The year's best-selling independent limited series, now in deluxe edition hardcover! Eric Heisserer, the Academy Award-nominated screenwriter of Arrival and Valiant's upcoming Harbinger and Bloodshot feature films, joins the Harvey Award-nominated art team of Raúl Allén & Patricia MartÃn (Wrath Of The Eternal Warrior) for an all-new Valiant adventureâ¦launching Livewire and an extraordinary new team of heroes into the fight of their lives! The government has dispatched Amanda McKee - the technopath codenamed Livewire - to investigate the ruins of a secret facility formerly run by Toyo Harada, the most powerful telepath on Earth and her former mentor. In his quest for world betterment at any cost, Harada sought out and activated many potential psiots like himself. Those who survived, but whose powers he deemed to have no value to his cause, were hidden away at this installation. But Livewire, having studied Harada's greatest strengths and learned his deepest weaknesses, senses opportunity where he once saw failure. A young girl who can talk to birds⦠A boy who can make inanimate objects gently glow⦠To others, these are expensive disappointments. But, to Livewire, they are secret weaponsâ¦in need of a leader. Now, as a mechanized killer called Rex-O seeks to draw them out, Livewire and her new team of cadets will be forced to put their powers into actionâ¦in ways they never could have imagined⦠Collecting Secret Weapons #1-4.
Eric Heisserer - the Academy Award-nominated screenwriter of Arrival and Valiant's upcoming Harbinger and Bloodshot feature films - joins Harvey Award-nominated visionary Raúl Allén (Wrath of the Eternal Warrior) for an all-new Valiant adventure... launching Livewire and an extraordinary new team of heroes into the fight of their lives! The government has dispatched Amanda McKee - the technopath codenamed Livewire - to investigate the ruins of a secret facility formerly run by Toyo Harada, the most powerful telepath on Earth and her former mentor. In his quest for world betterment at any cost, Harada sought out and activated many potential psiots like himself. Those who survived, but whose powers he deemed to have no value to his cause, were hidden away at this installation. But Livewire, having studied Harada's greatest strengths and learned his deepest weaknesses, senses opportunity where he once saw failure. A young girl who can talk to birds... A boy who can make inanimate objects gently glow... To others, these are expensive disappointments. But, to Livewire, they are secret weapons...in need of a leader. Now, as a mechanized killer called Rex-O seeks to draw them out, Livewire and her new team of cadets will be forced to put their powers into action...in ways they never could have imagined... Collecting Secret Weapons #1-4.
A galactic empire hunts a race of shape shifters that it believes will overthrow its rule. When an orphaned teenager discovers that he is one of the hunted-a Shaper-he must use his newfound abilities to save his people and fulfill the empire's prophecy of its own downfall. Collects issues #1-#5.
