Harbinger Wars 2 Prelude 1

Before HARBINGER WARS 2 begins, JUMP ON BOARD HERE with A STANDALONE INTRODUCTION TO THE VALIANT UNIVERSE?s most powerful forces from the master storytellers behind SECRET WEAPONS: Academy Award-nominated writer Eric Heisserer (Arrival) and Harvey Award-nominated artists Ra?l All?n (SECRET WEAPONS) and Patricia Mart?n (BLOODSHOT REBORN)! The Harbinger Renegades have been scattered across America? battered by the brutal MASSACRE that decimated their ranks. Now, Livewire ? leader of the Harbinger Foundation?s most unusual group of SECRET WEAPONS ? is about to incite the coast-to-coast clash that brings them all together in an inescapable collision of power. Pushed to the brink by the government she once served, Toyo Harada?s former star pupil is about to make an irreversible decision? and deactivate America?s power supply in a last-ditch bid to save the extraordinary individuals called ?psiots? from extinction. As a nation goes dark, the paths of our world's most powerful heroes will soon converge?and the stage will be set for the most cataclysmic confrontation in the history of the Valiant Universe! Witness the ground-zero moment for the future of the Valiant Universe with a startling, self-contained prelude to HARBINGER WARS 2 ? and the perfect introduction to all of Valiant?s biggest icons from one of the most acclaimed creative teams in comics today!

The most powerful Valiant event attempted strikes full force with an oversized deluxe edition hardcover of the complete blockbuster saga! The paths of the world's most formidable heroes ? X-O Manowar, Livewire, Bloodshot, Ninjak, the Secret Weapons, H.A.R.D. Corps, and more ? collide right here in a coast-to-coast clash of comics icons that will leave no hero unscathed. Academy Award nominated writer Eric Heisserer (SECRET WEAPONS) and New York Times bestselling writer Matt Kindt (DIVINITY) come together with superstar artists Ra?l All?n and Patricia Mart?n (WRATH OF THE ETERNAL WARRIOR), Tom?s Giorello (X-O MANOWAR), and more, for a prestige-sized volume bringing together the entire HARBINGER WARS 2 event for the very first time. Collecting SECRET WEAPONS #1?4, SECRET WEAPONS #0, SECRET WEAPONS: OWEN'S STORY #0, HARBINGER WARS 2: PRELUDE #1, HARBINGER WARS 2 #1?4, HARBINGER WARS 2: AFTERMATH #1, along with the never before collected HARBINGER WARS 2 #0 and more than 20 pages of rarely seen art and extras.

THE SEISMIC COMICS EVENT OF 2018 STARTS HERE! From New York Times best-selling writer Matt Kindt (X-O MANOWAR. DIVINITY, Mind MGMT) and superstar artist Tom?s Giorello (X-O MANOWAR), the most powerful Valiant event ever attempted erupts in full force as X-O Manowar, Livewire, the Harbinger Renegades, Bloodshot, the Secret Weapons, Ninjak, and a cast of thousands draw their battle lines in HARBINGER WARS 2! For the rare and immensely powerful subset of humanity known as psiots, their unique abilities have come with an enormous cost. Once, their existence was known only to a select few. Now, the revelation that thousands of these latent telekinetic ?harbingers? secretly live among us?with the potential to be activated at any moment?has led the American government to a dramatic tipping point? Armed with new extra-governmental authority, the deep-black military contractor known as Omen has been authorized to identify, evaluate, and, if need be, eliminate all super-normal threats to the homeland. H.A.R.D. Corps units have been deployed into cities and towns across the United States to enforce their orders. In the East, one of the most powerful minds on Earth, Peter Stanchek, is leading his band of Renegades across the country, activating any potential psiots willing to join them, and building an insurrection force of ultra-powerful and unwieldy new abilities that will soon bring war to Omen?s doorstep?and the unstoppable force known as X-O Manowar raging back to Earth? In the West, Livewire ? the telekinetic technopath with the ability to bend machines and computers to her will ? will be forced to choose between her former allies?or her newfound team of Secret Weapons. As the situation escalates beyond human control, the United States will be plunged into darkness from coast to coast, launching Bloodshot and Ninjak into a dangerous mission to neutralize their one-time teammate ? and setting the stage for the most shocking, most violent, and most consequential clash of powers ever witnessed in the history of the Valiant Universe!

A seismic, universe-spanning event! Nothing will ever be the same? For the rare and immensely powerful subset of humanity known as psiots, their unique abilities have come with an enormous cost. Once, their existence was known only to a select few. Now, the revelation that thousands of these latent telekinetic ?harbingers? secretly live among us ? with the potential to be activated at any moment ? has led the American government to a dramatic tipping point? Armed with new extra-governmental authority, the deep-black ops military contractor known as Omen has been authorized to identify, evaluate, and, if need be, eliminate all super-normal threats to the homeland. H.A.R.D. Corps units have been deployed into cities and towns across the United States to enforce their orders. As the situation escalates beyond human control, the United States will be plunged into darkness from coast to coast, launching Bloodshot and Ninjak into a dangerous mission to neutralize their one-time teammate, Livewire ? and setting the stage for the most shocking, most violent, and most consequential clash of powers ever witnessed in the history of the Valiant Universe! Collecting HARBINGER WARS 2: PRELUDE #1, HARBINGER WARS 2 #1-4, and HARBINGER WARS 2: AFTERMATH #1.

All hands on deck! Divided but not yet conquered, Livewire and the Harbinger Renegades are making their last stand for the fate of their fellow psiots! Targeted by X-O Manowar and the governmental forces of the H.A.R.D. Corps, the most powerful players behind the cataclysmic conflict that has torn America asunder are about to converge in a violent conflict where the ultimate fate of the Valiant Universe will be decided... And Ninjak and Bloodshot are about to get a crucial new role in the heart of it all! From coast to coast, New York Times best-selling writer Matt Kindt (X-O MANOWAR, DIVINITY) and superstar artist Tom?s Giorello (X-O MANOWAR, NINJA-K) are about to unleash a sonic boom of seismic consequences as Valiant's spectacular summer event rages forward!

And so...the unstoppable X-O Manowar enters the fray! From East to West, the nation has been cleaved down the middle as Livewire's defensive attack on the U.S. power grid envelops America in darkness and sets the stage for the biggest clash of powers ever witnessed... On one side, Peter Stanchek?s ragtag team of Renegades ? alongside their newly activated army of untrained and wildly unstable psiots ? ready themselves for an unsparing firefight with H.A.R.D. Corps and the agents of Omen. On the other, Ninjak and Bloodshot prepare to enter Livewire's domain inside blacked-out Los Angeles. But as the casualties pile up and the losses mount on both sides, none of them will be ready to confront the full fury of raw power personified as X-O Manowar makes his long-awaited return after a year of self imposed exile among the stars...and delivers a single concussive strike that will send shockwaves across the whole of the Valiant Universe! The most powerful Valiant event attempted continues in full force with another seismic chapter as New York Times best-selling author Matt Kindt (X-O MANOWAR, Mind MGMT) and superstar artist Tom?s Giorello (X-O MANOWAR) unleash X-O Manowar on a world he thought he'd left behind...and fire off the next brutal volley in the coast-to-coast clash of comics icons that will leave no hero unscathed!

This means war! The alien-armored warrior called X-O Manowar once commanded the most formidable army the alien world of Gorin had ever known. Now, his comrades have been forsaken, his crown has been commandeered, and his power has been rejected by the very subjects he once ruled. But he still has his sword?and a never-ending furnace of fury drawn from deep within? The end of X-O Manowar?s year-long conquest at the farthest reaches of the Valiant Universe draws near ? and a powerful new beginning awaits ? as New York Times best-selling writer Matt Kindt (ETERNITY) and astonishing artist Ryan Bodenheim (The Dying & The Dead) unleash the final reckoning of ?VISIGOTH?!

There are bad dads. And then there?s Rutherford Van Chelton? They went looking for Woody's birth father...and they're about to wish they didn't! Woody?s pop has left a long trail of broken promises and broken bottles behind him across the decades. Now, Quantum and Woody ? the world?s worst superhero team, currently estranged ? are thousands of miles from home, riding shotgun across Australia with the human dive bar that forever changed the course of both their lives. Will the senior Van Chelton convert his long-lost son to his hard-traveling ways? And can Quantum take on an older, smarter, and slightly more inebriated version of his unpredictable partner? Valiant?s high-energy superheroes are hitting the road for a once-in-a-lifetime family reunion as rising star Daniel Kibblesmith (The Late Show with Stephen Colbert) and eye-popping artist Kano (Daredevil) bring ?KISS KISS, KLANG KLANG? south of the equator!