Media release — Valiant is happy to reveal book OF death – the epic new Valiant event of 2015! beginning with in July with book OF death #1 (of 4) from new York Times very popular writer Robert Venditti (X-O MANOWAR, eco-friendly Lantern), superstar-in-the-making Robert Gill (ARMOR HUNTERS: HARBINGER, Batgirl) as well as visionary artist Doug Braithwaite (ARMOR HUNTERS, Justice), book OF death continues throughout the summertime with four standalone one-shots from an all-star cast of Valiant’s top talents! Colliding the next two thousand years of history against the most powerful heroes of today, the summer’s must-read comics event starts right here in July as a new Geomancer emerges to develop a bridge to the future of the Valiant Universe!
The Valiant heroes. X-O Manowar. Bloodshot. Ninjak. The Harbinger Renegades. Unity. This is exactly how they lived. This is exactly how they died.
Now we know. The book of the Geomancer has recorded it all. however only a young woman – the last in a line of the enigmatic mystics who safeguard the earth understood as Geomancers – has seen this future come to pass, from the coming cataclysm to the dawn of the 41st century. Alone with her sworn protector, the Eternal Warrior – a soldier battle-forged across five thousand years of combat – the duo should defy their allies to stop the Dark Age that now threatens to eclipse our world.
Together, they are the primary target of every hero as well as villain on Earth. Either the Eternal Warrior hands her over…or they take him down. however can even he single-handedly safeguard one kid when the entire Valiant world wages war against him?
“In the custom of Valiant’s original RAI #0, book OF death is going to expose peeks of the future of the Valiant world and, with it, numerous of the monumental events as well as occurrences that our heroes will face,” stated Valiant CEO & chief innovative policeman Dinesh Shamdasani. “Major characters will die, while others will be introduced for the extremely very first time. The loves, the losses, as well as the betrayals that await our most significant characters…it all starts here. For the Geomancer, this future has already occurred and, in each issue, we will see much more of the events that shaped her life revealed. book OF death will have an instant effect on not only the stories that comply with it in 2015, however on the next decade of the Valiant world as well.”
Also coming in July, the future of the Valiant world continues with four visionary tales of present as well as future broken directly from the pages of the book of the Geomancer! Each month, join an all-star cast of creators – Jeff Lemire (THE VALIANT, BLOODSHOT REBORN) & Doug Braithwaite (UNITY, IMPERIUM), Matt Kindt (NINJAK, RAI) & Trevor Hairsine (DIVINITY), Joshua Dysart (HARBINGER, IMPERIUM) & Kano (THE DELINQUENTS), as well as Robert Venditti (X-O MANOWAR, ARMOR HUNTERS) & Clayton Henry (HARBINGER WARS, IVAR, TIMEWALKER) – as they come aboard the summer’s monumental comics event to chronicle the supreme fate of Valiant’s most significant heroes! From the contemporary day to the far future, the destinies of Bloodshot, Ninjak, the Harbinger Renegades, X-O Manowar, as well as much more will stand exposed in four essential, standalone chapters at the epicenter of book OF DEATH:
BOOK OF DEATH: THE autumn OF BLOODSHOT #1
Written by Jeff Lemire; Art by Doug Braithwaite
ON SALE IN JULY
BOOK OF DEATH: THE autumn OF NINJAK #1
Written by Matt Kindt; Art by Trevor Hairsine
ON SALE IN AUGUST
BOOK OF DEATH: THE autumn OF HARBINGER #1
Written by Joshua Dysart; Art by Kano
ON SALE IN SEPTEMBER
BOOK OF DEATH: THE autumn OF X-O MANOWAR #1
Written by Robert Venditti; Art by Clayton Henry
ON SALE IN OCTOBER
“In just a short time, I believe Valiant has built a credibility for producing a few of the most well-received comic book events in the market today. HARBINGER WARS… UNITY… ARMOR HUNTERS… THE VALIANT… These are all stories have been significant hits with fans, sellers as well as critics alike, however book OF death may just be the biggest, many game-changing event we’ve attempted to date,” stated Valiant Editor-in-Chief Warren Simons. “Much of the conversation at the Valiant innovative retreats helped formalize the concepts behind book OF death as well as hammer out the colossal effect that the Eternal Warrior as well as new Geomancer will soon have on the landscape of the Valiant Universe. book OF death will be the supreme peek at the future of the Valiant world as well as it’s only fitting that we bring as numerous major Valiant creators into the mix as possible.”
“BOOK OF death is a story that’s been in the works for a long time, as well as I’m looking ahead to showing visitors what we have in store for them,” stated writer Robert Venditti. “Last summer’s ARMOR HUNTERS event was so much fun to write, and, while this story will have a much different focus as well as tonenull