UNITY (2013)

"To kill a king, he has created an army. The world's most dangerous man, Toyo Harada, has been struck by the one thing he never thought possible - fear. Halfway across the globe, a new power threatens to topple modern civilization and, to preempt the cataclysm that is to come, Harada will unite the most lethal, most volatile, most unforgiving team the world has ever known - UNITY. Their mission: defeat the warrior king armed with the universe's most powerful weapon. Kill X-O Manowar! Be here when New York Times best-selling writer Matt Kindt (Justice League of America, Mind MGMT) and superstar artist Doug Braithwaite (Justice, Journey into Mystery) launch Valiant's first-ever superteam into the landmark comic book event of the year with an all-new ongoing series in UNITY #1, featuring covers by a murderer's row of comics juggernauts - Doug Braithwaite, JG Jones, Bryan Hitch, Paolo Rivera, Clayton Crain, Travel Foreman, and Neal Adams! You've heard the buzz, you've seen the reviews. If you still haven't jumped onto Valiant Comics, the time is now! This November, UNITY is the perfect entry point for new readers."

"Broken but not beaten Unity has to put down X-O Manowar and avert nuclear war. But Harada's super-team lasted a grand total of five minutes last issue before they were taken out. Time for Unity 2.0, but how do you get a cast of malcontents, egotists, immortal warriors, and manipulative backstabbers to work together? The answer? You don't tell them they're working together."

"Enter: Livewire! On an airtight team of stone-cold soldiers, Amanda McKee is the one variable in the equation that equals absolute kill. Now, as the last woman standing against the unstoppable force known as X-O Manowar, the Harbinger Foundation's most seasoned technopath has just added one new item to her resume -- newest bearer of the X-O Manowar armor and the finger behind the trigger of the universe's most powerful weapon. Watch out world this means trouble."

"UNITY divided! Here comes heavyweight showdown you've been waiting for! As Harada's secret machinations come to light, the newly minted UNITY team will be faced with a choice that will change them forever - and the Valiant Universe along with it. Get ready for a world-shaking battle royale as the final installment of UNITY's first adventure pits X-O Manowar and Toyo Harada against the most dangerous battalion ever united - and each other."

"ALL-NEW ARC! START READING HERE! For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. First came UNITY Now meet WEBNET! Coming off of the earth-shattering repercussions of their first mission, Ninjak is leading the newly formed Unity team right back into the trenches to face the Valiant Universe's next colossal threat - the enigmatic Dr. Silk and his high-tech terror cell: WEBNET! With the fate of untold millions on the line, can this team of cutthroat heroes uncover Silk's endgame - and his connection to Ninjak's shadowy past? Move over, Harada - Matt Kindt and Valiant's next superstar artist, CAFU (Action Comics), are about to bring the world's next A-level enemy down on Unity with the force of a hundred hydrogen bombs. "

"Drawn into the WEBNET! Unity is anything but unified as the team fractures and must start from scratch. But they'd better hurry because a new threat is looming and Ninjak must tackle a viral epidemic that has been lying in wait for generations. A sickness is spreading across the land and only the doctor has the cure Dr. Silk!"

"The final deathtrap of Dr. Silk! Ninjak's ultimate enemy has drawn his web tight around X-O Manowar and the rest of Valiant's unbreakable all-star superteam and now they're about to find out how the globe's most brilliantly depraved mind doles out revenge. 'Trapped by Webnet' cuts to an actionpacked conclusion and no one will escape Dr. Silk's grasp unscathed!"

"ARMOR HUNTERS descends on Valiant's all-star superteam in an all-new story arc from New York Times best-selling writer Matt Kindt (Mind MGMT) and red-hot artist Stephen Segovia (Superior Carnage)! When an ultra-powerful threat from deep space begins brutalizing Earth, humanity's first response is - who else? - the fearless team of heroes, soldiers, and short fuses called Unity! Now it's down to Ninjak, Eternal Warrior and Livewire - plus some special surprise recruits - to lead the assault on the Armor Hunters' frontline...even if they die trying!"

"Time to bring in Bloodshot! The unrelenting force that is the Armor Hunters has wreaked havoc across planet Earth, cutting a swath of terror and destruction in their wake. Now the last, best chance at standing against the calculating wrath of the Hunters comes in the form of Unity: Livewire, Ninjak, The Eternal Warrior, and their newest recruit BLOODSHOT?! But can they stop the galactic warriors before they capture X-O Manowar and destroy Earth?! "

"In battle with the Armor Hunters! Mankind is locked in a life or death struggle against the alien Armor Hunters, and the fate of civilization itself now lies with the the unlikely team of short-tempered walking weapons called Unity! Can X-O Manowar give Ninjak, Livewire, and the Eternal Warrior enough of an edge to stop the galaxy's most feared team of hunter-killers before more die? There's no quarter asked and none given as Valiant's all-star superteam goes on the offensive!"

"Last hope. Last stand. In the wake of Livewire's stunning sacrifice, how will X-O Manowar, Ninjak, and the Eternal Warrior comes to terms? With a punishing revenge mission led by Bloodshot, that's how! If it bleeds, they can kill it and the leaner, meaner Unity team just became a living, breathing box of armor-piercing rounds. The Armor Hunters put Earth in their bullseye Now, the bullseye bites back! "

"ALL-NEW ARC! WHO ARE THE UNITED? A new day has dawned for the elite assemblage of heroes called UNITY, and, in the wake of the Armor Hunters' invasion, the time has come to grow their ranks. Who will be the next fearless hero to join the roster of the world's most elite superteam? And just what is the international strike force called THE UNITED - and why have they marked UNITY's own X-O Manowar, Ninjak, Livewire, and Eternal Warrior for elimination? Red-hot creators Matt Kindt and CAFU detonate the planet's fi rst superteam vs. superteam war right here with a bold new beginning for UNITY!"

"A Renegade stands against The United! Even the addition of the bright and bubbly Faith Herbert - aka Zephyr of the Harbinger Renegades - can't solve Unity's PR crisis in the wake of the team's actions during the Armor Hunters' attack. But can she help stand against the threat of the international strike force known as THE UNITED? And what secret is the US harboring that threatens to push the world to the brink of war?"

"A world on fire! Unity vs. The United! A dark secret at the heart of the Unity team has led the world to the brink of global war. Only Unity and their international counterparts, The United, can broker a peace but that might not work, seeing as how they're trying to kill each other. All hope lies with Unity's newest team member, who may not be able to shoulder the weight of the world!"

"ALL-NEW ARC! New York Times best-selling writer Matt Kindt (THE VALIANT, RAI) and Harvey Award nominee Pere Perez (ARCHER & ARMSTRONG) rebuild the world's most elite superteam one member at a time! The United have left Unity decimated - a member lost, a terrible secret revealed, and the entire world turned against them. Not Harada, not Dr. Silk, not even the mighty Armor Hunters left the team as fractured as this! Now, Unity must decide where their place is in this new world and whether they will stand together or fall apart, beginning with the one teammate that might just be the most dangerous of all the lethal intelligence operative called NINJAK!"

"War on the HOMEFRONT! After a violent and devastating battle, the Eternal Warrior - one of the world's immortals, and its greatest wager of war - must once again grapple with his most implacable enemy - the countless days behind him and the life that's about to become a memory!"

"'HOMEFRONT' reaches critical mass as Livewire takes on a deadly solo mission for the future of Unity! Facing the most challenging battle of their lives, Unity struggles to hang on. Livewire, defacto leader of the team, can barely keep her life together how can she corral a group of lethal warriors? And if she fails what price will the world pay?"

"The truth is declassified! Discover what top-secret mission very nearly broke Unity and brought its heroes to the brink and beyond. And has Major Palmer, the veteran field commander of H.A.R.D. Corps, come to lead Unity to a new day or infiltrate it and bring it down?"

"ALL-NEW ARC! ALL-NEW VILLAIN! X-O MANOWAR RETURNS...AND THE WAR-MONGER RISES! Unity has faced every evil that's come at them and lived but can they survive humankind's darkest menace? When a mysterious new threat rears its head, the Eternal Warrior remembers encountering it in World War II and barely making it out alive! Now he must marshal X-O Manowar, Livewire, and Ninjak if Unity has any hope of defeating THE WAR-MONGER!"

"Out of the darkest recesses of the 20th century the War-Monger returns to rage against the combined might of Valiant's most elite superteam! For thousands of years, the Eternal Warrior has waged battle; and for thousands of years, one spirit has vexed him the spirit of warfare itself. Today, Gilad Anni-Padda and his teammates in Unity must reckon with a long-thought-forgotten enemy-unseen since Unit-Y faced it in World War II-now returned to bring destruction and death to the heroes once and for all. Unity may not survive the coming of War-Monger!"

"The world tips closer to the brink of World War III, and the unstoppable War-Monger tears a swath through the ranks of Unity today and always! Can X-O Manowar, Livewire, Ninjak, and the Eternal Warrior fare any better than their predecessors? War-Monger took apart the rosters of decades past, and now Unity faces their most implacable enemy and they don't even know they're already losing!"

"We have met the enemy-and she is War! War-Monger has decimated countless generations of heroes in her endless quest to sow conflict and strife throughout the world and she's already taken apart each member of Unity! If the team hopes to rally and stop this malevolent force of chaos they'll need the help of the one man War-Monger cannot defeat the forgotten member of Unity!"

"The Armor Hunters never leave a man behind! Deep under the mountains of the American Southwest, Quartz, of the Armor Hunters who attacked Earth, is kept secure in government custody. Escape is impossible from the inside. But can the combined might of the U.S. armed forces, X-O Manowar, and Unity stop a jailbreak from the outside when that attack is an all-out suicide strike by Unity's giant killer robot GIN-GR?! The galaxy's deadliest squad of killers will have their revenge as multiple Harvey Award nominee James Asmus (QUANTUM AND WOODY) and red-hot rising star Diego Bernard (X-O MANOWAR) take charge of Valiant's elite superteam for an action-packed two-part story arc!"

"Unity vs. the Armor Hunters rematch! GIN-GR, the reformed killer robot who destroyed Mexico City and rampaged through downtown Los Angeles during the Armor Hunters' attack, has turned on her Unity teammates! As she perpetrates the world's most unstoppable jailbreak - a head-first, guns-blazing, kamikaze flight straight into the military base that holds her one-time squad - can X-O Manowar, Livewire, Ninjak, and the Eternal Warrior stop the giant engine of destruction while trapped inside it? And if they survive GIN-GR, all they have to look forward to is the remaining Armor Hunters attacking from all sides! Multiple Harvey Award nominee James Asmus (QUANTUM AND WOODY) and rising superstar artist Diego Bernard (X-O MANOWAR) rocket UNITY into their most action-packed battle yet!"

"SUPER-SUPERSIZED FINAL ISSUE FREE-FOR-ALL! THE VALIANT UNIVERSE COLLIDES WITH AN ALL-STAR CAST OF COMEDY ALL-STARS FOR UNITY'S 48-PAGE FAREWELL! In the wake of BOOK OF DEATH Unity is no more. But before Valiant's elite superteam says goodbye, an all-star lineup of writers, artists, and humorists reveal the unusual, offbeat, never-before-seen, lesser-known adventures of Unity! The tales too incredible to believe! The missions too oddball for public consumption! Think Bloodshot only joined the team long enough to fight the Armor Hunters? Discover his newly declassified Unity missions! You saw Faith help Unity fight their opposite counterparts, the United find out how else she helped out the team! Remember that time Quantum and Woody's goat joined Unity? No? Well, it happened! We promise. Matt Kindt presents the grand finale to his acclaimed two-year run on Valiant's premier superteam but not before James Asmus (QUANTUM AND WOODY), Elliott Kalan (The Daily Show), Tim Siedell (The Nightly Show), Michael Kupperman (Tales Designed to Thrizzle), Ty Templeton (Batman Adventures), Donny Cates & Eliot Rahal (The Paybacks) and more put Unity through the wringer! Plus: the comics debut of writer/director, creator and host of the cult-favorite podcast The Best Show, professional chump-steamroller, Tom Scharpling!"