New Releases by Bob Layton

Learn the secrets of Grandmother''s millennia long rule of Japan, the long lost Blood of Heroes, and long untold episode of Unity, in this tale of Shu Sugino...the rebel Rai!

At a ski resort in Aspen, Colorado, Carmen and Hwen are stalked by a deadly, protean servant of Master Darque looking for a reservoir of necromantic power to feed on.

To distract her from their marital frustrations, Carmen takes on a consulting job investigating a possessed man. In the mean time, Dr. Mirage''s mother decides now is the perfect time to visit her son. How will Dr. Mirage be able to break the news to his mother that he''s become a phantom?!

While Carmen struggles to make Hwen corporeal again, Master Darque lures the couple into his latest nefarious plan involving a strong man, a demolitions expert -- and Shadowman!?

While trying to sort out their shambled home, the Chaos Effect begins and makes Dr. Mirage corporeal again! Could the evil Master Darque be behind this strange phenomenon? Or is the cause something even more terrifying?

Pursued by Master Darque and an army of the undead, Dr. Mirage and his wife flee through the snowy slopes of Tibet. Slowly, Dr. Mirage realizes the nature of his new ghostly form, all the while seeking a way to defeat the rage of Darque.

Back home in Miami, the Carmen and Dr. Mirage are facing the difficulties of a life together: how can one hold a ghost? Meanwhile, Master Darque begins to plot his revenge...

Mama Fong arrives at the worst possible time -- just as the battle between Dr. Mirage and the shape shifter, The Otherman, is getting heated! But what can this strange villain be after? Will he stop at nothing to sabotage the Harbinger Foundation''s aerospace program and make Carmen his?!

Hwen''s hunger pains indicate his powers are fading -- and only Sandria Darque can help. In the face of this startling realization, the doctor decides to take up cooking.

Maniac, Hammerhead, Shakespeare, Superstar and Gunslinger -- brought back to life from a comatose state by Omen Enterprises with bleeding-edge technology neural implants that allow them to mimic Harbinger abilities one at a time. Their mission: to oppose the machinations of Toyo Harada and the Harbinger Foundation. Together they make up the elite of the Harbinger Active Resistance Division -- the H.A.R.D. Corps!

Shakespeare''s AWOL and the H.A.R.D. Corps team is faced with a perilous decision -- rescue their colleague from the nest of alien spiders in Oregon, or stop Harada from buying his own country?

The team travels to the Oregon wilderness to infiltrate a nest of alien arachnids and their strange machines. Meanwhile, Hotshot is inducted into the corps.

With the main H.A.R.D. Corps team recovering from injuries, the ""B"" Team attempts to take out Harada. When the three-member strike team ends up out of their league against a team of Eggbreakers, the ""A"" Team comes to the rescue. And, a rookie makes the big leagues.

Tensions run high when the team starts breaking in Maniac''s new replacement. Flatline''s first day back to life in the H.A.R.D. Corps may just be his last when things go disastrously wrong during his first live fire exercise.

With one of their own dead at the hands of one Harada''s Eggbreakers, things are getting desperate for the team when the Harbinger Foundation tracks the team to their base of operations. But it''ll take more than that to keep the H.A.R.D. Corps down as the team goes on an unauthorized excursion to get payback for Maniac!

""Seed of Destruction - Part 2"" From fitful dreams, Aric wakes to discover the good skin is taking him into the far reaches of space! There Rexo and the last of Aric''s one-time captors lie in wait, desperate to claim the Manowar armor as their own!

""Revival: Lifelines Part 1"" Obadiah Archer is a boy with a special talent and some very unusual parents. Once he escapes their clutches, he embarks on an international adventure that will take him from the sacred halls of a Tibetan monstrary to the filthy underpasses of Los Angeles. And when a mysterious stranger hires him to assassinate the inebriated immortal known as Armstrong, the world''s most mismatched crimfighting duo is born!

""Besieged: Homecoming Part 1"" Aric is returned to his own time and, with the power of the X-O armor at his command, he''s determined to lay waste to the Roman Empire once and for all! But have his adventures in time and space changed him too much for his family, his love and his people to welcome this man returned with the power of a god?

""Crossroads"" Aric''s will to live is tested to its absolute limit as he leads his army of time-tossed barbarians to war against a trans-temporal empire!

""Power Play"" The showdown with the machine-controlling villain Ax continues, but with his control of the X-O Manowar armor scrambled can Aric still prevail? Aric will show Ax what he does to bandits and Ken what he does to traitors!

Iron Man faces his most untouchable foe in criminal industrialist Justin Hammer and his literal army of super-villains! But can the Armored Avenger overcome an even more implacable personal demon, invulnerable to technology or wealth? Collects Iron Man (1968) #120-128.