New Releases by Joshua Dysart

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!

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!

Before the Harbinger Foundation, before Project Rising Spirit, Toyo Harada spent decades circling the globe, recruiting empowered individuals to his cause through coercion, intimidation and influence. But how is one deal brokered in secret between Harada and Rising Sprit Securities forty years ago now wreaking havoc in the modern day? And when the past comes roaring back, how will Peter Stanchek and the rest of Harada’s most wanted react to the revelation of Rising Spirit’s secret mission and the Harbinger hunter known as Bloodshot? Collecting HARBINGER #11-14 and HARBINGER #0, join New York Times best-selling writer Joshua Dysart (Unknown Soldier) and acclaimed artists Khari Evans (Carbon Grey), Trevor Hairsine (X-Men: Deadly Genesis), Mico Suayan (The Punisher), and Pere Perez (Smallville Season 11) for a complete standalone tale of the dark foundations behind Valiant’s first crossover event.

ALL-NEW ARC! ALL-NEW CREATIVE TEAM! Acclaimed writer Christos Gage (Avengers Academy, Thunderbolts) joins New York Times best-seller Joshua Dysart (Harbinger Wars) and superstar-in-the-making Emanuela Lupacchino (Archer & Armstrong, X-Factor) to light the fuse on an explosive new chapter for Bloodshot and the Valiant Universe?s most feared team of superhuman operatives! The world?s most deadly soldier has a new assignment. Out of the ashes of Harbinger Wars, Bloodshot is about to join the weaponized men and women of the HARBINGER ACTIVE RESISTANCE DIVISION ? the black budget, technologically-augmented strike force where the powers are dangerously unstable and every mission is a one-way ticket into the meat grinder. With a reluctant leader calling the shots and a new crop of untested rookies manning the frontline, Bloodshot is about to take H.A.R.D. Corps behind enemy lines ? and into a gasoline-drenched, synapse-snapping suicide run where no one is safe?and heroes always die trying.

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.

HARBINGER WARS AFTERMATH! ALL-NEW ARC, ALL-NEW JUMPING-ON POINT! In the wake of Harbinger Wars, start reading here as Joshua Dysart and new series artist Barry Kitson (Amazing Spider-Man, FF) begin the next year of Harbinger with a mind-bending trip to the outer limits of the Valiant Universe! It?s been a brutal few months for Peter Stanchek and the Renegades, culminating in the harrowing events ? and losses ? of the Harbinger Wars. But now the members of the team have woken up to the Best. Day. Ever. As Lou Reed sang, it?s just a perfect day, problems left all alone. But for Peter Stanchek ? a kid who deserves a good day ? something seems off?like all is not what it seems?

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?!

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?

Introducing?H.A.R.D. Corps! Las Vegas is burning, and the situation on the ground is about to go from bad to worse. With the firefight between the Harbinger Foundation, Bloodshot and the Renegades spiraling out of control, Project Rising Spirit has only one desperate option left to prevent the conflagration from spreading. It?s time to bring the deep-black weapons development project ? designation H.A.R.D. Corps ? back online. But are they a scalpel or a sledgehammer? And can they be trusted with the enormous power they wield? What happens in Vegas may just destroy the rest of the Valiant Universe!

HARBINGER WARS: HARBINGER continues here! Battle weary, the Renegades follow Peter Stanchek?s strange dreams and visions into the Southwest American desert, unsure of what exactly they?ll find. Under the duress of constant conflict, and led by the words of the Bleeding Monk ? who bleeds but does not die ? our band of teens begins to fray, barely even a cohesive group by the time they reach Las Vegas, Nevada ? now rechristened ?Psiot Nation.? Here Peter and his crew come face to face with the Harbingers who have escaped from Project Rising Spirit?s prison?Harbingers who call themselves GENERATION ZERO.

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.

?Your system has failed us. Now we must build our own.? All-new arc, all-new jumping-on point! HARBINGER WARS continues in a standalone, four-part arc of HARBINGER, featuring the return of original series artist Khari Evans (Carbon Grey)! ? The world has just become a much bigger, much more dangerous place for Peter Stanchek and the Renegades... ? How will they react to the revelation of Project Rising Spirit?s secret mission and the harbinger hunter known as Bloodshot?

?Do you know where the children are?? HARBINGER WARS, Valiant?s first family crossover event, begins here! A decades-old secret is about to put BLOODSHOT and HARBINGER on an inescapable collision course ? and, soon, the most powerful forces in the Valiant Universe will be drawn into a battle without sides, without rules, and without mercy. ?Two dozen undisciplined, untested and untrained superhuman children have just escaped from a top-secret research facility and into the world. ?When Bloodshot, Toyo Harada and Peter Stanchek join the chase, will the Valiant Universe be ready for its first all-out superhuman showdown? ?Start reading here for a high-stakes tale that will put Valiant?s greatest heroes to the ultimate test!

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.

Nothing can bring her down. She?s the light in the dark. The soul of a rising resistance movement. Here now, for the first time, is the story of Zephyr (aka Faith Herbert? but shhh don?t tell anyone)! As danger closes in on all sides, Faith must begin the trials and tribulations of being the Valiant Universe?s first real-life superhero. Learn the secret potential of her powers and the truth about her time at the Harbinger Foundation, then follow her into battle to save the other Renegades. Look, up in the air! It?s a bird, it?s a plane? it?s freakin? Zephyr!

Harbinger Wars, Valiant''s first crossover event, begins here! Two dozen undisciplined, untested and untrained superhuman children have just escaped from a top-secret research facility and into the world. When Bloodshot, Toyo Harada and Peter Stanchek join the chase, will the Valiant Universe be ready for its first all-out superhuman showdown? Collecting HARBINGER WARS #1-4 by acclaimed writers Joshua Dysart (Harbinger) & Duane Swierczynski (Bloodshot) and artist Clayton Henry (Archer & Armstrong), start reading here for a high-stakes tale that will put Valiant''s greatest heroes to the ultimate test!

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?.

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!

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?

In the wake of the Second World War, Professor Trevor Bruttenholmoccult investigator and guardian of the infant Hellboyfounded the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense to investigate and defuse the remains of the Axis''s sophisticated occult-warfare projects and potential Soviet threats. Now, outfitted with a small band of war-weary Allied soldiers, Bruttenholm begins to unravel the mystery of the Nazi Occult Bureau''s greatest and most threatening initiative: Project Vampir Sturm. **Adventure, horror, and mystery in the finest _Hellboy_ tradition.**

As the rest of the team hunts for their missing man, a lone agent follows his mysterious benefactor further into the dark recesses of her world. Joshua Dysart (_B.P.R.D.: 1946_) and _Hellboy_ creator Mike Mignola team up with sequential heartthrobs Gabriel B�� (_The Umbrella Academy_) and F��bio Moon (_Sugarshock_) for a new chapter in the hidden history of the B.P.R.D.! A direct sequel to the critically acclaimed _B.P.R.D.: 1946_! Art by Eisner Award-winning rising stars F��bio Moon and Gabriel B��!

The newest B.P.R.D. members are thrust into the jaws of a group of unsavory vampires as they search for a missing comrade in the bowels of a dilapidated old chateau. Joshua Dysart (_B.P.R.D.: 1946_, _Unknown Soldier_) and _Hellboy_ creator Mike Mignola join forces with Eisner Award-winning artists Gabriel B�� (_The Umbrella Academy_) and F��bio Moon (_Sugarshock_) for the latest chapter in the hidden history of the B.P.R.D.! Art by Eisner Award-winning rising stars F��bio Moon and Gabriel B��!

The Bureau''s search for a vengeful vampire reaches its climax! In a strange Austrian village a terrifying party took place hundreds of years ago, and the last of the partygoers remain. Meanwhile, back in America, the young Hellboy dreams of adventure_ Joshua Dysart (_B.P.R.D.: 1946_, _Unknown Soldier_) and Hellboy creator Mike Mignola join forces with Eisner Award-winning artists Gabriel B�� (_The Umbrella Academy_) and F��bio Moon (_Sugarshock_) for a wild romp through the year 1947, when Hellboy was just a boy under the tutelage of Professor Broom, and vampires secretly controlled the fate of Europe. **Art by Eisner Award-winning rising stars F��bio Moon and Gabriel B��!**

With lots of casualties on both sides, the battle with the vampires is over. Now Broom has to enlist an old friend in a bizarre exorcism to save the soul of one of the soldiers. But the exorcist himself isn''t happy about the little demon Broom has adopted and has a lesson to teach Broom about battling the forces of darkness.

In 1946, the Nazi Occult Bureau''s Project Vampir Sturm threatened to destroy the fragile peace following the end of the Second World War. A year later, the B.P.R.D. learns that there are creatures far olderand far more dangerousthan the Nazis'' creations, as a lone vampire nobleman ruthlessly hunts the survivors of the Third Reich. Joshua Dysart (_B.P.R.D.: 1946_) and _Hellboy_ creator Mike Mignola team up with Gabriel B�� (_The Umbrella Academy_) and F��bio Moon (_Sugarshock_) for a new chapter in the hidden history of the B.P.R.D.! A direct sequel to the critically acclaimed _B.P.R.D.: 1946_! Art by Eisner Award winners F��bio Moon and Gabriel B��! **A chilling old-world vampire tale!**

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?

A graphic novel adaptation of the life of the Buddha, written for western readers, traces his spiritual journey while explaining how his experiences and teachings have changed the world and continue to influence every facet of life.

Jason Blood cuts a deal with a cult of modern-day alchemists to divorce him from The Demon for good€but the ceremony goes horribly wrong, leading to the Demon crossing paths with a troubled street racer.

"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.