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Message: <blockquote data-quote="fanboy2000" data-source="post: 5883886" data-attributes="member: 19998">The Valiant that existed in the '90s no longer exists. I believe that someone's reviving the brand right now, but it's not the same company.Dark Horse is the old of the three you mentioned, and it's survived on the strength of it's licensing. They've always had good indy stuff, but it was Aliens and Predator that kept them going for a while. Then they hit the jack pot with Star Wars and they've never looked back since.Image has actual superhero titles, but they have a lot more than that. Also, because the idea behind Image was that work would be creator owned, some of the stuff has been bought out by DC. I.e., DC bought Jim Lee's Windstorm which used to be part of Image. I think it's telling that one of the most successful people at Image, Todd McFarlane, is probably more known for his toys than his comic book output now.Most indy publishers follow Dark Horse's example and use licensing to keep their creator/company owned properties afloat. IDW has Transformers, G.I. Joe, and Star Trek to keep it afloat, for example. By and large, superhero comics are the domain of Marvel and DC though. Archie's superhero comics stopped existing decades ago, though there have been periodic attempts to revisit them. Other companies were bought out by DC. DC used to have a separate continuity, or Earth, for each one. But now their all part of the same continuity.</blockquote>