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Preview: Sect Civil War vs. the All-Seeing Eyes of Archer & Armstrong #16!

Posted on December 2, 2013 by Brett

Valiant has released a preview of Archer & Armstrong #16 by New York Times best-selling writer Fred Van Lente and Harvey Award-nominated artist Khari Evans! Sect Civil War continues! It’s a showdown on the lowdown as Archer & Armstrong regroup to capture an ancient weapon forged way back in mummy times before it falls into the hands of…well, just about every scary group of secret conspirators history has ever known.

The multiple Sects that secretly govern our world have stepped out of the shadows and right into each others’ faces! Now the newly reunited Archer and Armstrong (for now) must stand tall in this conspiracy free-for-all and find a way to not only survive, but save the world in the process (again)!

The illuminated banksters of One Percent! The masonic brothers of the Master Builders! The consecrated murder nuns of the Sisters of Perpetual Darkness! The anonymous anarchists of the Black Bloc! And more! The secret factions of Sect Civil War steamroll into their biggest battle yet right here on December 11th, only in Archer & Armstrong #16 – in stores the same day as Unity #2!

ARCHER & ARMSTRONG #16 (SECT CIVIL WAR)
Written by FRED VAN LENTE
Art by KHARI EVANS with CHRISCROSS
Cover by CLAYTON HENRY (OCT131348)
Variant Cover by MICHAEL WALSH (OCT131349)
$3.99/T+/32 pgs.
ON SALE 12/11/13

Archer & Armstrong and Bloodshot Plot “Mission: Improbable”

Posted on November 23, 2013 by Brett

This March, expect the improbable!

Valiant has announced “Mission: Improbable” – a four-part crossover event beginning this March in Archer & Armstrong #18 and Bloodshot and H.A.R.D. Corps #20!

“Mission: Improbable” will unite the ongoing Archer & Armstrong creative team of Fred Van Lente and Pere Perez with Bloodshot and H.A.R.D Corps co-writers Christos Gage and Joshua Dysart and incoming artist Tom Raney for an action-packed melee through the espionage-laden underground of the Valiant Universe!

Archer & Armstrong are going to war with Bloodshot and H.A.R.D Corps! (GULP!) That’s right, Valiant’s globe-trotting adventure duo have been targeted for elimination by Project Rising Spirit’s most elite kill crew. Their mission? Assassinate the the newly appointed leader of a homegrown fundamentalist terror sect named…Obadiah Archer?! (And if they could take out his mentally ill, alcoholic bodyguard who just happens to think he’s a 10,000-year-old immortal, that’d be swell too!)

Each issue features one of four interlocking Pullbox Exclusive Variants – reserved exclusively for comic shop subscribers – by artist Jorge Molina.

ARCHER & ARMSTRONG #18 (MISSION: IMPROBABLE – PART 1)
Written by FRED VAN LENTE
Art by PERE PEREZ
Cover by LEWIS LAROSA
Interlocking Pullbox Variant by JORGE MOLINA
Variant Cover by MICHAEL WALSH
$3.99/T+/32 pgs.
ON SALE IN MARCH!

BLOODSHOT AND H.A.R.D. CORPS #20 (MISSION: IMPROBABLE – PART 2)
Written by CHRISTOS GAGE & JOSHUA DYSART
Art by TOM RANEY
Cover by LEWIS LAROSA
Interlocking Pullbox Variant by JORGE MOLINA
Variant Cover by CLAYTON HENRY
$3.99/T+/32 pgs.
ON SALE IN MARCH!

ARCHER & ARMSTRONG #19 (MISSION: IMPROBABLE – PART 3)
Written by FRED VAN LENTE
Art by PERE PEREZ
Cover by LEWIS LAROSA
Interlocking Pullbox Variant by JORGE MOLINA
Variant Cover by MICHAEL WALSH
$3.99/T+/32 pgs.
ON SALE IN APRIL!

BLOODSHOT AND H.A.R.D. CORPS #21 (MISSION: IMPROBABLE – FINALE)
Written by CHRISTOS GAGE & JOSHUA DYSART
Art by TOM RANEY
Cover by LEWIS LAROSA
Interlocking Pullbox Variant by JORGE MOLINA
Variant Cover by TOM FOWLER
$3.99/T+/32 pgs.
ON SALE IN APRIL!

Valiant in February 2014

Posted on November 16, 2013 by Brett

UNITY #4

Written by MATT KINDT
Art by DOUG BRAITHWAITE
Cover by CLAYTON CRAIN
Variant Cover by RILEY ROSSMO
Variant Cover by CLAYTON HENRY

UNITY divided!

Here comes heavyweight showdown you’ve been waiting for! As Harada’s secret machinations come to light, the newly minted UNITY team will be faced with a choice that will change this team forever – and the Valiant Universe along with it. Get ready for a world-shaking battle royale as the final installment of UNITY’s first adventure pits X-O Manowar and Toyo Harada against the most dangerous battalion ever united – and each other.

$3.99/T+/32 pgs.
ON SALE FEBRUARY 19th!

X-O MANOWAR #22

Written by ROBERT VENDITTI
Art by DIEGO BERNARD
Cover by LEWIS LAROSA
Variant Cover by WILL CONRAD
Valiant Signature Series Variant by JIM CALAFIORE

UNITY EPILOGUE! When X-O Manowar thought he had finally found peace, he instead found only more war, death, and destruction…

Now, at his lowest point, Aric of Dacia’s fate rests in the hands with the most unlikely of allies. Will X-O Manowar regain his lost power and seek bloody vengeance on his enemies, or will be forge a new path? The beginning of a brand new era for Valiant’s flagship hero starts here.

$3.99/T+/32 pgs.
ON SALE FEBRUARY 26th!

SHADOWMAN #15

Written by PETER MILLIGAN
Art & Cover by ROBERTO DE LA TORRE
Variant Cover by MIKE ALLRED

Shadowman must die!

Jack Boniface is out of control. A monstrous supernatural force known only as Tremble threatens to destroy Shadowman…if the ghosts that haunt Jack don’t tear him apart first! Before he cracks, the Abettors — sworn to aid the Shadowman and shield him from the forces of darkness — must take drastic measures to protect the world from Jack’s terrible power. Can Jack defeat the evil that’s coming to kill him…and save himself from the allies trying to drive a knife into his back?

$3.99/T+/32 pgs.
ON SALE FEBRUARY 5th!

ARCHER & ARMSTRONG: ARCHER #0

Written by FRED VAN LENTE
Art by PERE PEREZ
Cover by CLAYTON HENRY
Pullbox Exclusive Variant by JOE EISMA
Variant Cover by ANDY KUHN

Once upon a time…a baby went into Project Rising Spirit…

Who is Obadiah Archer, where did he come from, and how can he do the incredible things that he can do? (Which is everything, remember?) Fresh off the shocking conclusion of the Sect Civil War, learn the startling truth behind Archer’s origin with an exciting look into his secret past by Valiant superstar Fred Van Lente and fan favorite artist Pere Perez!

$3.99/T+/32 pgs.
ON SALE FEBRUARY 5th!

HARBINGER #21

Written by JOSHUA DYSART
Art & Cover by CLAYTON HENRY
Interlocking Variant by ZACHARY MONTOYA

“Resistance” ratchets up the stakes! Peter and the Renegades wanted information to be free, but now they’re about to pay a very steep price.

Once again, the Renegades are on the run with the combined forces of the Harbinger Foundation and Project Rising Spirit closing in on all sides. This time, however, the team’s newest member, Ax, has left a trail of leaked classified information that could could win the day – but also put the few loved ones they have into dire peril. And now the moment has come when they must choose between their fate and their families…

$3.99/T+/32 pgs.
ON SALE FEBRUARY 12th!

BLOODSHOT AND H.A.R.D. CORPS: H.A.R.D. CORPS #0

Written by CHRISTOS GAGE & JOSHUA DYSART
Art by CHRISCROSS
Cover by ARTURO LOZZI
Pullbox Exclusive Variant by MIGUEL SEPULVEDA
Variant Cover by LEWIS LAROSA

Remember the ’90s?!

The most elite assets of Project Rising Spirit team up for an early mission together — Bloodshot and the H.A.R.D. Corps, living weapons! But, in the decade of dial-up, the technology is far from perfect and bugs are bound to pop up in the wetware…with disastrous results…

$3.99/T+/32 pgs.
ON SALE FEBRUARY 26th!

BLOODSHOT AND H.A.R.D. CORPS #19

Written by CHRISTOS GAGE & JOSHUA DYSART
Art by BART SEARS
Cover by CLAYTON CRAIN
Variant Cover by BART SEARS

“GET SOME” – Part Two! Bloodshot and H.A.R.D. Corps fight for more than they bargained for!

When a routine rescue mission goes horribly wrong, Director Kozol is taken captive by a group of grizzled psiot mercenaries with a vital key to Bloodshot’s past. The team fight to save Kozol’s life…and they don’t even like him! Duck and cover – because you’ve just dropped into in the middle of the Arabian Desert for a super-powered gunfight at an exploding oil pipeline!

$3.99/T+/32 pgs.
ON SALE FEBRUARY 19th!

ETERNAL WARRIOR #6

Written by GREG PAK
Art by TREVOR HAIRSINE
Cover by LEWIS LAROSA
Variant Cover by DIEGO BERNARD

Long live the Eternal Emperor!

The first glimpse into the Valiant Universe in the year 4001 continues here! The Eternal Emperor rules over a blighted landscape, the last hope of a desperate band of survivors. When an enigmatic force appears and threatens to destroy the last remnants of his people, he faces a horrific choice: travel an irradiated landscape in search to kidnap an innocent, or see his people destroyed. Welcome to the Valiant Universe of 4001.

$3.99/T+/32 pgs.
ON SALE FEBRUARY 12th!

QUANTUM AND WOODY #8

Written by JAMES ASMUS
Art by MING DOYLE
Cover by TOM FOWLER
Variant Cover by MING DOYLE

CHARGE!

Quantum and Woody vs. Magnum Security…for all the marbles! Who would have suspected that Quantum’s employer Mr. Magnum and his private security firm were up to no good? So now the would-be victims of Magnum’s violence and greed rally around our unlikely heroes to protect their heavily fortified, heavily armed mountain town. These colors don’t run!

$3.99/T+/32 pgs.
ON SALE FEBRUARY 19th!

HARBINGER VOL. 4: PERFECT DAY TPB

Written by JOSHUA DYSART
Art by BARRY KITSON and CLAYTON HENRY
Cover by BARRY KITSON

Nightmares are just dreams too.

It’s been a brutal few months for Peter Stanchek and the Renegades, culminating in the harrowing events – and losses – of the Harbinger Wars. But now the members of the team have woken up to the Best. Day. Ever. As Lou Reed sang, it’s just a perfect day, problems left all alone. But for Peter Stanchek – a kid who deserves a good day – something seems off…like all is not what it seems…

Collecting HARBINGER #15-19 by New York Times best-selling writer Joshua Dysart (Harbinger Wars) and all-star artists Barry Kitson (Amazing Spider-Man) and Clayton Henry (Archer & Armstrong), start reading here with the mind-bending story arc that Comic Vine calls “an excellent jumping-on point.”

$14.99/T+/128 pgs.
TRADE PAPERBACK
ISBN: 978-1-939346-15-5
ON SALE FEBRUARY 5th!

ARCHER & ARMSTRONG VOL. 4: SECT CIVIL WAR TPB

Written by FRED VAN LENTE
Art by KHARI EVANS with CHRISCROSS
Cover by CLAYTON HENRY

Every enemy. Against each other.

For centuries, the cloak-and-dagger coalition of conspiracies collectively known as The Sect has worked together to bring silent oppression and undercover tyranny to a world that thought it was free. But, now after centuries of profit sharing and uneasy alliances, the factions of The Sect are about to erupt into open conflict…and the only men that can end the insanity are Archer & Armstrong! Too bad they’re fighting for different sides! Why? How? And will either survive? The knockdown, drag-out A&A event of the year starts now – and no conspirator is safe!

Collecting ARCHER & ARMSTRONG #14-17 by New York Times best-selling writer Fred Van Lente (Incredible Hercules) and acclaimed artists Khari Evans (Harbinger) and ChrisCross (Superman/Batman), jump into the series that IGN calls “a must read” with an all-new adventure pitching Archer & Armstrong into their biggest battle yet!

$14.99/T+/112 pgs.
TRADE PAPERBACK
ISBN: 978-1-939346-25-4
ON SALE FEBRUARY 26th!

Solicits

All-New Valiant Zero Issues Coming in 2014 – Archer #0, Goat #0, H.A.R.D. Corps #0, and More!

Posted on November 11, 2013 by Brett

In the midst of UNITY…jump into the ongoing adventures of Valiant‘s next breakout heroes with an all-new wave of Valiant zero issues in February and March!

Discover the origins and secret early exploits of the fan favorite heroes of the Valiant Universe right here with four essential jumping-on points, designed to bring new readers up to speed and lay the foundation for the next year of Valiant’s monthly series!

Valiant’s all-new #0 initiative kicks off in February with Archer & Amrstrong: Archer: ARCHER #0 – revealing, at last, the untold story of young Obadiah Archer, where he came from, and just how can he do the incredible things that he does! (Which is everything, remember?) From the minds of writer Fred Van Lente and artist Pere Perez, start reading here to peer inside the war journal of a teenage assassin!

Also in February, the all-star creative team of Christos Gage, Joshua Dysart, and ChrisCross unleash Bloodshot and H.A.R.D. Corps: H.A.R.D. Corps #0! Hey, remember the 90s? The most elite assets of Project Rising Spirit are teaming up for an early mission together — but, in the decade of dial-up, the technology is far from perfect and bugs are bound to pop up in the wetware…with disastrous results…

Then, coming in March, artist Tom Fowler returns to pull double duty with the world’s worst superhero team for Quantum and Woody: The Goat #0 – co-written by ongoing series writer James Asmus! Are heroes born or are they bred? Who – or what – spawned the powerhouse of animal husbandry known simply as Vincent Van Goat?

Also in March, original series creators Joshua Dysart and Khari Evans journey into the darkest corners of the Harbinger Foundation for Harbinger: Bleeding Monk #0. The Bleeding Monk, formerly Toyo Harada’s right hand, has been missing for over a year. Now, uncover the true whereabouts of Harada’s cryptic advisor – and the first of many secret revelations to come…

ARCHER & ARMSTRONG: ARCHER #0
Written by FRED VAN LENTE
Art by PERE PEREZ
Cover by CLAYTON HENRY
Pullbox Exclusive Variant by JOE EISMA
Variant Cover by ANDY KUHN
$3.99/T+/32 pgs.
ON SALE IN FEBRUARY!

BLOODSHOT AND H.A.R.D. CORPS: H.A.R.D. CORPS #0
Written by CHRISTOS GAGE & JOSHUA DYSART
Art by CHRISCROSS
Cover by ARTURO LOZZI
Pullbox Exclusive Variant by MIGUEL SEPULVEDA
Variant Cover by LEWIS LAROSA
$3.99/T+/32 pgs.
ON SALE IN FEBRUARY!

QUANTUM AND WOODY: THE GOAT #0
Written by JAMES ASMUS & TOM FOWLER
Art & Cover by TOM FOWLER
Pullbox Exclusive Variant by MATTHEW WAITE
Variant Cover by CHIP ZDARSKY
$3.99/T+/32 pgs.
ON SALE IN MARCH!

HARBINGER: BLEEDING MONK #0
Written by JOSHUA DYSART
Art by KHARI EVANS
Cover by CLAYTON HENRY
Pullbox Exclusive Variant by CLAYTON CRAIN
Variant Cover by MICO SUAYAN
$3.99/T+/32 pgs.
ON SALE IN MARCH!

Graphic Policy Radio Live this Monday with guest Fred Van Lente

Posted on November 2, 2013 by Brett

This Monday night is a brand new episode of Graphic Policy Radio, the show that mixes comics and politics. Listen in as the show airs live at 10pm ET.

This week, we’ve got a guest, writer Fred Van Lente whose career has spanned numerous genres, publishers and series.

We’ll be primarily discussing his Dark Horse series’ Brain Boy and Conan and the People of the Black Circle. It’s also been announced he’ll be taking over Conan the Barbarian starting with issue 26 after Brian Wood wraps up his run.

Van Lente also currently writes Archer & Armstrong for Valiant, G.I. Joe for IDW and the upcoming Magnus the Robot Fighter reboot from Dynamite! See we told you a lot.

So join us this Monday and join the conversation by calling in or on Twitter @graphicpolicy.

So listen in live, this Monday at 10pm ET and we want to hear your questions!

Valiant in January 2014

Posted on October 19, 2013 by Brett

ETERNAL WARRIOR #5 (NEW ARC – “ETERNAL EMPEROR”)

Written by GREG PAK
Art by DIEGO BERNARD
Cover by CLAYTON CRAIN
Pullbox Exclusive Variant by DIEGO BERNARD
Variant Cover by DAVE BULLOCK
Variant Cover by DAVID MACK

MUST READ VALIANT! All-new arc, all-new jumping-on point! Valiant’s immortal champion builds a bridge to…4001 A.D.!

THE FUTURE HAS ARRIVED. Two thousand years from today, the planet has been transformed by science, technology…and war. The centuries have not been kind to the Earth’s own undying warrior – but a battle that could change everything is just beginning right here in 21st century. Rising star Diego Bernard joins New York Times best-selling writer Greg Pak to make history with a brand new vision of the Valiant Universe that is to come and define a brand new era for heroes – past, present and future.

$3.99/T+/32 pgs.
ON SALE JANUARY 22nd!

HARBINGER #20 (NEW ARC – “RESISTANCE”)

Written by JOSHUA DYSART
Art & Cover by CLAYTON HENRY
Pullbox Exclusive Variant by ZACHARY MONTOYA
Variant Cover by KHARI EVANS

MUST READ VALIANT! All-new arc, all-new jumping-on point! Joshua Dysart and Clayton Henry launch “RESISTANCE” – and end the Renegades war against Toyo Harada once and for all.

Peter Stanchek and his team of teenage superhuman outlaws have decided that the best defense is a strong offense. Pursued from coast-to-coast by their would-be overlord in the Harbinger Foundation, the Renegades are about to launch a strategic strike on Harada’s secret empire – and they’ll start by revealing to the world just what kind of power they’ve been hiding all along. The ace up their sleeve? A seemingly normal teenage hacker named Ax…who knows exactly what Harada has been up to since day one…

$3.99/T+/32 pgs.
ON SALE JANUARY 15th!

BLOODSHOT AND H.A.R.D. CORPS #18 (NEW ARC – “GET SOME”)

Written by CHRISTOS GAGE & JOSHUA DYSART
Art by BART SEARS
Cover by CLAYTON CRAIN
Pullbox Exclusive Variant by LEWIS LAROSA
Variant Cover by CULLY HAMNER

MUST READ VALIANT! All-new arc, all-new jumping-on point! “GET SOME!” starts here!

Bloodshot and the expendable commandos of H.A.R.D. Corps face off against a network of terrorist saboteurs in the heart of the Persian Gulf! But as Bloodshot digs into the multinational oil conglomerate that’s signing his paychecks, he’ll soon find himself confronted by the complex truth behind the terror – and face-to-face with an older, scrappier, more grizzled generation of superhuman soldier from the glory days of proxy wars and state-sponsored assassination.

Start reading here when comics legend Bart Sears comes on board for a two-part action epic pitting Valiant’s 21st century shock troops against the first wave of superhuman specialists!

$3.99/T+/32 pgs.
ON SALE JANUARY 8th!

MUST READ VALIANT: GREATEST HITS #1

Written by ROBERT VENDITTI, JAMES ASMUS, JOSHUA DYSART, DUANE SWIERCZYNSKI, and JUSTIN JORDAN
Art by LEE GARBETT, TOM FOWLER, KHARI EVANS, CLAYTON HENRY, PERE PEREZ, ROBERTO DE LA TORRE, MICO SUAYAN, and LEWIS LAROSA

Never tried a Valiant comic?! Start reading here – with more than 100 pages of Valiant Comics greatness for just $5.99!

Find out why VALIANT is the MUST READ superhero publisher in comics today with a greatest hits collection of can’t-miss moments from across the Valiant Universe! Re-presenting X-O MANOWAR #5, QUANTUM AND WOODY #1, HARBINGER #1, HARBINGER WARS #2, and SHADOWMAN #0, MUST READ VALIANT: GREATEST HITS #1 is the perfect place to find out why IGN is declaring: “Nobody is making superhero books like this, which is exactly why you should be paying attention to Valiant Comics.”

$5.99/T+/112 pgs.
ON SALE JANUARY 15th!

UNITY #3

Written by MATT KINDT
Art & Cover by DOUG BRAITHWAITE
Variant Cover by J.G. JONES
Variant Cover by SHANE DAVIS

Enter: Livewire!

On an airtight team of stone-cold soldiers, Amanda McKee is the one variable in the equation that equals absolute kill. Now, as the last woman standing against the unstoppable force known as X-O Manowar, the Harbinger Foundation’s most seasoned technopath has just added one new item to her resume – newest bearer of the X-O Manowar armor and the finger behind the trigger of the universe’s most powerful weapon. Watch out world…this means trouble.

$3.99/T+/32 pgs.
ON SALE JANUARY 15th!

X-O MANOWAR #21

Written by ROBERT VENDITTI
Art by CARY NORD
Cover by SHANE DAVIS
Variant Cover by CARY NORD

UNITY TIE-IN! X-O Manowar: Prisoner of War!

Stripped of the X-O Manowar armor, Aric of Dacia has been imprisoned and interrogated at an off-the-grid black site. But what knowledge could the governments of the world want from a man who has journeyed 1,600 years to the present? A man who liberated an alien planet? A man who once wielded the most powerful weapon in existence? What knowledge could they want, you ask? All of it. And the agents of UNITY will extract every one of Aric of Dacia’s secrets by any means necessary.

$3.99/T+/32 pgs.
ON SALE JANUARY 22nd!

SHADOWMAN #14

Written by PETER MILLIGAN
Art & Cover by ROBERTO DE LA TORRE
Valiant Signature Series Variant by BOB HALL

Infernal weapons!

As the Shadowman loa begins to exert its influence in even more unexpected ways, Jack Boniface is quickly coming to terms with the darkness inside him and finding out firsthand just how brutal unchecked power can be. With word of Shadowman’s increased unpredictability spreading across New Orleans, the Abettors grow even more suspicious of their newest trainee…and begin to consider drastic measures.

$3.99/T+/32 pgs.
ON SALE JANUARY 8th!

QUANTUM AND WOODY #7

Written by JAMES ASMUS
Art & Cover by MING DOYLE
Connect-the-Dots Variant by TOM FOWLER

So…two superheroes, a clone, and a goat move into a junior two-bedroom…

As a totally questionable romance blossoms between Woody and his runaway science experiment girlfriend, Eric finds himself quickly rising through the ranks of his new employers at Magnum Security. But when he comes to find that his duties as an on-staff superhero are bit more unsavory than he ever expected, it’s down to Quantum, an old army buddy, and Woody—interloper!—to discover the illicit truth behind Mr. Magnum’s all-seeing private security empire.
$3.99/T+/32 pgs.
ON SALE JANUARY 8th!

ARCHER & ARMSTRONG #17

Written by FRED VAN LENTE
Art by KHARI EVANS
Cover by CLAYTON HENRY
Variant Cover by MICHAEL WALSH

The SECT CIVIL WAR reaches its earth-shattering climax!

(…and for once we mean that literally)! ARCHER versus ARMSTRONG! An incredible second identity for MARY-MARIA! Obadiah Archer gets a bold new role – and mission! The secret of the MASTER BUILDERS revealed! We were kidding, before but now we’re serious: This one changes EVERYTHING, and the Valiant Universe will never be the same again!

$3.99/T+/32 pgs.
ON SALE JANUARY 15th!

ETERNAL WARRIOR VOL. 1: SWORD OF THE WILD TPB

Written by GREG PAK
Art by TREVOR HAIRSINE & CLAYTON CRAIN
Cover by CLAYTON CRAIN

Soldier. Guardian. Warrior. Legend.

Across ten millennia and a thousand battlefields, Gilad Anni-Padda has traversed the darkest, most mysterious corners of history. But the horror and bloodshed of constant warfare has finally taken its toll on the man myth calls the Eternal Warrior…and he has abdicated his duties as the Fist and the Steel of Earth for a quiet life of seclusion. But when a blood vendetta from the distant past suddenly reappears in the modern day, he must decide if he will return to the ways of war…for the child who betrayed him thousands of years ago…

From New York Times best-selling writer Greg Pak (Planet Hulk) and superstar artists Trevor Hairsine (X-Men: Deadly Genesis) and Clayton Crain (Carnage), this volume collects the first four issues of the series that Comic Vine calls “action-packed, well-written, and overflowing with potential.”

$9.99/T+/112 pgs.
TRADE PAPERBACK
ISBN: 978-1-939346-20-9
ON SALE JANUARY 22nd!

BLOODSHOT VOL. 4: H.A.R.D. CORPS TPB

Written by CHRISTOS GAGE & JOSHUA DYSART and MATT KINDT
Art by EMANUELA LUPACCHINO and CHRISCROSS
Cover by J.G. JONES

Every mission…is someone’s last.

Out of the ashes of Harbinger Wars, Bloodshot is about to join the weaponized men and women of the HARBINGER ACTIVE RESISTANCE DIVISION – the black budget, technologically-augmented strike force where the powers are dangerously unstable and every mission is a one-way ticket into the meat grinder. With a reluctant leader calling the shots and a new crop of untested rookies manning the frontline, Bloodshot is about to take H.A.R.D. Corps behind enemy lines – and into a gasoline-drenched, synapse-snapping suicide run where no one is safe…and heroes always die trying.

Collecting BLOODSHOT AND H.A.R.D. CORPS #14-17 and BLOODSHOT #0, join acclaimed writers Christos Gage (Avengers Academy) and Joshua Dysart (Harbinger Wars) and superstar-in-the-making Emanuela Lupacchino (Archer & Armstrong) right here to light the fuse on an explosive new chapter for Bloodshot and the Valiant Universe’s most feared team of superhuman operatives! Also featuring the shocking origin of Bloodshot as told by Matt KIndt (Mind MGMT) and ChrisCross (Superman/Batman)!

$14.99/T+/128 pgs.
TRADE PAPERBACK
ISBN: 978-1-939346-19-3
ON SALE JANUARY 8th!

SHADOWMAN VOL. 3: DEADSIDE BLUES TPB

Written by JUSTIN JORDAN, JIM ZUB, ALES KOT, CHRISTOPHER SEBELA, DUFFY BOUDREAU, and NEIL DVORAK
Art by ROBERTO DE LA TORRE, MICO SUAYAN, LEWIS LAROSA, DIEGO BERNARD, ANDREA CUNEO, MIGUEL SEPULVEDA, MATTHEW SOUTHWORTH, and NEIL DVORAK
Cover by DAVE JOHNSON

The secret origin of all Shadowmen, past and present…

Long ago, in the antebellum South, Master Darque’s evil spawned the one thing that could stop him: the Shadowman. Now, for the very first time, discover how the dark roots of the Darques’ depravity has intertwined with Shadowman for more than a century and the betrayal that forged them both in this collection of acclaimed tales from some of comics brightest talents.

Collecting SHADOWMAN #0 and SHADOWMAN #10-12, join Harvey Award-nominated writer Justin Jordan and an all-star cast of visionary creators –including Duffy Boudreau (BlackAcre) Ales Kot (Suicide Squad), Christopher Sebela (Captain Marvel), Miguel Sepulveda (Red Lanterns), Mico Suayan (The Punisher), Jim Zub (Skullkickers) and more – for an unadulterated look inside the secret world of New Orleans’ nocturnal guardian.

$14.99/T+/128 pgs.
TRADE PAPERBACK
ISBN: 978-1-939346-16-2
ON SALE JANUARY 1st!

Around the Tubes

Posted on October 11, 2013 by Brett

The weekend, a long weekend, is almost here! What are folks doing? So far what announcement from New York Comic Con has you the most excited?

Around the Tubes

CBR – ABC Greenlights “Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” For Full Season – Not a shocker.

Kotaku – The New Fables Game Is Cool, But Something’s Off – Don’t care, still want to play it.

Around the Tubes Reviews

Comic Vine – Archer and Armstrong #14

CBR – Astro City #5

Comic Vine – Avengers Arena #16

CBR – Batman #24

Comic Vine – Captain America #12

Comic Vine – Coffin Hill #1

Comic Vine – FBP: Federal Bureau of Physics #4

Comic Vine – The Manhattan Projects #15

Comic Vine – Mars Attacks Judge Dredd #2

Snuggly Oranges – Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Graphic Novels #1

Comic Vine – Red Sonja #4

Comic Vine – Rocket Girl #1

DC Women Kicking Ass – Superman/Wonder Woman #1

Comic Vine – Three #1

Comic Vine – Uncanny X-Force #12

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NYCC 2013: Find Out Why Valiant is Must Read

Posted on September 24, 2013 by Brett

This October, find out why Valiant makes the case why they’re the Must Read publisher in comics today at New York Comic-Con– the East Coast’s biggest and most exciting popular culture convention!

From Thursday, October 10th to Sunday, October 13th, Valiant will be in full force at Booth #2028 inside the Javits Center in Midtown Manhattan – and they’re bringing along a boatload of exclusive giveaways, all-new convention-only items, and superstar talent to celebrate our biggest NYCC ever!

Stop by all weekend long to shop a complete selection of Valiant comics, trade paperbacks and merchandise, including two brand new items debuting only at NYCC – the Archer & Armstrong #14 NYCC Variant by fan favorite artist Clayton Henry and the oversized, shelf-busting X-O Manowar Deluxe Edition Book One hardcover collection – signed by all-star creators Robert Venditti and Cary Nord! And don’t miss the Unity #1 Preview Edition – a FREE, NYCC-only first look, featuring advance peeks inside Unity #1 and X-O Manowar #19!

Plus, want to find out what makes Valiant Comics tick? Sign up at the Valiant booth for a twice-daily tour of Valiant’s 34th Street headquarters, just minutes away from the con floor!

And, on Saturday, October 12th at 4 pm, join them at the Valiant Comics: Must Read Valiant panel presentation for an exclusive round of news and announcements! Featuring creators Doug Braithwaite, Matt Kindt, Greg Pak, and Fred Van Lente, alongside Valiant Executive Editor Warren Simons and Chief Creative Officer Dinesh Shamdasani.

FREE CONVENTION-ONLY GIVEAWAYS:

UNITY #1 NYCC PREVIEW EDITION

Get a sneak peek at the can’t-miss comic event of 2013 with a FREE, NYCC-exclusive preview edition featuring first looks at UNITY #1 and X-O Manowar #19 – featuring the work of Matt Kindt, Robert Venditti, Doug Braithwaite, Cary Nord and more!

SHADOWMAN MASKS

See NYCC through the eyes of New Orleans’ nocturnal protector with a FREE die-cut Shadowman mask, designed by award-winning artist Rian Hughes!

NYCC EXCLUSIVES:

ARCHER & ARMSTRONG #14 NYCC VARIANT BY CLAYTON HENRY

All-star artist Clayton Henry (Harbinger Wars, Archer & Armstrong) returns with a fan-tastic NYCC-exclusive variant cover to Archer & Armstrong #14, featuring the explosive opening chapter of the all-new story arc – SECT CIVIL WAR!

X-O MANOWAR DELUXE EDITION BOOK ONE – SIGNED BY ROBERT VENDITTI & CARY NORD

The very first oversized hardcover collection of X-O Manowar debuts at NYCC – with a special bookplate signed by New York Times best-selling writer Robert Venditti (Green Lantern, The Surrogates) and Eisner Award-winning artist Cary Nord (Conan)!

Valiant in December 2013

Posted on September 14, 2013 by Brett

SHADOWMAN #13 (NEW ARC)

Written by PETER MILLGAN
Art & Cover by ROBERTO DE LA TORRE
Pullbox Exclusive Variant by MIGUEL SEPULVEDA
Variant Cover by BEN TEMPLESMITH
Variant Cover by SHANE DAVIS

All-new creative team… All-new arc… All-new beginning! Comics icon Peter Milligan and visionary artist Roberto De La Torre drag Jack Boniface into his blackest depths yet!

When a troubled young man with a history of violence and a penchant for blackouts meets an overwhelming source of power with a mystical scythe, the results are doomed to be destructive. A voodoo loa has possessed Jack Boniface – or so he believes. But after Jack awakens in an alleyway covered in blood, he embarks on a journey across lands of shadows and death to discover if he can expel the dark force that’s seized control of his life…and which may be responsible for a violent rampage throughout New Orleans…

$3.99/T+/32 pgs.
ON SALE DECEMBER 4^th!

UNITY #2

Written by MATT KINDT
Art & Cover by DOUG BRAITHWAITE
Variant Cover by TRAVEL FOREMAN
Variant Cover by CARY NORD

Broken but not beaten…

Unity has to put down X-O Manowar and avert nuclear war. But Harada’s super-team lasted a grand total of five minutes last issue before they were taken out. Time for Unity 2.0…but how do you get a cast of malcontents, egotists, immortal warriors, and manipulative backstabbers to work together? The answer? You don’t tell them they’re working together.

$3.99/T+/32 pgs.
ON SALE DECEMBER 11^th!

X-O MANOWAR #20 (UNITY TIE-IN)

Written by ROBERT VENDITTI
Art by CARY NORD
Cover by KALMAN ANDRASOFSZKY
Variant Cover by MIGUEL SEPULVEDA

UNITY TIE-IN! Head-to-head with Toyo Harada and the forces of UNITY!

X-O Manowar finally has it all, and his people finally have a land they can call home…but threats from all sides now threaten to destroy Aric and the peace he has struggled to secure. While unrest stirs and Aric’s camp threatens to rebel against him, the most dangerous strike force ever assembled – UNITY – have joined forces with the Harbinger Foundation’s Toyo Harada to achieve but one goal: kill Aric of Dacia. Robert Venditti and Cary Nord ratchet up their standalone story arc at the heart of the year’s biggest comic book event!

$3.99/T+/32 pgs.
ON SALE DECEMBER 18^th!

QUANTUM AND WOODY #6

Written by JAMES ASMUS
Art by MING DOYLE
Cover by CLAYTON CRAIN
Variant Cover by KALMAN ANDRASOFSZKY

Bravely laying their lives on the line!

…(Unwittingly to uphold the ideals of a multi-billion-dollar private security corporation)…Quantum and Woody have blundered into a suicide mission! And if they make it out alive, it only means a whole new world of trouble for our dyadic duo!

$3.99/T+/32 pgs.
ON SALE DECEMBER 4^th!

ARCHER & ARMSTRONG #16 (SECT CIVIL WAR)

Written by FRED VAN LENTE
Art by KHARI EVANS
Cover by CLAYTON HENRY
Variant Cover by MICHAEL WALSH

Showdown on the lowdown! The secret factions of Sect Civil War steamroll into their biggest battle yet!

$3.99/T+/32 pgs.
ON SALE DECEMBER 11^th!

ETERNAL WARRIOR #4

Written by GREG PAK
Art by TREVOR HAIRSINE & CLAYTON CRAIN
Cover by LEWIS LAROSA
Variant Cover by MICO SUAYAN
Valiant Signature Series Variant by MARK MORETTI

Fist and steel, blood and bone.

Gilad Anni-Padda is the Earth’s sworn champion…but 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 today…and even the bravest warriors must fall sometime…

$3.99/T+/32 pgs.
ON SALE DECEMBER 18^th!

BLOODSHOT AND H.A.R.D. CORPS #17

Written by CHRISTOS GAGE & JOSHUA DYSART
Art by EMANUELA LUPACCHINO
Cover by RILEY ROSSMO
Variant Cover by EMANUELA LUPACCHINO

How does a rookie member of H.A.R.D. Corps take on Toyo Harada? With his life insurance paid up.

Bloodshot’s H.A.R.D. Corps team and the uber-powerful Toyo Harada go head-to-head with the future of the Harbinger Foundation at stake. Can this group of physically, mentally and emotionally damaged living weapons survive a battle with the most powerful man in the world? And if they do survive, just how does one walk out of a war zone unscathed?

$3.99/T+/32 pgs.
ON SALE DECEMBER 18^th!

HARBINGER #19

Written by JOSHUA DYSART
Art by BARRY KITSON
Cover by KHARI EVANS
Variant Cover by ANDY FRIEDMAN

Perfect Day no more!

The grim truth behind the most shocking arc of Harbinger yet is finally revealed. Peter Stanchek prepares for the mental battle of his life, with the fate and freedom of his fellow Renegades hanging in the balance!

$3.99/T+/32 pgs.
ON SALE DECEMBER 11^th!

ARCHER & ARMSTRONG VOL. 3: FAR FARAWAY TPB

Written by FRED VAN LENTE
Art by PERE PEREZ and CLAYTON HENRY
Cover by CLAYTON HENRY

Castaways in the Faraway!

Mary-Maria, Archer’s arch-nemesis/love interest/adopted sister, is back and dead-set on taking over the Sect by any means necessary. What better way to seize control of the most secret of secret societies than by unlocking their most secretive of secrets inside the secretest place on Earth? Now, as Mary-Maria sneaks her way inside Area 51 to claim a long-hidden prize, Archer & Armstrong are about to discover the forbidden history that binds America’s blackest black-ops base to the time-lost lands of the Faraway – and wind up fighting their way through each of its tightly guarded mysteries, one punch at a time.

Collecting ARCHER & ARMSTRONG #0 and ARCHER & ARMSTRONG #10-13 by New York Times best-selling writer Fred Van Lente (Amazing Spider-Man) and artists Clayton Henry (Incredible Hercules) and Pere Perez (Harbinger Wars), follow Valiant’s conspiracy-busting adventurers from the pages of their saga-smashing zero issue and into their most dangerous mission yet, right here in the next epic volume of the series that IGN calls “the most fun you’ll have in a ‘superhero’ comic”.

$14.99/T+/128 pages
TRADE PAPERBACK
ISBN: 978-1-939346-14-8
ON SALE DECEMBER 4^th!

X-O MANOWAR VOL. 4: HOMECOMING TPB

Written by ROBERT VENDITTI
Art by LEE GARBETT
Cover by CLAYTON CRAIN

To this king…a kingdom.

With his nation state of Dacia fortified in eastern Romania, X-O Manowar has bent the world to his will. But he will not stand unopposed. With the assembled forces of the United Nations and NATO primed to assail the newly founded homeland of the Visigoth people, the man inside the indestructible Manowar armor is about find himself more vulnerable than ever – and with everything he holds dear on the threshold of a terrible turning point for the Valiant Universe…

Collecting X-O MANOWAR #15-18 and featuring X-O Manowar’s first explosive confrontation with the Eternal Warrior, start reading here as New York Times best-selling writer Robert Venditti (Green Lantern) and acclaimed artist Lee Garbett (Batman R.I.P.) launch a bold new era for the series that SuperHeroHype calls “a must read.”

$14.99/T+/112 pages
TRADE PAPERBACK
ISBN: 978-1-939346-17-9
ON SALE DECEMBER 24^th!