Valiant

Since the thirty-first century and for a thousand years thereafter, a successive line of extraordinary men have assumed the mantle of Rai, national protector of Japan. Now, with Japan shattered and Earth being conquered, one man has become the last Rai. Fighting alongside a last alliance of the future's greatest heroes, they seek to defend not a nation but the entire planet from all that would...

An eight issue series consisting of two four part stories. "Dinophobia" - Panaam, the aged mentor of Ript and Claude, is being challenged to a death duel in the sky by a younger Pteradon who intends to replace him as the high, exalted wise one. The dueling part doesn't scare him, but the flying part does. So it's up to Ript and Claude to help Panaam overcome his fear of flying. After all, who...