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ALL-NEW ARC! DEATH OF A RENEGADE ? PART 1 (of 3)! Peter Stanchek and his wayward team of teenage Renegades thought they had found freedom. They thought they could get their old lives back. They thought they could bring down Toyo Harada and the Harbinger Foundation. They were wrong. And now one of them will die.

What has become of the Bleeding Monk? The Bleeding Monk, formerly Toyo Harada?s right hand, has been missing for over a year. Now, the original creative team of Joshua Dysart and Khari Evans are journeying into the darkest corners of the Harbinger Foundation to reveal the true whereabouts of Harada?s cryptic advisor ? and uncover the first of many secret revelations to come?

From Bestselling author Deepak Chopra 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.

Re-presenting Valiant?s sold-out crossover event in complete chronological order! From New York Times best-selling creators Robert Venditti (X-O Manowar,?The Flash), Matt Kindt (Rai,?Mind MGMT), Joshua Dysart (Harbinger,?Unknown Soldier), Doug Braithwaite (Unity,?Justice), and more top talents, the acclaimed Armor Hunters saga gets the deluxe oversized hardcover treatment with more than 20+ pages of never-before-seen bonus materials! When Aric of Dacia returned to Earth with the stolen X-O Manowar armor of an alien race, he thought he?d finally found a weapon to guard the peace and kingdom he?d struggled so long to secure. But now, a relentless and surgical strike team from the farthest reaches of space ? sworn to exterminate the armor and all like it ? have found their final target. The Armor Hunters are coming. They will hunt. They will trap. They will kill. And they will rid the universe of the X-O Manowar armor?s incalculable destructive power...even if it means taking the Earth with it. Collecting ARMOR HUNTERS #1?4, ARMOR HUNTERS: AFTERMATH #1, ARMOR HUNTERS: BLOODSHOT #1?3, ARMOR HUNTERS: HARBINGER #1?3, UNITY #8?11 and X-O MANOWAR #23?29, with more than 20+ pages of bonus content and rarely seen special features.

"Contains materials originally published in single magazine form as Harbinger: Omegas #1-3 and Harbinger: bleeding monk, #0"--Indicia.

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!

Dead. Means. Dead.

?Resistance? ratchets up the stakes! Peter and the Renegades wanted information to be free, but now they?re about to pay a very steep price. Once again, the Renegades are on the run with the combined forces of the Harbinger Foundation and Project Rising Spirit closing in on all sides. This time, however, the team?s newest member, Ax, has left a trail of leaked classified information that could could win the day ? but also put the few loved ones they have into dire peril. And now the moment has come when they must choose between their fate and their families?

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.

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!

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?

Concluding the 2-part story ÒMeasure of Faith,Ó featuring guest art by Timothy Green II (FRACTION) and a chilling cover by John Totleben. Swamp Thing discovers the terrible secret of the Riverside preacher, and it could cost everything for JakeÕs father.

A stand-alone story featuring guest art by Ronald Wimberly (LUCIFER, HELLBLAZER SPECIAL: PAPA MIDNITE). Led by a bizarre mentor, Alec begins to understand what happened when he shed his godlike elemental powers. This knowledge could turn the Swamp Thing''s remarkable life in a strange new direction.

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?

The complete series that serves as a prelude to THE LIFE AND DEATH OF TOYO HARADA is collected in this deluxe edition hardcover! A psychic dictator, an inhuman robot, a mad scientist, a murderous alien, and a superpowered terrorist are about to try and take over the world?and you?re going to be rooting for them every step of the way. Collects IMPERIUM #1-16, along with more than 20 pages of rarely seen art and extras!

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?!

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.

Is Toyo Harada really dead? The long-lost secret of Harada?s estranged son revealed! Harada?s final allies stand strong as they protect their master?s vision!

Hot off THE LOSERS, fan-favorite Jock illustrates a special standalone story. Over the years, Swamp Thing has been accountable for many casualties in the swamp. But when he''s found responsible for one particular death, Swamp Thing himself might find his own actions unforgivable.

BLOODSHOT VS. H.A.R.D. CORPS ? ROUND II! The six men and women of H.A.R.D. Corps are all that stand between Bloodshot and everything he?s ever wanted ? the total destruction of Project Rising Spirit. The clock is ticking down to zero, the stakes are life-or-death?and no one in this fight has anything left to lose.

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?.

Part 1 of the astonishing 2-part story ÒMeasure of Faith,Ó featuring guest art by Timothy Green II (FRACTION) and a gripping cover by legendary SWAMP THING illustrator John Totleben. With Swamp Thing struggling to make sense of his shattered life and Houma recovering from all the horrors of its past spilling up from the depths of Hell, a strange ÒpreacherÓ appears, offering a macabre salvation to the townÕs people. But his true agenda may be too frightening to contemplate.

"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.

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?

?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?

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!

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!

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.

MISSION: IMPROBABLE ? FINALE! Bloodshot! Archer! H.A.R.D. Corps! Armstrong! It all comes down to this!! ?Mission: Improbable? rockets into its explosive climax as four world-shattering forces collide! Will Bloodshot re-capture Archer for Project Rising Spirit?or is a double-cross in the works?! Will H.A.R.D. Corps figure out how you kill an immortal like Armstrong?or are they going home in body bags? Only one thing?s for certain?it doesn?t matter who loses ? you win!

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?

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.

Under siege?and out of control! The Armor Hunters have decimated a major metropolis, and the battle to save the survivors still rages. In the midst of the devastation, the volatile team of Harbinger Foundation escapees called Generation Zero are about to stumble headlong into an insidious alien counteroffensive ? one with the potential to bring down not just a city, but the entire world. When push comes to shove, can this group of immensely powerful, immensely temperamental teenagers be trusted to repel the Armor Hunters? second wave? Absolutely not?but they?re the only chance we?ve got!

The horrifying four-part "Bleeding Raconteur" story arc comes to its dramatic conclusion! With Swamp Thing in her grotesque clutches, Hagar hopes to finally destroy the protector of the Bayou once and for all. But the Stories have their own vendetta against both creatures, and see an opportunity to make their final move.

Harbinger team-up! Mexico City just became ground zero for the Armor Hunters? invasion of Earth, and the runaway army of super-powered soldiers called Generation Zero needs to bring in back-up. Better call?the Renegades?! But when powerhouse brawler Torque and lighter-than-air free spirit Zephyr join the ?ght, things are about to go from bleak to brutal as the Earth?s ?rst extraterrestrial invasion force unleashes an engine of global destruction with one sole purpose ? to terminate?with extreme prejudice.

Kicking off a new storyline, ÒThe Bleeding Raconteur,Ó plus the debut of a new cover artist, Eisner-Award winner Eric Powell (The Goon, ARKHAM ASYLUM: LIVING HELL). In the fallout of the ÒHealing the BreachÓ story arc, we return to the Louisiana Bayou to meet William, an irrepressible Cajun storyteller who unwittingly unleashes the nightmarish characters featured in his tales. Once again, itÕs up to the Swamp Thing to chase them back into folklore, but when he recognizes a familiar face among the myths, he may be reluctant to do so.

?GET SOME? ? Part Two! Bloodshot and H.A.R.D. Corps fight for more than they bargained for! When a routine rescue mission goes horribly wrong, Director Kozol is taken captive by a group of grizzled psiot mercenaries with a vital key to Bloodshot?s past. The team fight to save Kozol?s life?and they don?t even like him! Duck and cover ? because you?ve just dropped into in the middle of the Arabian Desert for a super-powered gunfight at an exploding oil pipeline!

The deadly campaign of the most powerful psiot in the Valiant Universe continues! In the present: Toyo Harada finds himself and The Foundation Zone under attack by a coalition of world governments, as one of his own teammates begins to turn on him. In the past: Toyo Harada escapes Japan aboard a fishing vessel, and sets sail for the new world.

Wait, did we kill Toyo Harada in the middle of his own series? It is called THE LIFE AND DEATH OF TOYO HARADA, after all? A young Toyo spends some quality time with one of the most brilliant men in history: Albert Einstein. Yes, really. Things get veeeeery violent with Toyo?s savage alien friend, LV-99?

Swamp Thing has vowed to protect the fragile community that has grown around him. But with the Floronic Man unleashed in the swamp, monsters terrorizing the city and his own wife and daughter in danger, will it all come crashing down around him?