(W) Jeff Lemire & Various (A) CAFU & Various (CA) Stephen Segovia Not a dream... Not an alternate reality... This is the Valiant Universe of today... The world has gone red and Valiant's leading legends - Bloodshot, X-O Manowar and Shadowman - now stand at the forefront of the global Soviet war machine Meanwhile, the conspiracy-smashing duo of Archer & Armstrong find themselves condemned as enemies of the state and sentenced to life in the deadliest prison known to man. Torn from the pages of DIVINITY III: STALINVERSE, come four essential tales chronicling the history that has reordered the Valiant Universe as we know it, from acclaimed writers Jeff Lemire (Bloodshot Reborn), Joe Harris (Snowfall), Scott Bryan Wilson (Batman Annual), Eliot Rahal (The Paybacks) and all-star artists Clayton Crain (4001 A.D.), CAFU (Rai), Robert Gill (Book of Death), and Francis Portela (Faith). Collecting DIVINITY III: KOMANDAR BLOODSHOT #1, DIVINITY III: ARIC, SON OF THE REVOLUTION #1, DIVINITY III: SHADOWMAN AND THE BATTLE FOR NEW STALINGRAD #1, and DIVINITY III: ESCAPE FROM GULAG 396 #1.

(W) Joshua Dysart (A) CAFU & Various (CA) Mico Suayan In 1945, the bombing of Hiroshima awakened an immense and terrifying power inside young Toyo Harada, a power that he could one day use to build a better world. With the existence of superpowered psiots revealed to the world and his Harbinger Foundation left in ruins, Harada has been run to ground, and the world's most powerful man is about to become its most dangerous… Eisner Award-nominated writer Joshua Dysart (HARBINGER) returns to the Valiant Universe alongside CAFU (RAI) and a lineup of all-star Valiant artists for a sweeping, continent-spanning chronicle of Toyo Harada's last gambit to remake Earth in his own utopian image…or sacrifice everything in the process.

(W) Matt Kindt (A) CAFU (CA) David Mack Rocketing out of the pages 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.

(W) Matt Kindt (A) CAFU, Cary Nord (CA) Lewis LaRosa 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? Join New York Times bestselling writers Matt Kindt and Joshua Dysart, and red hot artists CAFU, Cary Nord and Robert Gill as they look back with the Eternal Warrior to the trenches of WWI and the top secret missions of Unit-Y before detonating the planet's first superteam vs. superteam war right here with a bold new beginning for UNITY! Collecting UNITY #12-14, UNITY #0, and Harbinger:Faith #0.

(W) Al Ewing, Torunn Gronbekk (A/CA) CAFU Father and son go head to head to decide who will host the symbiote as VENOM WAR rages! Following Carnage's battle with Venom and his assault on the Garden of Time, Eddie Brock - all the Eddie Brocks - are in free fall...literally! The future of the entire Earth - and all of time - is now at stake. Because both Eddie and his son, Dylan, have glimpsed terrifying visions of each other's future as Venom. For calamity to be averted, can either Brock suffer the other to live? As their inter-generational war breaks out, another, older Dylan Brock is on a mission to make sure things go the way they're supposed to. That's right: Old Man Venom is jumping through time to guarantee the correct victor in the Venom War, starting with a jaunt that takes him right into Spider-Man's early history! COLLECTING: Venom (2021) 35-39 Rated T+