New Releases by Joshua Dysart

From Bestselling author Deepak Chopra Read the First Issue for FREE! Deepak Chopra brings the Buddha back 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. Ultimately recognizing his inability to conquer his body and mind by sheer will, Siddhartha transcends his physical pain and achieves enlightenment. 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 the spiritual one, Buddha captivates and inspires - ultimately leading us closer to understanding the true nature of life and our selves.

Every mission?is someone?s last. 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. Collecting BLOODSHOT AND H.A.R.D. CORPS #14-17 and BLOODSHOT #0, join acclaimed writers Christos Gage (Avengers Academy) and Joshua Dysart (Harbinger Wars) and superstar-in-the-making Emanuela Lupacchino (Archer & Armstrong) right here to light the fuse on an explosive new chapter for Bloodshot and the Valiant Universe?s most feared team of superhuman operatives! Also featuring the shocking origin of Bloodshot as told by Matt KIndt (Mind MGMT) and ChrisCross (Superman/Batman)!

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!

How does a rookie member of H.A.R.D. Corps take on Toyo Harada? With his life insurance paid up. Bloodshot?s H.A.R.D. Corps team and the uber-powerful Toyo Harada go head-to-head with the future of the Harbinger Foundation at stake. Can this group of physically, mentally and emotionally damaged living weapons survive a battle with the most powerful man in the world? And if they do survive, just how does one walk out of a war zone unscathed?

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.

An oversized, deluxe hardcover collecting the landmark first year of Harbinger in the Valiant Universe! Outside the law. Inside your head. You?ve never met a team of super-powered teenagers quite like the Renegades. Skipping across the country in a desperate attempt to stay one step ahead of the authorities, psionically-powered teenager Peter Stanchek only has one option left ? run. But he won?t have to go it alone. As the shadowy corporation known as the Harbinger Foundation draws close on all sides, Peter will have to find and recruit other unique individuals like himself? other troubled, immensely powerful youths with abilities beyond their control. Their mission? Bring the fight back to the Harbinger Foundation?s founder Toyo Harada ? and dismantle his global empire brick by brick? Collecting the sold-out HARBINGER #0-14, the Harbinger Deluxe Edition Vol. 1 HC also comes jam-packed with more than 20 pages of never-before-seen art and extras, direct from the Valiant vaults.

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.

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!

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! ?From the art to the writing, Harbinger Wars is a smooth package?? ? The Onion/A.V. Club ?Five stars? A big event done right. It?s hugely entertaining?? ? Comic Vine ?Harbinger Wars is an absolute blast?? ? Multiversity Comics

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!

Outside the law. Inside your head. Welcome to the Renegades. Battered and broken after his escape from the Harbinger Foundation, telekinetic teenager Peter Stanchek only has one option left – run. But he won’t have to go it alone. Crisscrossing America with the only two people he can trust, Peter will have to activate a new team of super-powered recruits before Toyo Harada and his Harbinger shock troops can reach them first. Peter Stanchek. Zephyr. Kris. Flamingo. You’ve never met a team of super-powered teenagers quite like the Renegades. And, together, they’ll dismantle Harada’s global empire one brick at a time. Collecting HARBINGER #6-10 by New York Times best-selling author Joshua Dysart and an all-star cast of comics’ top artistic talents, get ready for the second stunning volume of the series Ain’t It Cool News calls “simply astonishing.”

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!

The Renegades recruit their newest member ? Torque! In a shed in the backwoods of Northern Georgia lives a meek, sequestered teen named John Torkelson. Raised just this side of feral, and on a steady diet of MMA and reality TV, fried catfish and Cheeto pie, he?s a firm believer that women should be seen and not heard (though he really hasn?t met many). But when four strange, super-powered outlaw teenagers suddenly appear in the woods outside his shed, Torkelson?s life takes a turn he could?ve never imagined. Now the boy his poppa called ?Stump? is about to become more man than he could?ve ever imagined. But then?what exactly is a ?real man?? For that matter, what?s a real hero? Only one thing?s certain, the Renegades are about to get a hell of a lot stronger.

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!

ALL-NEW ARC! From out of the ashes ? ?RENEGADES! After a crushing defeat at the hands of his would-be mentor, Peter Stanchek lies critically wounded and the only person who can save him is the person that hates him the most ? his childhood love Kris Hathaway. As Harada?s Eggbreaker strike force closes in, the helpless Peter wonders if he is going to find forgiveness at Kris?s door ? or unbridled vengeance. But when Faith returns as the superhero she?s always dreamed of being, the game is going to change for everyone involved?

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.

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?

Welcome to the Harbinger Foundation. Class is now in session. Throughout his whole life, Peter Stanchek has been confused by his strange powers and their effect on those closest to him. Now, having abandoned everything he knows, Peter has escaped to the confines of Toyo Harada?s Harbinger Foundation where his new training will temper his body, torture his mind and reawaken the horrors of his past. But is all of this truly giving Peter more control over his power? Or simply making him far more dangerous than he?s ever been before?