

The books join next month’s “ Armorclads,” and Steve Foxe and Marcio Fiorito’s upcoming relaunch “Archer & Armstrong Forever” ( coming in May) as part of the ‘Year of Valiant.’ It remains to be seen if the new range of titles will persuade fans who threatened to boycott Valiant over their recent, aggressive push of NFTs, to change their minds. The book was simply described as taking Aric of Dacia, the time-displaced Visigoth warrior with alien armor, into “uncharted cosmic territory, he encounters a powerful enemy that will rip open old wounds and force into treacherous, uncertain waters.” It will debut in November. – “X-O Manowar Unconquered” will be penned by “Wonder Woman” writers Becky Cloonan and Michael W. “Will Bloodshot need to kill all of them… or can some of them be redeemed just like he was?” Issue #1 releases in September. It will see Raymond Garrison hunting escaped living weapons, who have fled to the “neglected small towns and forgotten corners” of the United States. A brutally unflinching examination of who BLOODSHOT is, the action-packed new series BLOODSHOT UNLEASHED is set against a backdrop of violence that echoes his own abuse at the hands of others by pitting him against deadly rampaging monsters in small town America who reflect his own place in the Valiant Universe. – “Bloodshot Unleashed,” by writer Deniz Camp and artist Jon Davis-Hunt, will be the character’s first mature-rated comic. “Will they be enough to stop Exarch Fane’s wrath?,” asks the official synopsis. – “Book of Shadows,” by current “Shadowman” writer Cullen Bunn with artist Riccardo Latina, will see Jack Boniface team up with Punk Mambo, the Eternal Warrior, Doctor Mirage, and more, against the evil Exarch Fane, who has gained possession of the Book of Shadows.
