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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2016

VALIANT ENTERTAINMENT FOR MAY

4001 A.D. #1

Written by Matt Kindt, art by Clayton Crain, covers by Clayton Crain, Tula Lotay, Ryan Bodenheim, Clayton Henry, Ryan Lee, Ryan Sook.

In the tradition of Book of Death, Armor Hunters and Harbinger Wars, Valiant's most ambitious crossover event yet starts here! At the dawn of the 41st century, the future of Earth will be decided in the stars. This May...the rebellion begins in 4001 A.D.!

One hundred years from today, Father -- the benevolent artificial intelligence that governs the island nation of Japan -- will gain sentience. To defend its borders, Father will take drastic action by launching Japan into space...where its people will thrive in isolation, away from the overpopulated and resource-deprived planet below. Over the centuries, as New Japan orbits our increasingly unstable world, it will become a model society -- one built on peace, prosperity... and Father's control.

A thousand years from today, Father will create the first Rai, founding a lineage of technologically enhanced heroes engineered to defend New Japan and sworn to protect it from all enemies. For hundreds of years into the future, the Rai will single-handedly enforce New Japan's justice well...and serve Father without question.

Now, at the dawn of 4001 A.D., the latest Rai is about to inherit the dark truth behind the origin of his kind...and discover the sinister secret at the heart of Father's existence. For New Japan to live, Earth must die...and as Rai challenges his former master for the first time in more than a millennium, the lone guardian of New Japan will be cast out of his own Father's kingdom...

Exiled from the only realm he's ever known, Rai now walks the ravaged world of 4001 A.D. in search of forgotten heroes like himself... on a mission to collect the last surviving legends of a broken planet...and to forge a rebellion with the power to bring the most advanced civilization in history crashing back down to Earth.

32 pages, $3.99.

4001 A.D.: RAI #13

Written by Matt Kindt, art by Cafu, covers by David Mack, Cafu, Clayton Henry, Ryan Lee.

New story arc! As 4001 A.D. teeters on the brink, discover the intertwined origins of New Japan's very first Rai and his creator, Father -- the despotic artificial intelligence that would one day threaten us all. And as the truth behind these long-lost beginnings resurfaces, so too will the questions that have eluded mankind for nearly two millennia. How did New Japan come to orbit Earth? Who created Father? And what happened to the nine previous Rai that once swore allegiance to his empire? Nncover the never-before-told story of New Japan's rise to power...and reveals just how the Valiant Universe of today became the 4001 A.D. of tomorrow!

32 pages, $3.99.

4001 A.D.: X-O MANOWAR #1

Written by Robert Venditti, art by Clayton Henry, covers by Cafu, Phil Jimenez, Matt Kindt, Ryan Lee.

Rocketing out of the pages of 4001 A.D...the present and future of Valiant's #1 hero come together for an essential standalone chapter at the heart of the summer's blockbuster comics event!

How did the rise of Earth's most powerful hero lead to humanity's ultimate destruction? Just what was the War of the X-O Manowars...and how did its catastrophic fallout bring ruination and despair to a besieged planet? And why is the sacred extraterrestrial armor called Shanhara the one weapon Father fears more than any other?

The answers to the pivotal questions behind Valiant's summer event arrive here. Blast two thousand years into the future of the Valiant Universe to reveal the never-before-told future history of New Japan's dominion over Earth...and the doomed role that the X-O Manowar armor was forever fated to play in the coming war for liberation!

32 pages, $3.99.

WRATH OF THE ETERNAL WARRIOR #7

Written by Robert Venditti, art by Raúl Allén, covers by Raúl Allén, Pere Pérez, Juan José Ryp, Khari Evans, Dave Bullock

New arc. "Labyrinth" starts now! Across six millennia, Gilad Anni-Padda -- an immortal warrior sworn to forever serve the Earth -- has felled zealots and madmen, emperors and tyrants in the course of his duty. But nothing he's faced yet can prepare him to run the "LABYRINTH" -- a miles-long maze of horrors specifically designed to undermine his every strength, enhance his every weakness...and to send him screaming into the darkness of death at every turn. But what kind of brilliant but twisted psyche could have possibly conceived such a monument to terror...and for how many centuries have they plotted to break the mind and body of history's most formidable soldier? The answer lies at the heart of the "LABYRINTH" itself...and as

Gilad endures a gauntlet of cutting-edge technology and sharpened steel, he'll soon discover why the merciless figure known only as THE DYING MAN has singled the Eternal Warrior out for the ultimate deathtrap.

He will run. He will suffer. And when his ordeal is ended, the Eternal Warrior's place in the Valiant Universe will be forever altered as New York Times best-selling writer Robert Venditti (BOOK OF DEATH) and visionary artist Raúl Allén (Hawkeye) unleash an all-new epic for Valiant's immortal master of war!

32 pages, $3.99.

DIVINITY II #2

Written by Matt Kindt, art by Trevor Hairsine, covers by Jelena Kevic-Djurdjevic, Tom Muller, Trevor Hairsine, Tula Lotay, Adam Gorham

Russia reigns supreme! Just a month after the arrival of long-lost cosmonaut Mishka, the former Soviet Union has made an impossible push to become the world's preeminent superpower. But how? Ninjak has a theory, but it will require going undercover across enemy lines...and maybe some help from Mishka's old comrade, Abram Adams -- the god-like being known as Divinity! But can the motives of a deity among men ever truly be known...and will the return of Divinity's former teammate rekindle his old allegiances?

32 pages, $3.99.

X-O MANOWAR ANNUAL 2016 #1

Written by Robert Venditti, Amy Chu, Jody Houser, various, art by Pere Perez, Cafu, Adam Gorham, Mike Mckone, Various, covers by Phil Jimenez, Carmen Carnero, Brian Level, Jeff Dekal

Join the adventures of Valiant's flagship hero here with 64-pages of armor-busting action on the frontlines of the Valiant Universe in X-O Manowar's fi rst-ever annual! 2016 is primed and ready to be X-O Manowar's most pivotal year yet! But before Aric of Dacia can confront the biggest threat Earth has ever faced, he must first reflect on the past...and the outcome of a bloodstained battle on the frontier of the Roman Empire that continues to be felt to this day! Then: X-O Manowar's sworn enemy, Commander Trill, readies for the war that is to come... by undergoing a life-threatening trial-by-fire that will test every ounce of his intellect and fury. Plus: Col. Jamie Capshaw must singlehandedly defend G.A.T.E from a menace nobody expected... and the Armorines begin an all-new mission at the heart of X-O Manowar's world!

64 pages, $5.99.

A&A: THE ADVENTURES OF ARCHER & ARMSTRONG #3

Written by Rafer Roberts, art by David Lafuente, covers by David Lafuente, Kano, Monica Gallagher, Rafer Roberts, Ben Oliver.

Archer and Armstrong and Mary-Maria versus Bacchus -- a dude who thinks he's the god of wine! At last... Bacchus' diabolical plan stands revealed: get Archer and Armstrong drunk! Too bad one is an immortal with a liver of steel and the other is a bit of a lightweight. That can only mean one thing: Mary-Maria to the rescue! But can she and Armstrong put aside their differences in time to hold Archer's hair back? Or is he about to ruin the expensive interior of Armstrong's bottomless satchel?!

32 pages, $3.99.

BLOODSHOT REBORN #13

Written by Jeff Lemire, art by Lewis Larosa, covers by Ben Oliver, Jeffrey Veregge, Tula Lotay, Mike Choi

"The Analog Man" slams into a wreckage-strewn showdown that will shatter Bloodshot's world...or what's left of it... Los Angeles. Thirty years later. The new mystery at the center of America's post-apocalyptic future stands revealed when Bloodshot and Ninjak fi nally discover the identity of the Man in the White Tower. Who is he? Why does he ruthlessly rule over Los Angeles? And what is his connection to the silent army of X-O Manowar sentries that police this world, the strange Goo-tech that pervades it...and to even Bloodshot himself?

32 pages, $3.99.

NINJAK #15

Written by Matt Kindt, art by Diego Bernard, covers by Mike Choi, Diego Bernard, Thony Silas.

"The Siege of King's Castle" -- Part 2! Roku and the remnants of Weaponeer have destroyed Colin King's home, his identity and his very life. But they made one mistake -- they didn't kill Ninjak when they had the chance! Ninjak's darkest hour is nigh as the most pivotal turning point yet continues in the deadly life of MI-6's most elite intelligence operative, only in "The Siege of King's Castle"!

32 pages, $3.99.

IMPERIUM #16

Written by Joshua Dysart, art by Khari Evans, covers by Clayton Henry, Diego Bernard, Zach Montoya.

"Stormbreak" explodes! Toyo Harada has gone to war to save his vision of world peace from the twin threats of his former protégé Livewire and Major Charlie Palmer's H.A.R.D. Corps! Amid the chaos, the tables have turned...and now, members of Harada's own team are angling to knife each other in the back! When the villains trying to save humanity fi ght their noblest instincts and the heroes who are trying to stop them struggle against their own demons...can anybody win? And, now, even the walls of Harada's Imperium begin to the fall, the seeds of his biggest strike yet already being sown...

32 pages, $3.99.

RAI DELUXE EDITION BOOK 1 HC

Written by Matt Kindt, Shawn Kittelsen, Sean Ryan, art by Clayton Crain, Raul Allen, Vicente Cifuentes, Rian Hughes, Matt Kindt, Ryan Lee, Dylan Todd, cover by Clayton Crain.

Discover the world of 41st century Japan with an all-new vision of the future unlike anything you've seen before -- now in deluxe, oversized hardcover!

The year is 4001 A.D. -- led by the artificial intelligence called "Father," the island nation of Japan has expanded out of the Pacific and into geosynchronous orbit with the ravaged Earth below. With billions to feed and protect, it has fallen to one solitary guardian to enforce the law of Father's empire -- the mysterious folk hero known as Rai. They say he can appear out of nowhere.

They say he is a spirit...the ghost of Japan. But when the first murder in a thousand years threatens to topple Father's benevolent reign, Rai will be forced to confront the true face of a nation transformed... and his own long-lost humanity...

Collecting Rai #1-12, along with material from Rai #1 Plus Edition and Rai #5 Plus Edition, this prestige-sized hardcover comes packed with more than 20 pages of rarely seen art and extras direct from the Valiant vaults.

352 pages, $39.99.

THE DEATH-DEFYING DR. MIRAGE VOL. 2: SECOND LIVES TPB

Written by Jen Van Meter, art by Roberto De La Torre, Diego Bernard, covers by Jelena Kevic-Djurdjevic

In time, even the dead may die...

Occult investigators Shan and Hwen Mirage lived their lives in the thrall of an epic love that few will ever have...until Hwen died tragically before his time. Now, after a perilous trip through the underworld, Shan and Hwen are reunited...but Hwen is still an intangible spirit of the dead -- incapable of opening a spellbook or even touching his wife.

Their options exhausted, the death-defying Doctors Mirage are about to enact a dangerous spell to restore Hwen's solid form...and grant his ghost a second life. But, in the wrong hands, their ancient rite will become a tool of terror -- and unleash a force of pure, homicidal evil that lusts for the murder of the living and the dead alike... a torturous death that obliterates not just everything a person ever had in this world, but everything their ghost will be in the next!

Collecting The Death-Defying Doctor Mirage: Second Lives #1-4.

112 pages, $14.99.

NINJAK VOL. 3: OPERATION: DEADSIDE TPB

Written by Matt Kindt, art by Doug Braithwaite, Juan José Ryp, cover by Doug Braithwaite.

In December 2015, a covert military intelligence unit sent a team of 20 agents and one special operative into a parallel dimension. Only one came back.

The purpose of their mission was classified. Now, out of options, MI-6 hasrecruited their most elite operative -- codename: Ninjak -- to follow the doomed mission's sole witness back into the dimension called Deadside...and bring her missing teammates home.

What will they find there? And who will be waiting for them? A terrifying journey into an unknown plane of existence...and bring Ninjak head-to-head with Shadowman. Collecting Ninjak #10--13.

144 pages, $14.99.







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