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The deadly campaign of the most powerful psiot in the Valiant Universe continues! In the present: Toyo Harada finds himself and The Foundation Zone under attack by a coalition of world governments, as one of his own teammates begins to turn on him. In the past: Toyo Harada escapes Japan aboard a fishing vessel, and sets sail for the new world.

Sometimes gunslingers go out the hard way. H.A.R.D. Corps has just experienced its first fatality. Bloodshot is severely weakened. He and Charlie are at each other?s throats. And the new rookies are a mess. It would be suicide to take on Harada now?so that?s exactly what they?ll do.

Outside the law. Inside your head. Welcome to the Harbinger Foundation. The hunt for Peter Stanchek intensifies after an epic battle with Pittsburgh S.W.A.T forces him to use his powers out in the open. Now he faces the most difficult decision of his life. Continue to put his friends in harm?s way?or abandon them for the safety of Toyo Harada?s Harbinger Foundation?

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?

?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!

Re-presenting Valiant?s sold-out crossover event in complete chronological order! From New York Times best-selling creators Robert Venditti (X-O Manowar,?The Flash), Matt Kindt (Rai,?Mind MGMT), Joshua Dysart (Harbinger,?Unknown Soldier), Doug Braithwaite (Unity,?Justice), and more top talents, the acclaimed Armor Hunters saga gets the deluxe oversized hardcover treatment with more than 20+ pages of never-before-seen bonus materials! When Aric of Dacia returned to Earth with the stolen X-O Manowar armor of an alien race, he thought he?d finally found a weapon to guard the peace and kingdom he?d struggled so long to secure. But now, a relentless and surgical strike team from the farthest reaches of space ? sworn to exterminate the armor and all like it ? have found their final target. The Armor Hunters are coming. They will hunt. They will trap. They will kill. And they will rid the universe of the X-O Manowar armor?s incalculable destructive power...even if it means taking the Earth with it. Collecting ARMOR HUNTERS #1?4, ARMOR HUNTERS: AFTERMATH #1, ARMOR HUNTERS: BLOODSHOT #1?3, ARMOR HUNTERS: HARBINGER #1?3, UNITY #8?11 and X-O MANOWAR #23?29, with more than 20+ pages of bonus content and rarely seen special features.

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.

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.

?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?

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!

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.

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?!

The HARBINGER WARS heat up Las Vegas! After decades of secret conflict, Toyo Harada has managed in one fell swoop to cripple Project Rising Spirit through the masterful manipulation of key players in the Valiant Universe. Now he wants the psiot children Bloodshot rescued from the bowels of a nightmarish PRS facility. Too bad. This rogue band of super-powered escapees have begun to call themselves GENERATION ZERO and they?ve declared a war of their own. First strike: Vegas, baby! And while PRS fashions a radical plan for getting the kids back, Peter Stanchek and the Renegades are following visions right into the heart of the Harbinger Wars.

MISSION: IMPROBABLE ? FINALE! Bloodshot! Archer! H.A.R.D. Corps! Armstrong! It all comes down to this!! ?Mission: Improbable? rockets into its explosive climax as four world-shattering forces collide! Will Bloodshot re-capture Archer for Project Rising Spirit?or is a double-cross in the works?! Will H.A.R.D. Corps figure out how you kill an immortal like Armstrong?or are they going home in body bags? Only one thing?s for certain?it doesn?t matter who loses ? you win!

THE LIFE AND DEATH OF TOYO HARADA will place the planet?s most powerful man in the spotlight as he strives to control the course of history. But with the menacing mastermind?s resources dwindling after the downfall of the Harbinger Foundation and a target on his head, will the formidable psiot re-emerge as humanity?s greatest hero?or its most dangerous villain?

Deepak Chopra (The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success, How to Know God), brings the Buddha 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. 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 spiritual one, Buddha, captivates and inspires ¨C ultimately leading us closer to understanding the true nature of life and our selves.

Re-presenting Valiant?s best-selling crossover event in complete chronological order, the acclaimed Harbinger Wars saga gets the deluxe oversized hardcover treatment ? with more than 20+ pages of bonus content and rarely-seen special features! When an untrained and undisciplined team of super-powered test subjects escape from Project Rising Spirit and onto the Vegas Strip, Bloodshot and the Harbinger Renegades will find themselves locked in battle against a deadly succession of opponents ? and each other. As the combined forces of the H.A.R.D. Corps, Generation Zero, and omega-level telekinetic Toyo Harada all descend on Las Vegas to vie for the control of Rising Spirit?s deadliest assets, the world is about to discover the shocking price of an all-out superhuman conflict?and no one will escape unscathed. Who will survive the Harbinger Wars? Collecting HARBINGER WARS #1-4, HARBINGER #11-14, BLOODSHOT #10-13 and material from the HARBINGER WARS SKETCHBOOK, the Harbinger Wars Deluxe Edition HC is the only place to find the complete story of the groundbreaking crossover that IGN calls ?one hell of a ride.?

Dead. Means. Dead.

Cold war no more! Peter Stanchek. Toyo Harada. The two most destructive superpowers in the world ? literally ? have come to a reckoning of will, and in the fallout of their cataclysmic con?ict, each will come to grips with a world in which the other is free?and unchecked. Their former families, the Harbinger Foundation and the Renegades, lie in shards around them. What will stop these men ? either of them ? from reducing the world to ashes?

One of the Renegades is dead?but the battle isn?t over yet. The penultimate issue of the most important Harbinger story ever told is almost here, and the countdown to the ?EVERYTHING CHANGES,? mind-shattering spectacular of Harbinger #25 is heading toward you like a freight train. Hold on tight!

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.

An all-new interpretation of the classic DC character! Welcome to Northern Uganda. In 2002, it''s a place where tourists are hacked to death with machetes, 12-year-olds with AK-47s wage war, and celebrities futilely try to get people to care. Moses Lwanga is a pacifist doctor caught at the center. But when his life is threatened, Moses suddenly realizes he knows how to kill all too well. What is this voice telling him the only way to fix what''s wrong with the country is by slaughtering those responsible? And what is Moses'' connection to another past bandage-wrapped warrior?

"Contains materials originally published in single magazine form as Harbinger: Omegas #1-3 and Harbinger: bleeding monk, #0"--Indicia.

?It matters not how man dies, but how he lives.? The team has been shattered and a teenage Renegade lies dead ? a victim of the Harbinger Foundation led by omega-powered psionic Toyo Harada. This is the story of what happens next. Out of the ashes of Harbinger #25, find out what happens when the full extent of Harada?s secret empire is exposed to the public, and just the how the surviving members of the Renegades recover from a catastrophic loss that has changed their lives? their team? and their destinies forever.

UNA HISTORIA SOBRE EL PASADO DEL DOCTOR TREVOR BRUTTENHOLM, EL PADRE ADOPTIVO DE HELLBOYMike Mignola, Joshua Dysart y Paul Azaceta unen sus talentos por primera vez para crear un nuevo tomo de las aventuras de la AIDP. Berlín, 1946, la Segunda Guerra Mundial ha terminado, los nazis son el pasado. Los doctores Trevor Bruttenholm y Howard Eaton, en representación de la recién creada AIDP, buscan información sobre el pasado de Hellboy entre los hangares y archivos nazis. No la encuentran, pero sí algo mucho más interesante: el proyecto más oscuro y siniestro del fürher, el Vampir Sturm.

A prisoner of the Harbinger Wars?unleashed. While Peter and the Renegades deal with the devastating fallout of last summer?s blockbuster crossover event, an unforeseen threat to Toyo Harada?s empire lies dormant deep within the walls of Harada?s own fortified prison facility. The Valiant Universe gets larger as a fan favorite character from Harbinger Wars makes their triumphant return!

Wait, did we kill Toyo Harada in the middle of his own series? It is called THE LIFE AND DEATH OF TOYO HARADA, after all? A young Toyo spends some quality time with one of the most brilliant men in history: Albert Einstein. Yes, really. Things get veeeeery violent with Toyo?s savage alien friend, LV-99?

School is out. Of control. Inside the Harbinger Foundation, Peter Stanchek thought he would finally find freedom. Instead, he found a prison of his own design. As Peter begins to yearn for the comforts of his old life, he?s about to discover that leaving Harada?s program isn?t easy ? it?s impossible. As rebellion brews among his pupils, Harada must ask himself: has he been building an ally in Peter all this time ? or the perfect enemy?

The Great Conjunction is at hand in this dramatic second volume of Archaia and The Jim Henson Company''s trilogy of prequel graphic novels that tell the origin of the Dark Crystal. Aughra, the beloved guardian of Thra, has gone into hiding, while her son, Raunip, leads a team of emissaries to the Crystal Castle. There they will bear witness as the visiting Urskeks attempt to use the Conjunction to power their voyage home. But pain and mistrust fostered by the group leads to events that will corrupt the world to its very core and transform the Urskeks into two distinct races: the gentle urRu and the terrifying Skeksis. Brian Froud returns to oversee this crucial chapter that reveals the tragic events that caused the Bright Crystal to darken and shatter.

MISSION: IMPROBABLE ? PART TWO! Project Rising Spirit has sent Bloodshot and H.A.R.D. Corps, their all-or-nothing paramilitary team, after a rogue asset ? an assassin-turned-leader of a global fundamentalist terror sect ? and his immortal bodyguard. And their names just happen to be?Archer & Armstrong! Do Bloodshot and the steely killers of the H.A.R.D. Corps stand a chance against a teenager and a big sweaty drunk? The answer may surprise you!

Toyo Harada strikes back! In the aftermath of the tragic firestorm between the world?s most powerful omega-level psiot and his wayward heir, casualties were claimed on both sides. Now, the last remnants of each opposing force ? the Harbinger Foundation and the surviving Renegades ? have been shattered and driven deep underground. But Toyo Harada ? newly exposed as the world?s foremost superhuman ? has no one left to stop him?and his greatest work can finally begin?

A stand-alone story featuring guest art by Ronald Wimberly (LUCIFER, HELLBLAZER SPECIAL: PAPA MIDNITE). Led by a bizarre mentor, Alec begins to understand what happened when he shed his godlike elemental powers. This knowledge could turn the Swamp Thing''s remarkable life in a strange new direction.

Concluding the 2-part story ÒMeasure of Faith,Ó featuring guest art by Timothy Green II (FRACTION) and a chilling cover by John Totleben. Swamp Thing discovers the terrible secret of the Riverside preacher, and it could cost everything for JakeÕs father.

"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.

Harbinger team-up! Mexico City just became ground zero for the Armor Hunters? invasion of Earth, and the runaway army of super-powered soldiers called Generation Zero needs to bring in back-up. Better call?the Renegades?! But when powerhouse brawler Torque and lighter-than-air free spirit Zephyr join the ?ght, things are about to go from bleak to brutal as the Earth?s ?rst extraterrestrial invasion force unleashes an engine of global destruction with one sole purpose ? to terminate?with extreme prejudice.

Under siege?and out of control! The Armor Hunters have decimated a major metropolis, and the battle to save the survivors still rages. In the midst of the devastation, the volatile team of Harbinger Foundation escapees called Generation Zero are about to stumble headlong into an insidious alien counteroffensive ? one with the potential to bring down not just a city, but the entire world. When push comes to shove, can this group of immensely powerful, immensely temperamental teenagers be trusted to repel the Armor Hunters? second wave? Absolutely not?but they?re the only chance we?ve got!

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.

Nothing is what it seems when hyper-psychics go to war. Scattered across their own mental landscapes, each one of the remaining Renegades must quest to unite with the others or be lost forever inside themselves. It will take courage, strength, imagination and an unwavering belief in one another if they?re going to discover the dark truth behind their Perfect Day.

Rise to power! Toyo Harada, CEO of Harada Global Conglomerates and the most potent known psionic in the world, has a vision for the perfect future. A vision he will realize with or without the consent of the rest of humanity. In order to achieve it, he?s built a private army of super-powered hyper-telekinetics within the Harbinger Foundation. But who was Harada before he became the world?s most powerful man? And what are the origins of his vast ambitions? Don?t miss those answers and more in this special standalone issue that will define the future of the Valiant Universe.

The horrifying four-part "Bleeding Raconteur" story arc comes to its dramatic conclusion! With Swamp Thing in her grotesque clutches, Hagar hopes to finally destroy the protector of the Bayou once and for all. But the Stories have their own vendetta against both creatures, and see an opportunity to make their final move.