By Zack Quaintance — Plain and simple, Rai #1 reminds me of a better time for Valiant. It reminds me of the 4001 AD event of a few years back, which came before the leadership change that resulted in the ouster of long-time Valiant creative leader Dinesh Shamdasani, which is a personnel change that in my opinion the publisher has never quite recovered from. But I digress. For the unfamiliar, 4001 AD ran during the summer of 2016, and it told the story of future Earth in which the mostly-privileged lived in the island nation of Japan, which is ruled by a benevolent AI called Father.