UNITY #3 | HARBINGER #20 (NEW ARC) | ARCHER & ARMSTRONG #17
There’s a whole new kind of hero inside the X-O Manowar armor!
Next week, Valiant’s fearless superteam continues to cut a blockbuster path right through the center of the Valiant U in Unity #3 by Matt Kindt and Doug Braithwaite! This is Unity’s biggest, most intense issue yet…with Livewire stepping into the X-O armor, Eternal Warrior getting medieval, exploding spaceships and a whole horde of pissed-off Visigoths. Yes!
Also hitting stands, the Harbinger Wars team of Joshua Dysart and Clayton Henry are getting back together for a perfect jumping-on point in Harbinger #20 — the first issue of the new two-parter “Resistance,” introducing a major new nemesis and revealing superpowers to the world. Sounds like a big deal, right? Find out why this is the issue that made headlines nationwide in the Associated Press!
(And watch this space…there’s more major Harbinger news on the horizon!)
Last but not least, Fred Van Lente and Khari Evans finally get ready to call a ceasefire to the “Sect Civil War” in Archer & Armstrong #17! Also, Archer gets a new haircut! Seriously!
All three of these issues go on sale Wednesday, January 15th.
UNITY #3 (ON SALE 1/15/14)
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.
—HARBINGER #20 (NEW ARC – “RESISTANCE”) (ON SALE 1/15/14)
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…
(…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!
BLOODSHOT AND H.A.R.D. CORPS #18 (ON SALE 1/8/14)
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!
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.
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.
