(W) Matt Kindt (A/CA) Clayton Crain The most ambitious comics event of 2016 brings war to the 41st century - with Rai leading the charge! One hundred years from today, Father - the benevolent artificial intelligence that governs the island nation of Japan - will gain sentience. To defend its borders, Father will take drastic action by launching Japan into space...where its people will thrive in isolation, away from the overpopulated and resource-deprived planet below. Over the centuries, as New Japan orbits our increasingly unstable world, it will become a model society - one built on peace, prosperity... and Father's control. A thousand years from today, Father will create the first Rai, founding a lineage of technologically enhanced heroes engineered to defend New Japan and sworn to protect it from all enemies. For hundreds of years into the future, the Rai will single-handedly enforce New Japan's justice well...and serve Father without question. Now, at the dawn of 4001 A.D., the latest Rai is about to inherit the dark truth behind the origin of his kind...and discover the sin

(W) Matt Kindt (A/CA) Clayton Crain The critically acclaimed series continues as New York Times bestselling writer Matt Kindt and superstar artist Clayton Crain return for the second staggering volume of RAI! In the aftermath of the devastating battle for 41st-century Japan, Rai must pick up the pieces as he grapples with the startling truth about Father and his purpose. Will Rai remain a champion of the people or will he succumb to the same fate as the men who carried the mantle before him? And why is everyone looking at him so strangely? Go back to the future with all-star creators Matt Kindt (UNITY, Mind MGMT) and Clayton Crain (X Force, Carnage) as they crack open a brand-new chapter for Valiant's smash-hit ongoing series! Collecting RAI #5-8.

(W) Peter Milligan (A/CA) Clayton Crain What's worse than one mayhem-inducing alien symbiote? Two. What's worse than that? Three! That's right: Venom's offspring, Carnage, is about to give birth itself - to a symbiotic creature of indescribable power and appetite. The question is, who's gonna bring up baby? Not Cletus Kasady - the psychopathic serial killer wants to end his 'son's' life before it's even begun! But as Venom and Carnage clash violently over the fate of their progeny, the newborn symbiote claims a host - and a New York City police officer finds himself drawn into a world of madness and mayhem! Can he rise to the occasion and tame the literal beast within, or will the newly minted Toxin break bad? Spider-Man and the Black Cat join the fray as symbiotes battle to the death and one man fights for his soul! Collecting VENOM VS. CARNAGE #1-4. 96 PGS./Rated T+