Best Selling Books by Joshua Dysart

Part 1 of the astonishing 2-part story ÒMeasure of Faith,Ó featuring guest art by Timothy Green II (FRACTION) and a gripping cover by legendary SWAMP THING illustrator John Totleben. With Swamp Thing struggling to make sense of his shattered life and Houma recovering from all the horrors of its past spilling up from the depths of Hell, a strange ÒpreacherÓ appears, offering a macabre salvation to the townÕs people. But his true agenda may be too frightening to contemplate.

It turns out that nightmares are just dreams too. Heading west, the Renegades have found themselves at the end of Route 66 in a little town called Los Angeles, California. But the war they left behind is still waging, somehow, unseen just below the surface of the sun and surf. What if it will never end? What if there is no escape? What if wherever they go, they carry the war inside them? It has long been said that the City of Angels is a place where anything can happen? where reality is pliable and dreams are made real in the blink of an eye. Now, like the decades of wannabe starlets and rockers before them, the Renegades are about to find out that having your dreams come true is severely overrated.

Charlene Dupre feels like she?s been on fire since the day she was born. Too hot to handle, abused and misused, she?s turned to a dead-end life on the sleazy side of the New Orleans streets. But when Peter and his strange band of teenagers with wondrous powers walk into the strip club where she works, Charlene discovers the heat that?s been burning her up inside is the only thing that can set her free. Meanwhile, Project Rising Spirit closes in on Peter Stanchek, the most dangerous boy in the world. Vengeance, acceptance and fire. Meet the next member of the Harbinger Resistance as ?Renegades? begins a brand new chapter!

ALL-NEW ARC! DEATH OF A RENEGADE ? PART 1 (of 3)! Peter Stanchek and his wayward team of teenage Renegades thought they had found freedom. They thought they could get their old lives back. They thought they could bring down Toyo Harada and the Harbinger Foundation. They were wrong. And now one of them will die.

HARBINGER WARS tie-in! The Renegades vs. Bloodshot! At last, the battle you?ve been waiting for! But the Harbinger hunter called Bloodshot is a much more dangerous ? and much more clever ? foe than Peter Stanchek and the Renegades ever could have anticipated. Plus: what is the secret of Toyo Harada?s first Harbinger War?

Toyo Harada and Peter Stanchek. Master and apprentice. Creator and destroyer. Alpha and omega. Humanity?s most powerful psionic, Pete Stanchek, has been run to ground. His few friends and family are gone. He is loved is by no one. At the nadir of his brief, 18-year existence, he has been drugged, deceived and deluded by a corporate master. But now he?s finally had enough. Tonight, the human race will find out exactly how powerful he is. Tonight, the boy who has nothing will go to war against the man who has everything. And soon the Valiant Universe will discover that anything can end ? even the world.

The world?s most powerful team of mercenaries is on the defense?as an elite international kill squad led by Livewire and H.A.R.D. Corps? Major Charlie Palmer descends to destroy Imperium?s stronghold!? Toyo Harada will save the world...if he doesn?t doom it first. The revolutionary disruption that Harada and his team have launched ? by deposing tyrants, housing refugees, and feeding the poor ? has come at the expense of the world?s wealthiest nations. When the planet?s leaders have had enough, it will be decided: Toyo Harada must die. Now a crack unit of operatives will stand against Harada on the global stage...with his own former pupil, Livewire, taking him head-on. The war starts here as New York Times best-selling writer Joshua Dysart (HARBINGER WARS) and Harvey Award nominated artist Khari Evans (HARBINGER,?The Immortal Iron Fist) unite for an explosive new chapter...pitting the Valiant Universe?s notorious team of monsters and revolutionaries against the very system they?ve sworn to overthrow! Collecting?IMPERIUM #13-16.

"Healing the Breach" Part 2 of 4. While Swamp Thing battles a strange bio-tech invader in the Green, Professor Schiller gives up his conscious mind and commits to reliving the final days of his relationship with Alec Holland''s first wife, Linda. Out in the Gulf of Mexico, a strange uncurling beast living at the bottom of the polluted "Dead Zone" begins to rise. The Louisiana storm season has begun.

Hot off THE LOSERS, fan-favorite Jock illustrates a special standalone story. Over the years, Swamp Thing has been accountable for many casualties in the swamp. But when he''s found responsible for one particular death, Swamp Thing himself might find his own actions unforgivable.

From Bestselling author Deepak Chopra Deepak Chopra brings the Buddha back to life in this stunning graphic novel adaptation of the New York Times Bestselling novel about a young prince who abandons his inheritance to discover his true calling. His iconic journey changed the world forever, and the truths revealed continue to influence every corner of the globe today. A young man in line for the throne is trapped in his father''s kingdom and yearns for the outside world. Betrayed by those closest to him, Siddhartha abandons his palace and princely title. Alone and face-to-face with his demons, he becomes a wandering monk and embarks on a spiritual fast that carries him to the brink of death. Ultimately recognizing his inability to conquer his body and mind by sheer will, Siddhartha transcends his physical pain and achieves enlightenment. Although we recognize Buddha today as an icon of peace and serenity, his life story was a tumultuous and spellbinding affair filled with love and sex, murder and loss, struggle and surrender. From the rocky terrain of the material world to the summit of the spiritual one, Buddha captivates and inspires - ultimately leading us closer to understanding the true nature of life and our selves.

BLOODSHOT VS. H.A.R.D. CORPS ? ROUND II! The six men and women of H.A.R.D. Corps are all that stand between Bloodshot and everything he?s ever wanted ? the total destruction of Project Rising Spirit. The clock is ticking down to zero, the stakes are life-or-death?and no one in this fight has anything left to lose.

Post-corporate warfare just got a whole lot deadlier. Trapped in an enemy stronghold, Bloodshot has been broken ? dismantled piece-by-piece, nanite-by-nanite by the Harbinger Foundation?s most disturbed minds! But when Bloodshot?s signal goes dark, who can the black ops military contractor known as Rising Spirit bring in to recover its most expensive soldier? Time to call in?H.A.R.D. Corps!

Is Toyo Harada really dead? The long-lost secret of Harada?s estranged son revealed! Harada?s final allies stand strong as they protect their master?s vision!

Lead or die. Peter Stanchek is about to face his toughest test yet. Trapped between the opposing forces of Toyo Harada?s Eggbreakers and Project Rising Spirit, Peter Stanchek and his wayward band of renegade telekinetics are about to find themselves in a vicious, three-way firefight. Can they put aside their fears and do battle as the team they?ll need to be to survive? The Renegades are about to make their big debut ? and, when the smoke clears, the Valiant Universe is going to be a very different place.

A better future. Or no future at all. Super-powered teenager Peter Stanchek is on a dangerous path. Skipping across the country in a desperate attempt to stay one step ahead of the authorities, Peter is quickly realizing that he?s a psionically-charged ?harbinger? with the potential to reshape the course of human history. But Peter?s plight has not gone unnoticed. Respected philanthropist and fellow harbinger Toyo Harada is about to offer Peter the chance at the things for which the boy has always longed ? family, inner peace, self-control ? and induct him into the sprawling, secret network of conspiracy and subversion known as the Harbinger Foundation. Now Peter begins his long road towards a destiny that will shake the very foundations of the Valiant Universe. His first lesson? All power comes with a price. Collecting the first five issues of the critically acclaimed series by New York Times best-selling author Joshua Dysart (Unknown Soldier), acclaimed artists Khari Evans (Carbon Grey) and Lewis Larosa (PunisherMAX), this is the perfect place to catch up with the series that Comic Book Resources calls ?superheroes at its best?.

Dead. Means. Dead.

Choosing sides is never easy ? especially when the decision could get you killed. As the Harbinger Wars reach their boiling point, Peter and his team must decide what role to play as the lines between friend and foe blur and the casualties pile high all around them. But just when all seems lost, a new ally will emerge from the unlikeliest of places ? and Peter Stanchek?s ragtag band of teenage psiots will add a new hero to their ranks. Who will join the Harbinger Renegades?!