ALL OUT WAR! Five alien Armor Hunters now control the planet, millions are dead - and that was only the beginning! But if X-O Manowar surrenders now, will he spare the Earth...or spell its doom? And, as the world descends into pandemonium, can Bloodshot and the Unity team finally pinpoint a weakness in an enemy with more power, more endurance, and more technology? When you can't find a way to win...you'd better find a way to cheat! Valiant's summer...

The Valiant heroes. X-O Manowar. Bloodshot. Ninjak. The Harbinger Renegades. Unity. This is how they lived. This is how they died. Now we know. The Book of the Geomancer has recorded it all. But only a young girl — the last in a line of the enigmatic mystics who protect the Earth known 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...

That was just a battle... Now get ready for the war! X-O Manowar has played the ultimate gambit, and finally leveled the playing field against the villainous Armor Hunters. But the galaxy's deadliest killers haven't come this far just to surrender! Their final charge is now upon us...and it will take the combined powers of X-O Manowar, Unity, Bloodshot and the rest of the Earth's most formidable heroes to save our world from a full-scale cosmic reckoning....

Earth will be the greatest hunt of all... 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....

"A coward dies a thousand times before his death, but the valiant taste of death but once." The Valiant heroes. X-O Manowar. Bloodshot. Ninjak. The Harbinger Renegades. Unity. This is how they lived. This is how they died. Now we know. The Book of the Geomancer has recorded it all. But only a young girl - the last in a line of the enigmatic mystics who protect the Earth known as Geomancers - has seen this future come to pass, from the coming cataclysm...

An evil Geomancer has torn the world asunder... The dark puppet master pulling the strings has been unmasked... And the Valiant Universe as we know it is being torn apart... The end is here! Now, not even the combined might of the Valiant's best and brightest can avert the coming apocalypse - not without a sacrifice, that is. Who will pay the ultimate price to avoid the Armageddon promised in the pages of the Book of the Geomancer? And how will it...

It is a time before civilization... On the brink of carving out victory in the most violent battle of his life, Gilad Anni-Padda suffers a devastating injury. He awakens weeks later in a strange land, nursed back to health but with no memory of his past. A tribe has shown him compassion in an age of cruelty, and he will return their gift in kind. Now the real violence will begin... New York Times best-selling writer Robert Venditti (Hal Jordan &...

The beginning of the all-new Valiant Universe starts here! Aric of Dacia is a brash warrior and heir to the throne of the Visigoth people. He has lived his life under the heel of the Roman Empire, but now a far more terrible enemy has come to subjugate him. Taken from his home and family, Aric is enslaved aboard a starship belonging to a brutal race of alien colonizers known as The Vine. If he is to have any hope of escaping and returning to Earth,...

To this king… a kingdom. Since bonding with the sentient X-O Manowar armor, Aric of Dacia has rampaged unchecked, crushing every enemy in his path. But what happens when a one-man war machine must become the protector of an entire people? Aric's skills as king are about to be put to the test, and the result will set off a chain reaction that will lead to one of the biggest confrontations in the history of the Valiant Universe!

ALL-NEW ARC! ALL-NEW JUMPING-ON POINT! The march toward the greatest Valiant milestone of all time starts here as X-O Manowar begins "LONG LIVE THE KING"! They are The Torment - and their name means death. Thought to be a legend by the extraterrestrial empire called the Vine, they have now become Earth's violent reality. They have traveled for eons to reach us...in search of Aric of Dacia, the unstoppable X-O Manowar. How can Aric of Dacia defeat...