Battle royale! The moment you?ve been waiting for is here?the final, steel-splintering showdown between Ninjak and Master Darque! But when Valiant?s top assassin and lord of death come to blows, you can bet there?s going to be serious collateral. What will become of the deadly crime cartel known as the Shadow Seven? What final fate awaits the life of Ninjak?s former lover and most hated enemy, Roku? All will be revealed as Ninjak enters a blistering barrage of revelations and revenge?and exits with a brand-new place in the Valiant Universe!

Colin King must travel to Rome to repay an old friend on his wedding day. But Ninjak's trip might prove to be more than he bargained for when Vatican secret agents crash the wedding!

Darque destinies! Once sworn enemies, Ninjak and the Shadow Seven have forged an uneasy alliance to accomplish their singular goal: kill Master Darque! But why can?t Colin King shake the feeling that he?s leading a suicide mission, or that his mysterious benefactor, Sandria Darque, isn?t giving him the whole story? Ninjak?s about to confront a terrifying truth?and the answers just might destroy him!

Darque destinies! Master Darque ? the sadistic lord of death and resurrection ? yearns to be free once again, but first he must fight for his life. Darque is a target, his powers are weak, and his enemies know it. Now, Darque?s own former pupil and Ninjak?s ruthless arch-nemesis ? the lethal assassin known as Roku ? has gathered the Shadow Seven together again for the sole purpose of putting Darque down for good. And the only thing holding their uneasy alliance together is a mysterious benefactor from the shadows? someone who also goes by the name Darque?Everything has led to this? Out of the ashes of BOOK OF DEATH, Ninjak and Master Darque will collide in a punishing circle of death, destruction and hellfire! Join New York Times best-selling writer Matt Kindt (DIVINITY III: STALINVERSE) and blistering artists Marc Laming (Planet Hulk) and Stephen Segovia (UNITY) here for a steel-hardened jumping-on point that will leave Valiant?s seven-time Harvey Award-nominated series forever scarred! Collecting NINJAK #22?27.

Class is in session as Valiant's all-ages escapade escalates! As Valiant Universe?s best and brightest young minds know all too well, Valiant High isn?t your average everyday high school... It?s the kind of place where dodgeball is a literal blood sport and trying to find a date to homecoming can be just as stressful as saving the world! But deep within the hero-filled halls of this otherwise prestigious institute, Principal Harada is hiding a mysterious secret?and Valiant High's newest foreign exchange student, Colin ?Ninjak? King, is ready to seek out the truth ? once he?s done giving omega-level nerd Peter Stanchek a cool-kid makeover first, of course! Get ready for second period as rising star Daniel Kibblesmith (QUANTUM AND WOODY!,?The Late Show With Stephen Colbert) and Eisner Award-winning artist Derek Charm (Jughead) detail another hysterical day in the life of the world?s most talented teenagers, in an incredible all-ages adventure set outside of Valiant?s standard superhero continuity!

Archer & Armstrong: Enemies of the State! In the Soviet-controlled world of the Stalinverse, there is a place where liberty is sentenced to die...and it?s Gulag 396. A maximum-security prison where the only escape is through death, the gulag is the final stop for all enemies and detractors of the world?s oppressive authority. But when public enemy Obadiah Archer is admitted as the latest inmate, could his gospel of goodwill and optimism be the spark that ignites a new faith in the prison?s population...including the immortal undesirable known as Aram Addi-Padda?

Friends in need! Sometimes saving the world entails a little help from your friends. When a suspicious new intern comes to Zipline, asking questions about celeb columnist Faith Herbert, it?s up to her coworkers to help safeguard her secret identity as Summer Smith. Faith?s greatest power has always been inspiring others ? see just how much she?s changed the lives of her new friends in this special one-shot story!

WAR IS COMING! Born under the oppressive thumb of the Roman Empire, Aric of Dacia learned warfare at an early age. It was amid such violence that he was abducted by an alien race. Forced into slavery, he survived where others perished. His escape would come from bonding with a weapon of immeasurable power: the X-O Manowar armor. With it, he returned to Earth...only to find himself stranded in the modern day. But that was a lifetime ago. Now, far from home on a strange and primitive new world, Aric has begun a new life. Liberated from his past, he tends to his crops. Free from war. Free from violence. Free from the armor. But the machinery of death marches his way once again. Conscripted into an alien army and thrown into an unforgiving conflict, the fury inside him finds voice as he is forced to embrace the armor once more. With it, he will decimate armies, topple empires and incite interplanetary warfare as he rises from SOLDIER to GENERAL to EMPEROR to VISIGOTH. They wanted a weapon. He will give them war! A stunning new beginning for Valiant?s most enduring icon starts here as New York Times best-selling writer Matt Kindt (Divinity, Ninjak, Mind MGMT) and a rotating cast of powerhouse interior artists spanning the series? first year ? including Tomas Giorello (4001 A.D.: War Mother,?Bloodshot Reborn), Doug Braithwaite (Armor Hunters,?Bloodshot U.S.A.), Clayton Crain (Rai, Carnage), Ryan Bodenheim (The Dying & The Dead), and Mico Suayan (Bloodshot Reborn) ? present the biggest Valiant debut of all time?and unleash the brutal opening salvo of the ultimate X-O Manowar tale ever told!

Perhaps the most important issue in Jeff Lemire's continuing Bloodshot epic. Don't miss this very special story...as we unveil a shocking new revelation in the Bloodshot saga. The next chapter of Bloodshot starts here!

A (literal) battle of the minds! Generation Zero are trapped inside the Heroscape ? a twisted, extra-dimensional realm where they can explore the world as it looks through someone else?s eyes? And, unfortunately, it seems that most of their friends and neighbors have some pretty messed up stuff going on up there! They led insurgencies and counter-strikes, but can anything in this team?s precision military training prepare them for the darkness that lurks at the heart of Rook?s collective unconscious?