Valiant Comics have announced three new series, “Book of Shadows,” “Bloodshot Unleashed,” and “X-O Manowar Unconquered,” all beginning in the latter half of 2022.
– “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. “Will they be enough to stop Exarch Fane’s wrath?,” asks the official synopsis. The first issue releases July 27, 2022.
– “Bloodshot Unleashed,” by writer Deniz Camp and artist Jon Davis-Hunt, will be the character’s first mature-rated comic. It will see Raymond Garrison hunting escaped living weapons, who have fled to the “neglected small towns and forgotten corners” of the United States. “Will Bloodshot need to kill all of them… or can some of them be redeemed just like he was?” Issue #1 releases in September.
– “X-O Manowar Unconquered” will be penned by “Wonder Woman” writers Becky Cloonan and Michael W. Conrad, and feature art by Liam Sharp. The book was simply described as taking Aric of Dacia, the time-displaced Visigoth warrior with alien armor, into “uncharted cosmic territory, [as] he encounters a powerful enemy that will rip open old wounds and force [him] into treacherous, uncertain waters.” It will debut in November.
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.
