In honor of Valiant's 25th Anniversary, we're counting down your picks for the twenty-five greatest Valiant Comics stories.

You all voted, now here are the final results!

Enjoy!

5. "Armor Hunters" (Armor Hunters #1-4, Unity #8-11, X-O Manowar #26-29, Armor Hunters: Harbinger #1-3, Armor Hunters: Bloodshot #1-3)

Robert Vendetti has done an excellent job so far in his time as the writer of X-O Manowar in exploring the notion of unintended consequences, sort of like a larger scale version of The Butterfly Effect. Aliens kidnap Aric and his people, Aric escapes with the X-O Manowar armor. They come after him. He comes after them. He takes his people back. He tries to find land for his people on Earth. This leads to war. And this leads to the Armor Hunters coming for Aric. The Armor Hunters are a crack squad of alien beings who, well, hunt down X-O Manowar armor. They feel like they are doing what the galaxy needs and if they have to crush a planet in the process, well, that's just what they'll have to do...

Naturally, such a threat causes the entire Valiant Universe of heroes to come together to fight off the invaders, primarily X-O Manowar's team, Unity (Ninjak, Eternal Warrior and Livewire). Bloodshot ends up playing a major role in the series, whose main comic was drawn by Doug Braithwaite.

4. "THE VALIANT" (THE VALIANT #1-4)

Jeff Lemire, Matt Kindt and Paolo and Joe Rivera combine to tell this epic tale spanning the Valiant Universe. A being known as the Immortal Enemy has shown up - its whole purpose in life is to kill the Geomancer, the beings connected to the Earth who are here to help the world (and Eternal Warrior has been tasked with protecting them). The Eternal Warrior has failed to protect a Geomancer from the Immortal Enemy three times before and each time it led to a terrible dark era. Now the Immortal Enemy is back, and the Eternal Warrior teams up with Bloodshot to protect the current Geomancer, Kay McHenry, as well as Kay's predestined successor (who is only a kid).

Along the way, they get help from various Valiant heroes, like X-O Manowar, Armstrong and Ninjak.

The art, as you can see, is spectacular...

The key relationship in the book turns out to be between Kay and the "man" known as Bloodshot, who hasn't really been a man in years.

Read on to the next page for #3-1!

3. "Alpha and Omega" (Solar, Man of the Atom #1-10)

Barry Windsor-Smith had already shown that he was an accomplished serial storyteller with his classic Weapon X series in the pages of Marvel Comics Presents, but he really took it to another level with "Alpha and Omega," a serialized story in the pages of Solar, Man of the Atom #1-10, written by Jim Shooter and Barry Windsor-Smith and drawn by Windsor-Smith and Bob Layton. As the main Solar book continued by Jim Shooter, Don Perlin and Tom Ryder, this insert series told the origin of Solar, Man of the Atom. It begins with him surviving a meltdown at the fusion reactor he was in charge of ("Maybe I'll just go bang on things with a wrench") and things get...weird...

And as the series goes on, things get weirder and weirder...

Eventually, his universe is destroyed and he ends up in Solar, Man of the Atom #1. It's all quite dark stuff, but also so striking. Man, Barry Windsor-Smith is a genius.

2. "Harbinger Wars" (Harbinger Wars #1-4, Harbinger #11-14, Bloodshoot #10-13)

Harbinger Wars was not the first crossover in the new Valiant Universe, but it might very well be the most intricate, as writers Joshua Dysart and Duane Swierczynski balance plots from both of their individual series (Harbinger and Bloodshot, respectively) along with the main plot that drives the story, which is a group of superpowered kids (called "Psiots") and teens escape from the Harbinger Foundation and they are wanted by Toyo Harada and his Harbinger Foundation, the people behind the Anti-Harada Project Rising Spirit (who aren't exactly good guys, either) and Pete Stanchek and his team of renegade "Psiots".

First off, I don't know who came up with the power for this one Psiot, but whoever it is, Dysart or Swiercynski, you're a genius...

Bloodshot, though, realizes that he can't bring these kids back to Project Rising Spirit, so he breaks free (after a devastating fight with Toyo Harada that leaves Bloodshot more skeleton than man) that leads to PRS to bring the HARD Corps back on line - soldiers who can temporarily access Psiot powers, although the result might damage their bodies to the point of, well, death.

Dysart and Swierczynski juggle so many balls that it is a marvel to their talent that the whole series makes sense. Clayton Henry (and Clayton Crain, for a little bit) does a great job on art.

This story arc resulted in a dramatic change in focus for Bloodshot's title (as it became Bloodshot and HARD Corps).

1. "Unity" (Unity #0-1, Eternal Warrior Vol.1 #1-2, Archer and Armstrong Vol.1 #1-2, Magnus, Robot Fighter Vol.2 #15-16, X-O Manowar Vol.1 #7-8, Shadowman Vol.1 #4-5, Rai Vol.1 #6-7, Harbinger Vol.1 #8-9 and Solar, Man of the Atom Vol.1 #12-13)

Unity is a stunning crossover, because if there's one thing that everyone can agree on about Jim Shooter, it is that the guy really knows how to coordinate things, so when he was given the chance to do an EIGHTEEN-PART crossover, he took to it magnificently, as he and Bob Layton were plotting pretty much every book at the time, so despite the story taking place in nine different books, it really reads like one cohesive story.

I really love the driving force of the story, took, as Erica Pierce is a glaring example of the bad things that Solar did in his previous universe - his mistakes coming home to roost. Pierce might be a "bad guy," but she didn't start out that way - Solar practically drove her to this point, so I like that touch.

And, of course, Barry Windsor-Smith's art on the bookends (with inks by Layton) is stunning...

Think about this - the various characters involved in Unity came from various time lines, so the way that Shooter was able to use the Lost Land to tie them all together into one narrative was striking.

At the same time, each of the individual parts of the crossover still got issues that read like they were issues of their own titles. It is almost staggering the level of difficulty involved in telling a cohesive eighteen-part crossover while still having each of the titles FEEL like they were part of their individual series. It's an incredible storytelling feat by Shooter and Layton.

Plus, lots of people fighting dinosaurs. That can't be bad, right?

That's the list, folks! Agree? Disagree? Let us know!