Rai the History of the Valiant Universe #1 is the perfect starting point for someone unfamiliar with their titles. Valiant’s comics are entrenched in history, they are complicated, and sometimes intertwined.

The Terminator comic has seen the killer machines travel back to many significant moments in US and world history. One was sent to the Vietnam War, one infiltrated a Russian submarine in 1961, and another made its way into space on the first Apollo mission that same year. Most recently, a Terminator traveled to a concentration camp in World War II.

Plague House started out as a story about three ghosthunters investigating a house where the father had killed his entire family. But this isn’t a four or five-issue story set inside that house. It’s becoming much more complex.