New Releases by Matt Kindt

From New York Times bestselling Mind MGMT creator Matt Kindt comes an exciting undersea sci-fi mystery. With the deep-sea base on the brink of destruction, Mia is getting closer and closer to discovering the culprit behind the murder of her father. However, as the crew struggles to survive, revelations of the Dept. H project comes to light that will alter the lives of the crew, if they survive. Life on the surface hangs in the balance as Mia races against time. This Omnibus Edition collects Issues #13-24 of Dept. H, as well as a sketchbook section and bonus material!

From New York Times bestselling and Harvey award-winning graphic novelist Matt Kindt comes a globe-spanning tale of espionage, top-secret government programs, conspiracy, and weaponized amnesia. Reeling from her confrontation with The Eraser, Meru is trapped in a world of rogue Mind Managers. Meru decides that in order to save the world, she''ll need the help of the elusive First Immortal. However, it remains to be seen if Meru and her allies will be able to stop The Eraser''s new Mind Management before time runs out! Collects volumes 5 and 6 of the Mind MGMT series.

The Black Badges are a top-secret branch of boy scouts, tasked with covert missions that no adult could ever undertake. But little do they know, their troop is not alone... sent to a private island off the north shore of Oahu, the team must battle against other elite scouts in a grueling, dangerous competition that will test their skills like never before, all the while investigating the disappearance of their former friend. The Eisner Award-nominated creative team behind Grass Kings reunites for Black Badge Volume Two, as New York Times bestseller Matt Kindt (Mind MGMT) and illustrators Tyler Jenkins (Peter Panzerfaust) and Hilary Jenkins filter a sobering tale of societal decay through the eyes of the children tasked with cleaning up the mess. Collects issues #5-8.

From New York Times bestselling and Harvey award-winning graphic novelist Matt Kindt comes a globe-spanning tale of espionage, top-secret government programs, conspiracy, and weaponized amnesia. Meru''s hunt for answers about the dismantled government Mind MGMT program and its rogue agent Henry Lyme lead her to confront super spies, the competing mission of the deadly agent "The Eraser", and discovering some buried memories of her own. Collects volumes 3 and 4 of the Mind MGMT series--a story that''s optioned for film by Ridley Scott (Alien, Blade Runner).

From New York Times bestselling Mind MGMT creator Matt Kindt comes an exciting undersea sci-fi mystery. Mia is a special investigator hired to uncover possible sabotage taking place at a deep-sea research station, where a bitter and paranoid crew try to keep the base functional. What she uncovers is a mind-blowing crime scene filled with suspects with terrible secrets, strange deep-sea creatures, and an impending flood! This Omnibus Edition collects Issues #1-12 of Dept. H!

This globe-spanning tale of espionage explores the adventures of a journalist investigating the mystery of a commercial flight where everyone aboard loses their memories Meru''s obsession with Flight 815 leads her to a much bigger story of a top-secret government Mind MGMT program. Her ensuing journey involves weaponized psychics, hypnotic advertising, talking dolphins, and seemingly immortal pursuers, as she hunts down the flight''s missing passenger, the man who was Mind MGMT''s greatest success--and its most devastating failure. But in a world where people can rewrite reality itself, can she trust anything she sees? Collects the first two volumes of the Mind MGMT series from New York Times bestselling and Eisner-nominated creator Matt Kindt--a story that''s optioned for film by Ridley Scott (Alien, Blade Runner).

THEIR WORLD BECAME HIS WAR! New York Times best-selling writer Matt Kindt (DIVINITY, Mind MGMT) is joined by master storytellers Tom?s Giorello (BLOODSHOT REBORN), Doug Braithwaite (ARMOR HUNTERS), Clayton Crain (RAI), Ryan Bodenheim (The Dying & The Dead), and more, in a deluxe edition hardcover of the Eisner Award-nominated first year of the series named one of the year''s best by SYFY Wire, ComicBook.com, IGN, and many more! Deep within the far reaches of space, the dogs of war have found Aric of Dacia. Conscripted into an alien army and forced into combat, Aric must enter an alien battlefield unlike any he?s faced before. His only hope for survival is also the source of his greatest rage ? the living suit of armor known as X-O Manowar. With it, he will decimate armies, topple empires, and incite interplanetary warfare as he rises from soldier? to general? to emperor! They wanted a weapon. He will give them war! Collecting X-O MANOWAR (2017) #1?14, along with more than 20 pages of rarely seen art and extras for a complete, definitive edition of the ultimate X-O Manowar tale!

From New York Times bestselling Mind MGMT creator MATT KINDT and Black Hammer''s DAVID RUBÍN comes this fantasy adventure about a science-minded hero intent on keeping the balance between Earth and a magic world! Portals between Earth and the Ether begin to crack open unleashing devastating magical fury on our planet and only adventurer Boone Dias can seal the breaches. In order to put an end to this chaos, Boone recruits a powerful team of mystical beings including a grumpy, spell-writing fairy; a bickering, lavender gorilla; and a bull-headed, motorcycling, spell-hacker. These heroes set off on a journey taking the reader through the center of volcanoes, deserts full of living mummies and sphinxes, and a bizarre fairy forest in an effort to save both worlds from complete destruction! Collecting issues #1-5 of Ether series II and featuring a sketchbook section with bonus art from PAUL POPE, MIKE ALLRED, BILL SIENKIEWICZ, MARCOS MARTÍN and JEN BARTEL!

Matt Kindt and Tyler Jenkins, the Eisner Award-nominated team behind Grass Kings, reunite for a new ongoing series about a top-secret, elite branch of boy scouts tasked by the government to take on covert missions. Among their organization, the Black Badges are the elite; the best of the best. They are feared even by the other badges. The missions they take are dangerous, and they will only get worse as their leader’s attention is split between their mission and tracking down a lost team member. A member who disappeared years ago, presumed dead. A haunting look at foreign policy, culture wars and isolationism through the lens of kids who know they must fix the world that adults have broken.

From New York Times bestselling and Harvey award-winning Mind MGMT graphic novelist Matt Kindt comes a decades-spanning tale of love, secrets, aging, espionage, and family. Craig Pressgang''s life is well documented in his official CIA biography, Giant Man: Pillar of America, but the heroic picture it paints is only half the story. The continuous growth caused by Craig''s strange gigantism brings a variety of problems as he becomes more isolated and unknowable. Told during three eras by three different women with unique relationships with nearly three story tall Craig, 3 Story follows his sad life from his birth to the present.

THE SEISMIC COMICS EVENT OF 2018 STARTS HERE! From New York Times best-selling writer Matt Kindt (X-O MANOWAR. DIVINITY, Mind MGMT) and superstar artist Tom?s Giorello (X-O MANOWAR), the most powerful Valiant event ever attempted erupts in full force as X-O Manowar, Livewire, the Harbinger Renegades, Bloodshot, the Secret Weapons, Ninjak, and a cast of thousands draw their battle lines in HARBINGER WARS 2! For the rare and immensely powerful subset of humanity known as psiots, their unique abilities have come with an enormous cost. Once, their existence was known only to a select few. Now, the revelation that thousands of these latent telekinetic ?harbingers? secretly live among us?with the potential to be activated at any moment?has led the American government to a dramatic tipping point? Armed with new extra-governmental authority, the deep-black military contractor known as Omen has been authorized to identify, evaluate, and, if need be, eliminate all super-normal threats to the homeland. H.A.R.D. Corps units have been deployed into cities and towns across the United States to enforce their orders. In the East, one of the most powerful minds on Earth, Peter Stanchek, is leading his band of Renegades across the country, activating any potential psiots willing to join them, and building an insurrection force of ultra-powerful and unwieldy new abilities that will soon bring war to Omen?s doorstep?and the unstoppable force known as X-O Manowar raging back to Earth? In the West, Livewire ? the telekinetic technopath with the ability to bend machines and computers to her will ? will be forced to choose between her former allies?or her newfound team of Secret Weapons. As the situation escalates beyond human control, the United States will be plunged into darkness from coast to coast, launching Bloodshot and Ninjak into a dangerous mission to neutralize their one-time teammate ? and setting the stage for the most shocking, most violent, and most consequential clash of powers ever witnessed in the history of the Valiant Universe!

War returns to the Grass Kingdom.

THE MOMENT MORE THAN A YEAR IN THE MAKING! AT LAST ? X-O MANOWAR RETURNS TO EARTH! After a brutal year spent waging war on the far side of the galaxy, Aric of Dacia must now face the one thing he yearned to leave behind: planet Earth. But as the man called X-O Manowar prepares for a world-shaking homecoming, he must come to terms with a savage awakening inside himself?and the obligations that still await him on our world. Just as the forces of HARBINGER WARS 2 ? Valiant?s seismic 2018 crossover event ? begin to vie for Aric?s loyalties, a long-awaited reunion might just shatter everything we?ve come to believe about the fallen warrior-king in control of the universe?s most powerful weapon? The comics odyssey of a lifetime comes full circle as New York Times best-selling writer Matt Kindt (ETERNITY) and acclaimed artist Ariel Olivetti (Incredible Hulk) begin the countdown to HARBINGER WARS 2 with an inescapable turning point for the Valiant Universe?s unrelenting man of war!

From The New York Times bestselling writer Matt Kindt (Mind MGMT) and Peter Panzerfaust artist Tyler Jenkins comes a rural mystery series chronicling the tragic lives of the Grass Kings, three brothers and rulers of a community living off the grid and outside of the law. Eldest brother Robert has been a broken man since the disappearance of his daughter, but when a young woman swims across the great lake dividing the Grass Kingdom from the nearby city of Cargill in search of a safe haven, he must decide if getting a chance at atonement is worth risking the entire Kingdom. Collecting the first six issues of the acclaimed series.

Confronted with a deep-sea base that is slowly imploding, Mia gets one step closer to solving the murder of her father. But things won''t be that easy, as our small team of survivors but grapple with psychic jellyfish and exposure to mind-altering and potentially lethal pathogens that might just drive them insane before they can reach the surface. But even if they can survive all of this? The bigger question still remains--why aren''t they allowed to surface? The events above the waterline are starting to have major consequences for those that are trapped below. Mia may have figured out who murdered her father . . . but the motivation for the crime may prove even more devastating. • Featuring content exclusive to the single issues! • From New York Times bestselling author Matt Kindt (MIND MGMT, PastAways, Superspy)! • Written and drawn by Matt Kindt. • Intricate mystery stories perfect for any fan of crime and sci-fi fiction! • Collects Dept. H issues #13-18.

A VISIONARY NEW SERIES! From the minds of New York Times best-selling writer Matt Kindt (X-O MANOWAR, Mind MGMT) and blockbuster artist Trevor Hairsine (DIVINITY, X-Men: Deadly Genesis) comes an expedition into the Unknown. Beyond time? Beyond space? Beyond reality itself? ETERNITY awaits! This October, Valiant unveils a new plane of existence beyond our own and unleashes a universe of new worlds, new beings, and new myths?

A science-minded adventurer gets mixed up in the mysteries of a fantasy world in this charming new adventure from an award-winning creative team. Boone Dias is an interdimensional explorer, a scientist from Earth who has stumbled into great responsibility. He''s got an explanation for everything, so of course the Ether''s magical residents turn to him to solve their toughest crimes. But maybe keeping the Real and the Abstract separate is too big a job for just one man. From New York Times bestselling author Matt Kindt: an inter-dimensional, genre-bending, sci-fi, fantasy, horror, mystery adventure! From New York Times bestselling author Matt Kindt (MIND MGMT, PastAways, Superspy, Dept. H) Stunning artwork from David Rubín brings a magical world to life. Collects Issues #1-5 of Matt Kindt and David Rubín''s Ether

Six miles below the surface of the ocean, Mia has to solve a locked-room murder mystery before the crime scene is completely flooded. As the crew tries to save the Dept. H base from destruction, some of them start to take matters into their own hands. But the bottom of the ocean is full of unknown dangers, and with time running out, rescue is almost impossible. From New York Times bestselling author Matt Kindt (MIND MGMT, PastAways, Superspy)! Written and Drawn by Matt Kindt, with colors by Sharlene Kindt. Intricate mystery stories perfect for any fan of crime and sci-fi fiction! A complete arc: a perfect jumping-on point for new readers! "Kindt is a storyteller so fully in control of his gifts that his graphic novels read like quietly compelling arguments for the comics medium''s narrative potential."--NPR "Kindt has developed into one of the most exciting and original talents in the business" --The LA Times "Kindt breaks all pre-conceived notions of what comic books are."--IGN

Mia is a special investigator hired to uncover possible sabotage taking place at a deep-sea research station. What she uncovers is a mind-blowing crime scene filled with suspects with terrible secrets, strange deep-sea creatures, and an impending flood!

MARS REBORN! He was the last son of a dead world. But now that world lives again. Mars has risen from the ashes, and JÕonn JÕonzz, the Martian Manhunter, has returned to a life he never thought heÕd lead. But even though his world and his people have come back from the dead, theyÕve brought nothing but trouble with them. Somehow alive on this strange new world, the disparate aspects of JÕonnÕs fractured personality are not all on board with his plan to forsake his adopted home. Meanwhile, a tyrant rules the Red Planet with an iron fist. And for Mars to live, Earth needs to die. ItÕs up to the Martian Manhunter and his motley crew of allies to save two races and two worlds from annihilation. While the war rages from planet to planet, who will win the war withinÑthe Martian, or the man? Find out in MARTIAN MANHUNTER VOL. 2, the explosive next chapter in the acclaimed series from red-hot writer Rob Williams (SUICIDE SQUAD) and acclaimed illustrator Eddy Barrows (DETECTIVE COMICS)! Collects MARTIAN MANHUNTER #7-12 and JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #5.

Trapped in a flooding undersea base, Mia and the crew stumble upon a scientific discovery as their time is running out. They begin to fight among themselves about what to do with this valuable information, until one Dept. H crew member decides to take matters into his own hands. This comic does a great job of mixing hard science fiction with mystery and survival fiction, and it keeps you on your toes.u009dThe Fandom Post

The most ambitious comics event of 2016 brings war to the 41st century - with Rai leading the charge!? One hundred years from today, Father - the benevolent artificial intelligence that governs the island nation of Japan - will gain sentience. To defend its borders, Father will take drastic action by launching Japan into space...where its people will thrive in isolation, away from the overpopulated and resource-deprived planet below. Over the centuries, as New Japan orbits our increasingly unstable world, it will become a model society - one built on peace, prosperity... and Father?s control. A thousand years from today, Father will create the first Rai, founding a lineage of technologically enhanced heroes engineered to defend New Japan and sworn to protect it from all enemies. For hundreds of years into the future, the Rai will single-handedly enforce New Japan?s justice well...and serve Father without question. Now, at the dawn of 4001 A.D., the latest Rai is about to inherit the dark truth behind the origin of his kind...and discover the sinister secret at the heart of Father?s existence. For New Japan to live, Earth must die...and as Rai challenges his former master for the first time in more than a millennium, the lone guardian of New Japan will be cast out of his own Father?s kingdom... Exiled from the only realm he?s ever known, Rai now walks the ravaged world of 4001 A.D. in search of forgotten heroes like himself... on a mission to collect the last surviving legends of a broken planet...and to forge a rebellion with the power to bring the most advanced civilization in history crashing back down to Earth. New York Times best-selling writer Matt Kindt (DIVINITY II) and superstar artist Clayton Crain (X-Force) bring their startling vision of the year 4001 A.D. to new heights...with the fate of New Japan floating in the balance! Collecting?4001 A.D. #1?4.?

When five deep-time explorers find themselves stranded in the distant past of 2015, they''re forced to adapt to a primitive world of iPhone 6s''s and cars that can''t even drive themselves. But when a rift in space-time starts spitting out dinosaurs, giant robots, and other strange phenomena, only the marooned "PastAways" can defend the twenty-first century from the terrors of the timestream! Collects issues #1-#6 of the Dark Horse original series, plus a short story from Dark Horse Presents all in full-color!

Like a cross between sci-fi Jack London, The Abyss and the criss-cross espionage of KindtÈs previous material, there is no element of this new project weÈre not ecstatically awaiting.ðu0094Paste Magazine From New York Times best-selling author Matt Kindt (MIND MGMT, Past Aways, Super Spy)! With time running out, Mia launches a final, desperate attempt to rescue her brother. But the mission is endangered as soon as it begins when the crew encounters the dangers of the ocean floor: earthquakes, lava, and the creatures that lurk in the deep. Featuring content exclusive to the single issues!

Adventure runs in Poppy Pepperton''s family! At the age of ten, Poppy is the greatest explorer since her grandfather Pappy Pepperton, traveling the globe with her trusty sidekick/legal guardian Colt Winchester. When a shrunken mummy head gives a series of clues to discover an exotic fish no one''s seen in years, adventure calls, and Poppy and Colt find themselves in the strange city of Old Macadamia, swimming alongside the gigantipus, trailed by a strange robot, and end up uncovering clues to the greater mystery of what happened to Pappy all those years ago! From New York Times bestselling creators Matt Kindt (MIND MGMT) and Brian Hurtt (The Sixth Gun) comes the first story in a new generation of adventure!

The loss of every friend, every lover, every memory, it''s all led to this--the ultimate showdown! Meru gathers her allies against the Eraser''s new MIND MGMT regime, but the final fight can''t be won with blades, bullets, or bombs--this is a battle of minds! Collects the final issius of MIND MGMT #31-#36!

Every master spy?has to start somewhere. Then: Meet inexperienced MI-6 recruit Colin King on his first mission in the field as he learns the basics of spycraft and counterintelligence, and develops a volatile relationship with his first handler. Now: Colin King is Ninjak, the world?s foremost intelligence operative, weapons expert, and master assassin. And he?s hunting the Shadow Seven ? a secret cabal of shinobi masters with mysterious ties to his training and tragic past. Start reading here as Ninjak?s past and future collide in the pages of an all-new ongoing series from New York Times best-selling writer Matt Kindt (THE VALIANT, DIVINITY) and superstar artists Clay Mann (X-Men: Legacy, Gambit), Butch Guice (Captain America, Action Comics), and Juan Jos? Ryp (Black Summer)! Collecting NINJAK #1?5.

SISTERS AGAINST THE WORLD! “Kindt’s work is more complex, ambitious and somber than its subtitle suggests.”— Publishers Weekly From the imagination of Matt Kindt, 2 Sisters is at once a fanciful World War II thriller full of codes, gadgets, and cyanide capsules and the heartbreaking story of Elle and Anna, whose shared past and secrets are dredged up when Elle is recruited into His Majesty’s service as a covert agent! *From the creator of MIND MGMT, 3 Story, and Past Aways! *Over 300 pages of spy action—in color for the first time!

So let it be written, so let it be done? In the ruins of his mansion, Colin King hunkers down as the last living member of Unity after the Third Armor Hunt ? or so he thinks. A visit from an old friend and a peace offering present the chance for Ninjak to break the cycle of death and escape the horrible fate foretold in the Book of the Geomancer. Will he betray his dead friends or will THE FALL OF NINJAK come to pass and give rise to a very familiar future? The superstar team that brought you DIVINITY ? New York Times best-selling writer Matt Kindt and blockbuster artist Trevor Hairsine ? reunite to reveal an essential new chapter of BOOK OF DEATH, ripped from the future of the Valiant Universe!

The mission to stop Mind Management''s reformation has fallen apart, with Lyme, Dusty, Bill, and Perrier all dead or missing. After nearly losing her mind at the hands of the Eraser, Meru finds herself alone in a world of rogue mind managers. To press on, she''ll need to seek out the Management''s oldest living agent . . . the First Immortal, rumored to still be alive in the South American jungle. And as the true history of the Eraser is revealed at last, sides are chosen and the final line is drawn! Collects MIND MGMT #25-#30!