MISSION: IMPROBABLE - PART ONE! Archer & Armstrong at war with Bloodshot and H.A.R.D Corps! (GULP.) That's right, Valiant's swashbuckling adventure duo have been targeted for elimination by Project Rising Spirit's most elite kill crew. Their mission? Elimainte Obadiah Archer - or die trying. Hot off the secret revelations of Archer #0, the fight of the year begins right here in the landmark first issue of this special four-part crossover event! [(W) Fred Van Lente (A) Pere Perez (CA) Lewis LaRosa]
Under siege and out of control! The Harbinger Renegades are still reeling from a tragic death in their ranks, but in the face of monumental destruction they'll find unlikely allies in a fellow group of super-powerful teenagers. But is Generation Zero here to helpor are they just looking out for themselves? Join New York Times best-selling writer Joshua Dysart (Harbinger) and rising star Robert Gill (Batgirl) as the breakout stars of last summer's HARBINGER WARS - the volatile psiot strike force known as Generation Zero - step out of the shadows and into the crosshairs of a devastating extraterrestrial attack! Collecting Armor Hunters: Harbinger #1-3, plus the landmark first appearance of Generation Zero from Harbinger Wars #1.
MISSION: IMPROBABLE - PART TWO! Project Rising Spirit has sent Bloodshot and H.A.R.D. Corps, their all-or-nothing paramilitary team, after a rogue asset - an assassin-turned-leader of a global fundamentalist terror sect - and his immortal bodyguard. And their names just happen to beArcher & Armstrong! Do Bloodshot and the steely killers of the H.A.R.D. Corps stand a chance against a teenager and a big sweaty drunk? The answer may surprise you! [(W) Christos N. Gage, Joshua Dysart (A) Tom Raney (CA) Lewis LaRosa]
MISSION: IMPROBABLE-FINALE! Bloodshot! Archer! H.A.R.D. Corps! Armstrong! It all comes down to this!Mission: Improbable rockets into its explosive climax as four world-shattering forces collide! Will Bloodshot re-capture Archer for Project Rising Spiritor is a double-cross in the works?! Will H.A.R.D. Corps figure out how you kill an immortal like Armstrongor are they going home in body bags? Only one thing's for certainit doesn't matter who loses - you win! [(W) Christos N. Gage, Joshua Dysart (A) Tom Raney (CA) Lewis LaRosa]
90s tech. Bad attitudes. No wifi. It's Valiant's 21st-century shock troops - head-to-head against Project Rising Spirit's first wave of superhuman specialists! With a valuable oil pipeline in dire peril, Bloodshot and the expendable commandos of H.A.R.D. Corps are headed to Africa to bring down a network of terrorist saboteurs. But as Bloodshot digs into the multinational oil conglomerate he's been brought in to protect, he'll soon find himself confronted by the complex truth behind the terror - and up close and personal with an older, scrappier, more grizzled generation of wet-wired soldier from the glory days of proxy wars and state-sponsored assassination. Collecting Bloodshot And H.A.R.D. Corps #18-19, Bloodshot And H.A.R.D. Corps: H.A.R.D. Corps #0, and Bloodshot And H.A.R.D. Corps #22-23, don't miss a single shot fired as acclaimed creators Christos Gage (Superior Spider-Man), Joshua Dysart (Harbinger Wars) and Duffy Boudreau (BlackAcre) partner with an all-star cast of top talents - including Bart Sears (X-O Manowar), ChrisCross (Superman/Batman) and Al Barrionuevo (The Authority) - for a brutal, globe-spanning cavalcade of missions from the classified archives of Project Rising Sprit and beyond. [(W) Christos N. Gage & Various (A) Bart Sears & Various (CA) Lewis LaRosa]
A murderer's row of comic talents - Peter Milligan (Hellblazer), Duane Swierczynski (Birds of Prey), B. Clay Moore (JSA: The Liberty Files), Howard Chaykin (American Flagg), Lewis LaRosa (Punisher MAX), Manuel Garcia (Black Widow), and many more - come together for a collection of stories from throughout the bullet-riddled history of Valiant's most brutal and relentless hero! Meet the man behind Bloodshot - or is he? - when one soldier's untapped killer instinct takes over in The Glitch! Then, Russian superpies don't die easy as Sleepers takes Bloodshot deep into the biting cold of a former Soviet state and face to face with an enemy eerily similar to himself. Plus: the origin of Bloodshot retold, Howard Chaykin's Protocol, and much more! Collecting Bloodshot #24, the oversized Bloodshot #25 anniversary extravaganza, and an exclusive Director's Cut of Bloodshot #1 - featuring a never-before-seen, behind-the-scenes look inside the script, art, and character designs of the blockbuster first issue that set Bloodshot in motion!
Is the Eternal Warrior finally out of time?Every moment in the centuries-long life of Gilad Anni-Padda has led to this moment. Far removed from the modern day, standing resolute at the last tattered edge of the civilization, the Eternal Emperor of 4001 A.D. is about to make the hardest choice of all - and two thousand years of Valiant heroes will feel the fallout. Don't miss a moment as the very first vision of Valiant's all-new future timeline reaches a milestone turning point! [(W) Greg Pak (A) Robert Gill (CA) Lewis LaRosa]
Fist and steel, blood and bone. Gilad Anni-Padda is the Earth's sworn championbut he is not its only immortal defender. Across the globe, the rival Houses have gathered to declare war on the Earth and its Eternal Warrior and, finally, their vengeance will be wrought. Can Gilad withstand the swords gathered at his door? A battle thousands of years in the making will be fought todayand even the bravest warriors must fall sometime [(W) Greg Pak / (A) Trevor Hairsine / (CA) Lewis Larosa, Mico Suayan]
Cold war no more! Peter Stanchek. Toyo Harada. The two most destructive superpowers in the world - literally - have come to a reckoning of will, and in the fallout of their cataclysmic con?ict, each will come to grips with a world in which the other is freeand unchecked. Their former families, the Harbinger Foundation and the Renegades, lie in shards around them. What will stop these men - either of them - from reducing the world to ashes? Jump on board the convention-defying series that the Onion/A.V. Club calls the crown jewel of Valiant's line-up as New York Times best-selling writer Joshua Dysart and red-hot artists Rafa Sandoval, Khari Evans, Mico Suayan, and Stephen Segovia close the door on one generation of Harbinger Renegadesand prepare the foundation for another. Collecting HARBINGER: OMEGAS #1-3 and HARBINGER: BLEEDING MONK #0.
The last stand of Colin King! Colin King, the elite MI-6 intelligence operative codenamed Ninjak, has confronted his past. He's survived the gauntlet of the Shadow Seven. He's walked into the Deadside and returned a changed man. Now his greatest trial yet will come to pass as the ruthless assassin called Roku returns to lay siege to Ninjak's present and future by destroying his life from the insideout - and only the death of Colin King will stop her. New York Times best-selling writer Matt Kindt (DIVINITY) and rising star Diego Bernard (X-O MANOWAR) charge into a new blockbuster story that will leave no one unscathed! Collecting NINJAK #14-17.
Every master spy... has to start somewhere. Then: Meet inexperienced MI-6 recruit Colin King on his first mission in the field as he learns the basics of spycraft and counterintelligence, and develops a volatile relationship with his first handler. Now: Colin King is Ninjak, the world's foremost intelligence operative, weapons expert, and master assassin. And he's hunting the Shadow Seven - a secret cabal of shinobi masters with mysterious ties to his training and tragic past. Start reading here as Ninjak's past and future collide in the pages of an all-new ongoing series from New York Times best-selling writer Matt Kindt (THE VALIANT, DIVINITY) and superstar artists Clay Mann (Gambit), Butch Guice (Captain America), and Juan José Ryp (Black Summer). Collecting Ninjak #1-5.
Fifteen years ago, the world's most famous soccer star and his former supermodel wife - pregnant with their unborn child - disappeared without a trace. The world believes they are dead? But, in reality, their private jet crash-landed on a mysterious, unknown island ruled by prehistoric creatures from another time? This is the story of how they lost their humanity. Acclaimed writer B. Clay Moore (Aloha, Hawaiian Dick), and explosive artists Clayton Henry (Archer & Armstrong) and Lewis LaRosa (Bloodshot Reborn) present a relentless epic of survival in a cold-blooded land ruled by instinct alone in the must-read debut of Valiant's next major hero! Collecting SAVAGE #1-4.
WHO ARE...THE UNITED? A new day has dawned for the elite assemblage of heroes called UNITY, and, in the wake of the Armor Hunters' invasion, the time has come to grow their ranks. Who will be the next fearless hero to join the roster of the world's most elite superteam? And just what is the international strike force called THE UNITED - and why have they marked UNITY's own X-O Manowar, Ninjak, Livewire, and Eternal Warrior for elimination? Join New York Times bestselling writers Matt Kindt and Joshua Dysart, and red hot artists CAFU, Cary Nord and Robert Gill as they look back with the Eternal Warrior to the trenches of WW I and the top secret missions of Unit-Y before detonating the planet's first superteam vs. superteam war right here with a bold new beginning for UNITY! Collecting UNITY #12-14, UNITY #0, and Harbinger: Faith #0.
New York Times best-selling writer Matt Kindt (THE VALIANT, RAI) and Harvey Award nominee Pere Pérez (ARCHER & ARMSTRONG) rebuild the world's most elite super-team one member at a time! The United have left Unity decimated - a member lost, a terrible secret revealed, and the entire world turned against them. Not Harada, not Dr. Silk, not even the mighty Armor Hunters left the team as fractured as this! Now, Unity must decide where their place is in this new world and whether they will stand together or fall apart. Start reading here as Valiant superstars Kindt and Pérez lead the world's most elite superteam into a concussive showdown that will leave its members reeling...and rebuild Unity one hero at a time! Collecting Unity #15-18.
Filled cover to cover with some of the most groundbreaking art in present day comics, the second installment of this enthralling series sees Thacker and Ferris jump from 2090 Copenhagen to 1938 Nazi Germany. As the story leaps backward toward the stunning finale, will bitter enemies remain just that, or is there more to their murderous and time-transcending relationship? The hotly-anticipated second act of the time-traveling modern masterpiece by artist Lee Bermejo (Batman: Damned) and writer Mattson Tomlin (The Batman: Part II), perfect for fans of BRZRKR and Time Before Time, will leave fans breathless!
Hail to the emperor! With his throne attained and his enemies defeated, Aric of Dacia is not only the undisputed emperor of the war-shattered world of Gorin He is one of the most feared warlords in the known galaxy! But as this former hero of Earth grows more confident with each brutal campaign, he'll soon discover that his greatest enemy ishimself. Can Aric and the ultra-powerful X-O Manowar armor that he wields peacefully sustain such unyielding amounts of power...or will the thirst for war inside him consume everything he's fought for? New York Times best-selling writer Matt Kindt (Eternity, Dept. H), and superstar artist Clayton Crain (4001 A.D.) crown the final chapter of Emperor here as Valiant's chart-topping interstellar opus challenges the cosmos itself!
The ultimate turning point! A war has been won, a victory has been decided...and, now, an entire alien world kneels before the throne of their new leader: the unstoppable X-O Manowar! He has traded his armor for a crown and a new age now begins...even as an extraterrestrial invader readies an interplanetary attack that could pull Aric of Dacia from the newfound safety of his imperial palace and back into the blood-sodden battlefields where his conquest began. Comics superstar Clayton Crain (4001 A.D., Rai) joins New York Times best-selling writer Matt Kindt (Rapture, Mind MGMT) to summit the next pinnacle of 2017's best-selling independent superhero series - and unleash a blistering, new interstellar opus chronicling the most powerful moment yet in the history of Valiant's unrelenting icon! Collecting X-O Manowar (2017) #7-9.
DEAD HAND means death! Dead Hand: Part 2-In the far reaches of deep space, the ultimate fail-safe of an extinct alien race has finally counted down to zeroand the robot army called DEAD HAND has been activated. The civilization that built them has fallen...and, now, to combat the doomsday threat that destroyed their world, DEAD HAND will complete the mission that their creators could not. Soulless and brutal, this billion strong legion is the phantom army of a dead worldand it will cleanse the universe by any means necessary. But what unthinkable menace were they created to destroy? And will DEAD HAND's slow march across the galaxy spell death for countless worlds? Soon, Aric of Dacia will be forced to confront the secrets that have pushed him to the terrible turning point that is DEAD HANDand battle a single-minded killing machine unlike any he has seen before! Outmatched and vastly outnumbered, how can Aric stop something unstoppablesomething that knows no fear, only eradication?
WAR IS COMING! Born under the oppressive thumb of the Roman Empire, Aric of Dacia learned warfare at an early age. It was amid such violence that he was abducted by an alien race. Forced into slavery, he survived where others perished. His escape would come from bonding with a weapon of immeasurable power: the X-O Manowar armor. With it, he returned to Earth... only to find himself stranded in the modern day. But that was a lifetime ago. Now, far from home on a strange and primitive new world, Aric has begun a new life. Liberated from his past, he tends to his crops. Free from war. Free from violence. Free from the armor. But the machinery of death marches his way once again. Conscripted into an alien army and thrown into an unforgiving conflict, the fury inside him finds voice as he is forced to embrace the armor once more. With it, he will decimate armies, topple empires and incite interplanetary warfare as he rises from SOLDIER to GENERAL to EMPEROR to VISIGOTH. They wanted a weapon. He will give them war! Join master storytellers Matt Kindt (Divinity) and Tomás Giorello (Bloodshot Reborn) right here for a stunning new beginning for Valiant's most enduring icon. Collecting X-O MANOWAR (2017) #1-3 with more than 30 pages of rarely seen artand extras!
In the fires of victory, a soldier becomes... a general. With the hostile Cadmium army crushed beneath his force's boots, Aric of Dacia now commands an entire fleet into the final battle for the soul of an empire. But as a new dawn rises across this unrelenting alien world, what vicious new menace will come forth to greet it? X-O Manowar's path to domination darkens as blockbuster artist Doug Braithwaite (Armor Hunters) joins New York Times best-selling writer Matt Kindt (Mind MGMT) for the perfect planet-shaking continuation of Valiant's biggest series yet!
Aric of Dacia's bone-crushing climb to the throne of an alien world earned him scores of alliesand a legion of scorned enemies. Now, stripped of his crown and cast out of his kingdom, the man known as X-O Manowar must return to his roots as a sword-wielding warrior of Earth if he is to survive the relentless band of intergalactic bounty hunters that have been hired to kill him cold. But with few places left to turn, could the last Visigoth's best hope be the all-powerfulbut insidiousweapon he once swore away: the X-O Manowar armor? X-O Manowar's whirlwind first year in the Valiant Universe comes to a climax here in a bold new volume from New York Times best-selling writer Matt Kindt (Divinity, Mind MGMT) and explosive artist Ryan Bodenheim (The Dying & The Dead)!
A battle-scarred mission from Aric of Dacia's youth Before space... Before the armor... Return to the apex of the Visigoth conquest as a younger, brasher Aric and a sword-wielding grifter set off on a continent-spanning quest for fortune, glory, and power! From the bloodstained sands of the gladiatorial arena to the dunes of the Arabian Desert, meet the man who would become the warrior-king of an alien civilization - and our own world's most powerful hero - as he sets out to seize his destiny once upon a time in a land of faraway kings and unrepentant conquerors! Jump on board one of the most acclaimed series in comics here as New York Times best-selling writer Matt Kindt (Harbinger Wars 2, Mind MGMT) and blockbuster artist Trevor Hairsine (Divinity) - the best-selling team behind the DIVINITY trilogy - reunite for a thrilling, melee of blood and steely-eyed daring at the height of the barbarian age with a brutal new chapter in the epic saga of X-O Manowar! Collecting X-O Manowar (2017) #15-18.
