Rocketing out of the pages of 4001 A.D...the present and future of Valiant?s greatest heroes come together in four essential standalone chapters at the heart of the blockbuster comics event of the year!? Blast two thousand years into the future as the never-before-told history of New Japan?s dominion over Earth and the future fates of X-O Manowar, Bloodshot and Shadowman stand revealed. Then, witness the battle- scarred debut of the boldest new hero of this century or the next when War Mother makes her history-shattering debut! The future starts now as all-star writers Robert Venditti, Jeff Lemire, Jody Houser, Rafer Roberts, and Fred Van Lente join visionary artists Clayton Henry, Doug Braithwaite, Robert Gill, and Tomas Giorello to bring the Valiant Universe barreling into the 41st century! Collecting?4001 A.D.: X-O MANOWAR #1, 4001 A.D.: BLOODSHOT #1, 4001 A.D.: SHADOWMAN #1,?and?4001 A.D.: WAR MOTHER #1.

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 FatherÕs 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 JapanÕs 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 FatherÕs 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 FatherÕs kingdom... Exiled from the only realm heÕs 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. #1Ð4.

Rocketing out of the pages of 4001 A.D...the origin of Rai revealed!? For the first time ever, witness the violent foundation of Father?s space-born utopia of New Japan...and, with it, the shocking genesis of the line of guardians that bear the name Rai! Born and bred by Father to enforce peace at any cost, follow the first Rai and his successors across two millennia as they chronicle the history of 4001 A.D. - from the launch of New Japan into orbit to the latest Rai?s crusade to bring it crashing back down to Earth! Valiant mastermind Matt Kindt (4001 A.D.) and visionary artist CAFU (UNITY) uncover the never-before-told story of New Japan?s rise to power...and reveal just how the Valiant Universe of today became the 4001 A.D. of tomorrow! Collecting?RAI #13-16.

A legend-fueled odyssey into eons past! For years, Jack Boniface believed that he knew the true story of the Shadowman loa ? the true story of the curse inside him. He was wrong. For the first time, Jack Boniface is about to discover the long-hidden history of the supernatural power that became his birthright? Unmoored in time and space, the loa is about to reveal its untold dimensions?and now, the last defender of the wall between our realm and the Deadside is falling backwards through the astral void, finding himself face to face with his forebears across the centuries ? from the paranoia-addled alleyways of 1940s New York to the fire-scorched plantations of the Civil War?all the way back to the primeval height of the African savannah in 40,000 B.C.!

WITH GREAT POWER COMES GREAT SIBLING RIVALRY! Sometimes?you embrace your destiny. And sometimes?you and your troublemaking adopted brother find yourselves trapped in a scientific lab explosion that grants you $@&%ing awesome superpowers. As a result of their accident, Eric and Woody Henderson ? aka Quantum and Woody ? must ?klang? their wristbands together every 24 hours or both dissipate into nothingness. Which makes superhero-ing pretty awkward when you?re not on speaking terms at the moment. See, Eric has been keeping a pretty big secret: He knows who Woody?s birth father really is?and where he?s been hiding all these years. Starting right here, Quantum and Woody make headlines and take names as deeply alarming and untrustworthy writer Daniel Kibblesmith (The Late Show with Stephen Colbert) and eye-popping artist Kano (Daredevil) give the Valiant Universe the adjective-worthy superheroes it deserves: QUANTUM AND WOODY! Collecting QUANTUM AND WOODY! (2017) #1?5.

His sacrifice will be her salvation. From New York Times best-selling writer Jeff Lemire (BLOODSHOT REBORN, Black Hammer) and extraordinary artists Lewis LaRosa (BLOODSHOT REBORN) and Mico Suayan (BLOODSHOT REBORN), a bloody and vengeful new era for Bloodshot begins here as Ray Garrison escapes his violent past to build the one thing he never thought he?d earn: a family. But when a hateful secret from his true love?s past threatens their fragile peace, Bloodshot will be forced to run headlong into a barrage of blood, bullets, and broken bones for a revenge-fueled assault that will have crushing consequences for those he holds most dear? Now: In the arms of his beloved girlfriend Magic, Bloodshot has finally found hope for the future?in the form of the couple?s unborn child. But when Magic?s estranged family ? a cruel and sadistic clan of homegrown criminals ? re-emerge to lay claim to their lost daughter, Bloodshot will be pushed back to the brink of madness, mayhem, and warfare? Soon: Eight years from today, Bloodshot?s daughter has inherited her father?s incredible abilities. Hunted by a high-tech kill squad called Omen, Jessie must hone her powers?and learn how to survive before the world is swallowed whole by the darkness that now pervades America? Collecting BLOODSHOT SALVATION #1?5.

For nearly a century, MI-6, the most elite branch of Britain?s clandestine intelligence service, has honed a ruthlessly effective, top-secret division ? THE NINJA PROGRAMME ? into one of its nation?s most finely wielded weapons. Tasked as the first and last line of defense for queen and country, this small shadow army of agents and assassins has produced a succession of notable assets, including NINJA-A, the Queen?s silent weapon of World War I; NINJA-E, the globe-trotting secret agent that pulled the Cold War back from the brink of Armageddon; and, most recently, NINJA-K, aka Colin King, a brash but fearless instrument of lethality that has saved the world from madmen and terror at every turn. But now?an unknown enemy is hunting and killing members of THE NINJA PROGRAMME one by one ? and NINJAK is next on the list. A new can't-miss ongoing series from renowned writer Christos Gage (Netflix?s Daredevil) and Valiant?s latest superstar artist, Tom?s Giorello (X-O MANOWAR), starts here with stunningly precise jumping-on point revealing the classified history of the black-budget spy network that trained Colin King and his predecessors?and leading Ninjak on a manhunt through a cold, calculating world of espionage and international intrigue in search of a killer targeting all ninja agents ? past and present! Collecting NINJA-K #1?5.