From New York Times best-selling writer Matt Kindt (DIVINITY, THE VALIANT) and superstar artist Clayton Crain (Carnage), discover the world of 41st century Japan with an all-new vision of the future unlike anything you've seen before - now in deluxe, oversized hardcover! The year is 4001 A.D. - led by the artificial intelligence called "Father," the island nation of Japan has expanded out of the Pacific and into geosynchronous orbit with the ravaged Earth below. With billions to feed and protect, it has fallen to one solitary guardian to enforce the law of Father's empire - the mysterious folk hero known as Rai. They say he can appear out of nowhere. They say he is a spirit... the ghost of Japan. But when the first murder in a thousand years threatens to topple Father's benevolent reign, Rai will be forced to confront the true face of a nation transformed... and his own long-lost humanity... Collecting RAI #1-12, along with material from RAI #1 PLUS EDITION and RAI #5 PLUS EDITION, this prestige-sized hardcover comes packed with more than 20 pages of rarely seen art and extras direct from the Valiant vaults.

Rai falls to Earth in??THE ORPHAN?! Broken, beaten, and cast down to Earth, Rai and his allies now find themselves hunted, persecuted, and imprisoned for their failed rebellion against Father. Stranded thousands of miles from his former home, Rai is now more determined than ever to save his friends and bring down New Japan?s malevolent ruler once and for all?but how can he do that from Earth? And just what secrets will New Japan?s rising son discover as he journeys across the face of a planet scarred by his nation?s ascent to the stars? Superstar creative team Matt Kindt (THE VALIANT, DIVINITY) and Clayton Crain (Carnage) return to their one-of-a-kind vision for the future as Rai discovers the true fate of the world New Japan left behind?and the Earth of 4001 is revealed! Collecting?RAI #9-12.

The legendary future of the Valiant Universe ? back in print after 20 years! 4001 A.D. ? Tohru Nakadai is the 42nd Rai, the spirit guardian of Japan. Infused with the energy of his ancestors and dedicated to the way of the samurai, Rai is sworn to the service of Grandmother ? the personified artificial intelligence that governs the island nation of Japan. For forty generations Grandmother?s benevolent dominion has endured, but in the wake of her sudden disappearance, Rai will become all that stands between his nation and all-out chaos. As humanist factions war with mechanist loyalists for control of the future, the masterless Tohru is about to become the first Rai that must choose for himself how best to defend his people, his family, and his honor. Collecting RAI (1992) #1-8 in a deluxe hardcover format for the first time anywhere, revisit the future of the original Valiant Universe with Rai?s critically acclaimed, highly sought-after adventures from legendary creators David Michelinie (Amazing Spider-Man, Iron Man), Joe St. Pierre (Spider-Man 2099), Peter Grau (Titans) and Sal Velluto (Bloodshot)!

Welcome to the 41st century: New worlds, new characters, new adventures. The cyborg ronin named Rai embarks on a thrilling quest to save the future. Side by side with his prototype and predecessor ? the robot boy called Raijin ? the spirit guardian of the fallen nation of New Japan will journey into the wastelands of Earth to set right the wrongs of their onetime overlord once and for all. Multiple New York Times bestselling and award-winning writer Dan Abnett (Guardians of the Galaxy) joins forces with breathtaking artist Juan Jos? Ryp (X-O MANOWAR) to begin the essential sci-fi series of the next two thousand years! Collecting RAI (2019) #1?5.

Rocketing out of the pages of 4001 A.D...the origin of Rai revealed!? For the first time ever, witness the violent foundation of Father?s space-born utopia of New Japan...and, with it, the shocking genesis of the line of guardians that bear the name Rai! Born and bred by Father to enforce peace at any cost, follow the first Rai and his successors across two millennia as they chronicle the history of 4001 A.D. - from the launch of New Japan into orbit to the latest Rai?s crusade to bring it crashing back down to Earth! Valiant mastermind Matt Kindt (4001 A.D.) and visionary artist CAFU (UNITY) uncover the never-before-told story of New Japan?s rise to power...and reveal just how the Valiant Universe of today became the 4001 A.D. of tomorrow! Collecting?RAI #13-16.

On the fringes of civilization, the world's first detective is about to make an unholy discovery... Comics legend Peter Milligan (X-Statix, Shade the Changing Man) and incendiary artists Juan Jose Ryp (NINJAK, Clone) and Robert Gill (BOOK OF DEATH) lead a phantasmagorical expedition in the lands between darkness, desire, and destruction right here in a deluxe oversized hardcover collecting the 10-time sold out magnum opus that Gizmodo calls a "unique take... that conquered our hearts." Ruled by the Fates. Manipulated by the Gods. Commanded by Caesar. In the year 65 A.D., one's destiny was not his own. At the height of Nero's reign, a veteran of Rome's imperial war machine has been dispatched to the farthest reaches of the colonies to investigate unnatural happenings... In the remote outpost of Britannia, Antonius Axia - the First Detective - will become Rome's only hope to reassert control over the empire's most barbaric frontier...and keep the monsters that bridge the line between myth and mystery at bay... Collecting BRITANNIA #1-4, BRITANNIA: WE WHO ARE ABOUT TO DIE #1-4, and BRITANNIA: LOST EAGLES OF ROME #1-4, along with over 20+ pages of rarely seen art and extras!

Archer & Armstrong is a superhero buddy comedy without the tights. Archer is the world's greatest hand-to-hand fighter, an expert marksman, and a seeker of truth and righteousness. Since being murdered by his parents, he has returned from the dead convinced that God has empowered him to right the wrongs of the world. Armstrong is a ten-thousand year old libertine as strong as a battalion who abandoned naive idealism thousands of years ago. He spends his days wandering the world drinking, fighting. And telling stories of his unbelievable adventures throughout history. On the run from an ancient cult and its bumbling agents that have been hunting Armstrong for two thousand years, the unlikely pair team up to face down the threat that could destroy the world!

Fifteen years ago, the world?s most famous soccer star and his former supermodel wife ?pregnant with their unborn child ? disappeared without a trace. The world believes they are dead? But, in reality, their private jet crash-landed on a mysterious, unknown island ruled by prehistoric creatures from another time? This is the story of how they lost their humanity. Acclaimed writer B. Clay Moore (Aloha, Hawaiian Dick), and explosive artists Clayton Henry (ARCHER & ARMSTRONG) and Lewis LaRosa (BLOODSHOT REBORN) present a relentless epic of survival in a cold-blooded land ruled by instinct alone in the must-read debut of Valiant?s next major hero! Collecting SAVAGE #1?4.

Earth has a new god. The world you know is gone. Welcome to the Stalinverse, comrade. Welcome to the year 2017?where the Soviet Union has spent decades as the world?s reigning superpower and the Iron Curtain now encircles a planet riddled with war, strife, and oppression. Freedom is a thing of the past in the Stalinverse? So why can?t Russian intelligence officer Colin King shake the feeling that something has gone terribly wrong? He?ll put his freedom and life on the line to uncover the truth? Even if that means finding out whatever happened to the long-missing cosmonaut Abram Adams ? the one man who just might hold the keyto unraveling the dystopian world of today? New York Times best-selling writer Matt Kindt (4001 A.D.) and blockbuster artist Trevor Hairsine (Divinity II) bring you the Valiant Universe like you?ve never seen it before! Collecting DIVINITY III: STALINVERSE #1-4.

For nearly a century, MI-6, the most elite branch of Britain?s clandestine intelligence service, has honed a ruthlessly effective, top-secret division ? THE NINJA PROGRAMME ? into one of its nation?s most finely wielded weapons. Tasked as the first and last line of defense for queen and country, this small shadow army of agents and assassins has produced a succession of notable assets, including NINJA-A, the Queen?s silent weapon of World War I; NINJA-E, the globe-trotting secret agent that pulled the Cold War back from the brink of Armageddon; and, most recently, NINJA-K, aka Colin King, a brash but fearless instrument of lethality that has saved the world from madmen and terror at every turn. But now?an unknown enemy is hunting and killing members of THE NINJA PROGRAMME one by one ? and NINJAK is next on the list. A new can't-miss ongoing series from renowned writer Christos Gage (Netflix?s Daredevil) and Valiant?s latest superstar artist, Tom?s Giorello (X-O MANOWAR), starts here with stunningly precise jumping-on point revealing the classified history of the black-budget spy network that trained Colin King and his predecessors?and leading Ninjak on a manhunt through a cold, calculating world of espionage and international intrigue in search of a killer targeting all ninja agents ? past and present! Collecting NINJA-K #1?5.