VALIANT ENTERTAINMENT FOR AUGUST

ARCHER & ARMSTRONG #1

Written by Fred Van Lente, art by Clayton Henry, cover by Mico Suayan, variant covers by Clayton Henry, David Aja and Neal Adams.

Obadiah Archer was born and raised to cherish three things above all else: the faith of his parents, the love of his 22 brothers and sisters, and his lifelong mission to defeat the ultimate evildoer. Now, after years of training, Archer has been dispatched to the heart of America's festering modern day Babylon, aka New York City, to root out and kill this infamous Great Satan. Unfortunately, dying has never been easy for Archer's target -- the hard-drinking, 10,000-year-old immortal known as Armstrong. Together, this unlikely pair of heroes is about to stumble headfirst into a centuries-old conspiracy that will bring the whole of ancient history crashing down on the modern day Valiant Universe. And that's going to mean one Hell of a hangover.

32 pages, $3.99, in stores on August 8.

HARBINGER #3

Written by Joshua Dysart, art by Khari Evans and Lewis LaRosa, cover by Arturo Lozzi, variant cover by Patrick Zircher.

Welcome to the Harbinger Foundation. Class is now in session.

Throughout his whole life, Peter Stanchek has been confused by his strange powers and their effect on those closest to him. Now, having abandoned everything he knows, Peter has escaped to the confines of Toyo Harada's Harbinger Foundation where his new training will temper his body, torture his mind and reawaken the horrors of his past. But is all of this truly giving Peter more control over his power? Or simply making him far more dangerous than he's ever been before?

32 pages, $3.99, in stores on August 15.

BLOODSHOT #2

Written by Duane SwierczynskI, art by Manuel Garcia and Arturo Lozzi, cover by Arturo Lozzi, variant cover by Andy Brase.

Waking up inside a body bag is no way to start the day. But that's where you are, and worse yet, you're 35,000 feet above the desert, guarded by the some of the toughest soldiers on the planet. You're being flown back to the people who created you, who may have even betrayed you. You're having a hard time separating your false memories (of family, duty, country) from the grim reality (of bullets, blood, screaming). Who's really on your side? Why were you created? Where does the ìreal youî end and the programming begin? There's only one way to find out -- by reaching up and zipping open this bag. And God have mercy on anyone who comes face-to-face with the weapon -- no, the man -- no, the soldier -- known only as Bloodshot.

32 pages, $3.99, in stores on August 15.

X-O MANOWAR #4

Written by Robert Venditti, art by Cary Nord, cover by Doug Braithwaite, variant cover by Don Kramer.

With the enormous power of the X-O Manowar armor at his command, Aric has returned to Earth hell bent on destroying the Roman Empire. But the Rome he encounters is as alien to him as the Vine colony ship he escaped from -- because 1,600 years have transpired in his absence. Without fully understanding the consequences of his actions, will Aric's first act in the modern day ignite a new world war? Meanwhile, the secret history of the Vine's presence on Earth is finally revealed. Who is corporate mogul Alexander Dorian? Will he be Aric's one ally in this strange new world -- or his very first enemy?

32 pages, $3.99, in stores on August 29.