all of the series that I followed in 2018 have been canceled. When this issue was released I had several Valiant books on my pull list now I have none. I can't put my finger on why, but nothing I've seen this year has interested me. I promised myself I'd finish this series and Jeff Lemire's Bloodshot Salvation because they were just that damn good.

I hope to get back into Valiant soon but in its hard to get excited about the current titles knowing that these creators are no longer involved. more