THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 2017
VALIANT ENTERTAINMENT FOR JUNE
SECRET WEAPONS #1
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Written by Eric Heisserer, art by Jelena Kevic Djurdjevic, covers by Raul Allen, Jelena Kevic-Djurdjevic, Roberto De La Torre, Bryan Hitch.
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 failures. But, to Livewire, they are secret weapons...in need of a leader. Now, as a mechanized killer called Rexo 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...
32 pages, $3.99, in stores on June 28.
X-O MANOWAR #4
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Written by Matt Kindt, art by Doug Braithwaite, covers by Lewis LaRosa, Dave Johnson, Ryan Bodenheim, Bob Layton.
"General," part one. 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 thesoul 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.
32 pages, $3.99, in stores on June 28.
RAPTURE #2
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Written by Matt Kindt, art by CAFU, covers by Mico Suayan, J.G. Jones, Kano, Clayton Crain.
Might meets magic! As Babel's dark forces in the Deadside rise, the afterlife's last chance at survival rests in the living's greatest champions. But to save heaven itself, MI-6 agent Colin King -- a.k.a. Ninjak -- must confront his greatest fears...and place his trusted steel against the fantastic and unknown powers of sorcery. With Punk Mambo, Tama the Geomancer, and the fallen hero Shadowman at his side, Ninjak will lead the supernatural's greatest champions into a suicide mission against beasts and barbarians...and the very gods themselves!
32 pages, $3.99, in stores on June 21.
RAI: THE HISTORY OF THE VALIANT UNIVERSE #1
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Written by Rafer Roberts, art by Francis Portela, covers by Clayton Crain, Clayton Henry, Robert Gill, Jeffrey Veregge.
It is the year 4002 A.D.... Rai, the spirit guardian of Earth, has uncovered an ancient tome filled with historyís greatest tales and civilizations darkest moments. Charting the dawning days of ancient Mesopotamia, all the way to the rise of New Japan, the history of the Valiant Universe is laid bare in shocking and revelatory detail. From X-O Manowar to Bloodshot to Faith to Divinity... history will reveal untold revelations for Valiantís greatest heroes and antagonists! In the tradition of the original RAI #0, Harvey Award-nominated writer Rafer Roberts (Harbinger Renegade) and acclaimed artist Francis Portela (Faith) unleash a celebration of Raiís 25th anniversary with the third of four standalone specials honoring the most famed Valiant stories ever told!
32 pages, $3.99, in stores on June 14.
BRITANNIA: WE WHO ARE ABOUT TO DIE #3
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Written by Peter Milligan, art by Juan Jose Ryp, covers by David Mack, Juan Jose Ryp, Robert Gill, Adam Gorham, Dave Johnson.
Wrath of the gods! The women of Rome march to rebellion! Magic and mystery continue to intertwine as the clock ticks down to Rubria's final hours. Will Antonius Axia and his mysterious new partner-the brutal female gladiator known as Achillia-untangle the knots that threaten to hang the Roman Empire...or will Nero finally obtain the dark power he lusted for? As the beaten ghost of Apollo finally rises to cast his dark judgment on all of Rome, history's first detective must act swiftly before humanity's final hours slip into madness!
32 pages, $3.99, in stores on June 21.
FAITH #12
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Written by Jody Houser, art by Joe Eisma, Marguerite Sauvage, covers by Kano, Jen Bartel, Sarah Winifred Searle.
Faith vs. "The Faithless" -- the final battle! Framed for a crime, held prisoner by a team of her greatest enemies, and quickly running out of time, Faith must confront the truth of her first true defeat! But has victory truly come to The Faithless - a revenge-obsessed squad of malicious malcontents - or will Los Angeles' soaring protector give them a run for their money first? From the Hollywood Hills to the Santa Monica Pier, L.A. is about to witness the ultimate beat-down between good and evil...and when the final page arrives, you'll be saying, "What the frack?!"
32 pages, $3.99, in stores on June 7.
X-O MANOWAR (2017) VOL. 1 SOLDIER
Written by Matt Kindt, art by Tomas Giorello, cover by Lewis LaRosa.
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! Collecting X-O Manowar (2017) #1-3 with more than 30 pages of rarely seen artand extras!
104 pages, $9.99, in stores on June 28.
DIVINITY III HEROES OF THE GLORIOUS STALINVERSE TP
Written by Jeff Lemire, Joe Harris, Scott Bryan Wilson and Elliot Rahal, art by Clayton Crain, CAFU, Robert Gill and Francis Portela, cover by Stephen Segovia/
Not a dream... Not an alternate reality... This is the Valiant Universe of today... The world has gone red and Valiant's leading legends -- Bloodshot, X-O Manowar and Shadowman -- now stand at the forefront of the global Soviet war machine Meanwhile, the conspiracy-smashing duo of Archer & Armstrong find themselves condemned as enemies of the state and sentenced to life in the deadliest prison known to man. Torn from the pages of Divinity III: Stalinverse, come four essential tales chronicling the history that has reordered the Valiant Universe as we know it. Collecting Divinity III: Komandar Bloodshot #1, Divinity III: Aric, Son of the
Revolution #1, Divinity III: Shadowman and The Battle for New Stalingrad #1, and Divinity III: Escape From Gulag 396 #1.
112 pages, $14.99, in stores on June 14.
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