Writer Fred Van Lente takes on the world's most famous barbarian!

Conan and his allies are thrown into battle against an army of brigands, thieves, and ravagers hailing from all corners of the globe and led by a disgraced prince with pillaging on his mind! Conan enters into an uncertain alliance with this damned horde to steal a legendary treasure of immeasurable wealth that leads him on a perilous journey! And in the shadows a great evil lurks, awaiting its chance to destroy Conan!

This enthralling volume collects issues #7--12 of the Dark Horse Comics series Conan the Avenger.

Writer Fred Van Lente leads the way for the world's most famous barbarian!
Conan drinks himself into a stupor of grief while in the troubled city of Shumballa--until a brazen act of thievery against him sends the Cimmerian into a witch-hunt full of adventure, demons, and rebellion! This city on the edge of a revolution must rely on Conan if it is to survive, and when the truth of is revealed, Shumballa will never be the same!

Retreating from the mad, mad world of mechanical overlords, Magnus descends into the SubStructure, where a bizarre collection of feral humans called Gophs live free from robot society. Winding up in the Uncanny Valley, a forbidden sex and death club, the timelost rebel discovers a gladiatorial pit where humans fight to the death, and the slain are dismembered for spare parts. Can Magnus hold his own against the merciless Goph hordes? Collects issues #5-8 of the ongoing Magnus: Robot Fighter series.

From the dawn of the dinosaurs... to the Battle of Trafalgar... to the end of time itself... the first century-spanning adventure of Ivar, Timewalker starts here! At this very moment in Geneva, Switzerland, history is being made. A thousand meters underground inside the Large Hadron Collider, researcher Neela Sethi is about to discover time travel - and jeopardize her life in the process. But she doesn't know that yet. Ten minutes from now, every deadbeat chrononaut, wannabe conqueror, and misguided protector of the timestream will be banging down her door. Good thing that the legendary Ivar, Timewalker, got there first... right? Now it's down to history's most jaded, most tempestuous time traveler to stop the worst of everything that is, was, and will be... before time runs out! New York Times best-selling creators Fred Van Lente (Archer & Armstrong, Amazing Spider-Man) and Clayton Henry (Harbinger, Incredible Hercules) begin a clock-stopping odyssey into the distant past, far future, and every moment in between right here with the first volume of Valiant's latest epic - intro-priced at just $9.99 for new readers!

The critically acclaimed, best-selling YA series returns with an all-new, sci-fi DIY adventure! Celine and Tuck's parents put them to sleep for centuries to ride out the energy crisis - but when they awake in the far future and Mom and Dad are missing, it's the kids who have to save the day! Celine and Tuck must explore a strange, new Earth using their gadgeteering skills to create projects and experiments to survive hostile tribes and bizarre mechanized threats - projects and experiments kids and parents can make themselves at home, and learn basic energy literacy at the same time! Collects HowToons: [Re]Ignition #1-5, along with backup strips/projects by series originators Nick Dragotta and MacArthur 'Genius' Grant winner Saul Griffith.

Writer Fred Van Lente leads the way for the world's most famous barbarian!

Conan drinks himself into a stupor of grief while in the troubled city of Shumballa--until a brazen act of thievery against him sends the Cimmerian into a witch-hunt full of adventure, demons, and rebellion! This city on the edge of a revolution must rely on Conan if it is to survive, and when the truth of is revealed, Shumballa will never be the same!

This exciting volume collects issues #1--6 of the Dark Horse Comics series Conan the Avenger.

Quantum and Woody are the world's worst superhero team. Archer & Armstrong are a mismatched pair of conspiracy-busting adventurers. When a mysterious force collides these ill-suited and irresponsible "heroes" for a cross-country race through the darkest corners of American mythology, all hell is bound to break loose. Can two busted pairs become four of a kind in time to defeat the Hobo King, save the day, and make it back home in time for happy hour? Let's hope so... 'cause these guys make a really, really bad team. (And you don't even want to know about the goat.) It's an all-new superhero joyride from fan-favorite writers James Asmus (Quantum and Woody) and Fred Van Lente (Archer & Armstrong) and heat-seeking artist Kano (Quantum and Woody, Immortal Iron Fist), colliding Quantum and Woody and Archer & Armstrong for the world's most disastrous team-up adventure! Collecting The Delinquents #1-4.

LIVING IT UP AT THE HOTEL CALIFORNIA! His whole life, Obadiah Archer has been lied to about his true heritage - but when he and his pal Armstrong arrive in L.A. to meet his real parents, they find them in the clutches of the Church of Retrology! What insidious plans does The Lizard King, the head of the favored religion of the Left Coast's rich and famous, have for the Valiant Universe's premier conspiracy busters? And what lurks in the Hollywood Hotel? (Hint: You can check in anytime you like, but you can never leave!) Collecting ARCHER & ARMSTRONG #20-25, start reading here to discover the truth behind dead celebrities and the sacred mysteries at the heart of rock 'n' roll as New York Times best-selling writer Fred Van Lente and red-hot artist Pere Perez unleash an all-new history mystery on Valiant's foremost conspiracy-smashers!

Zombies on infinite earths! First, it's monkey on the menu as the original Marvel Zombies invade the dimension of the Marvel Apes! Then, to uncover an antidote to the zombie plague, Machine Man and Howard the Duck set out across the multiverse, battling zombies in the Wild West, Camelot, a future megacity, during a Martian invasion, and on a world suspiciously similar to ours!

COLLECTING: MARVEL APES: PRIME EIGHT 1, MARVEL ZOMBIES: EVIL EVOLUTION 1, MARVEL ZOMBIES 5 1-5, MARVEL ZOMBIES SUPREME 1-5, MARVEL ZOMBIES DESTROY 1-5, MARVEL ZOMBIES HALLOWEEN 1

- In the blink of an eye, young martial artist Magnus has everything taken from him: his father, his wife, his entire life. He's suddenly thrust into a futuristic world he doesn't understand, populated by humans and robots living together in oppression! Can Magnus fight to get his life back... and once he learns the truth about himself, will he want to? - Collects issues #1-4 of the ongoing Magnus: Robot Fighter series.

A step-by-step guide to all aspects of comic book creation--from conceptualization to early drafts to marketing and promotion--written by two of the industry's most seasoned and successful pros.

Discover the Secrets of Your Favorite Comic Book Creators

Do you want to break into the comics industry? There are many creative roles available—writer, penciller, inker, colorist, letterer, editor, and more. Each creator serves a vital function in the production of sequential art at companies such as DC, Marvel, Image, and Valiant. In Make Comics Like the Pros, veteran comics creators Greg Pak and Fred Van Lente team up with a who’s who of the modern comic book scene to lead you step-by-step through the development of a comic. With these two fan-favorite writers as your guides, you’ll learn everything from script formatting to the importance of artistic collaboration to the best strategies for promoting and selling your own sequential art masterpiece. Pak and Van Lente even put their lessons into practice inside the pages of the book—pairing with Eisner Award–winning cartoonist Colleen Coover (Bandette) to produce the swashbuckling, adventure comic Swordmaids, and giving you front row seats to their creative process. Make Comics Like the Pros provides all the answers you’ve been seeking to take your comic book–making dreams all the way to professional-level reality.

Archer & Armstrong are going to war with Bloodshot and H.A.R.D Corps! (GULP!) That's right, Valiant's globe-trotting adventure duo have been targeted for elimination by Project Rising Spirit's most elite kill crew. Their mission? Assassinate the the newly appointed leader of a homegrown fundamentalist terror sect named... Obadiah Archer?! And if they could take out his mentally ill, alcoholic bodyguard who just happens to think he's a 10,000-year-old immortal, that'd be swell, too! It's an improbable mission with impossible odds. Do Bloodshot and the steely killers of the H.A.R.D. Corps stand a chance against two conspiracy-smashing heroes that never go down without a fight? Find out right here with the complete collection of the mayhem-soaked 'Mission: Improbable' crossover, collecting Archer & Armstrong: Archer #0, Archer & Armstrong #18-19, and Bloodshot and H.A.R.D Corps #20-21 by acclaimed writers Fred Van Lente, Joshua Dysart, and Christos Gage, and all-star artists Pere Perez and Tom Raney.

After an agent of the dreaded Black Seers of Yimsha assassinates the king of Vendhya, his sister Yasmina—now a queen—vows revenge! But her plans are derailed when Conan kidnaps her, and soon the Cimmerian has ruthless mercenaries, vengeance-crazed tribesmen, sinister sorcerers, and an entire army hard on his heels! Collects the four-issue miniseries.

* From the celebrated team behind Hercules and Hulk!

* Conan like you've never seen him—fully painted by Olivetti!

* From the new writer of the monthly series!

After returning home to find that a small pocket of mankind is still alive, the Marvel Zombies will either overcome their hunger or feed once more, while Machine Man, Morbius, and others try to repel the undead epidemic.

Every enemy. Against each other. For centuries, the cloak-and-dagger coalition of conspiracies collectively known as The Sect has worked together to bring silent oppression and undercover tyranny to a world that thought it was free. But, now after centuries of profit sharing and uneasy alliances, the factions of The Sect are about to erupt into open conflict...and the only men that can end the insanity are Archer & Armstrong! Too bad they're fighting for different sides! Why? How? And will either survive? The knockdown, drag-out Archer & Armstrong event of the year starts now - and no conspirator is safe! Collecting Archer & Armstrong #14-17 by New York Times best-selling writer Fred Van Lente (Incredible Hercules) and acclaimed artists Khari Evans (Harbinger) and ChrisCross (Superman/Batman), jump into the series that IGN calls 'a must read' with an all-new adventure pitching Archer & Armstrong into their biggest battle yet!

The Mad Monk returns and his personal vendetta against Duke will turn all of New York City into an island of terror! Cobra Commander also sets his sights on the city, but Baroness and Destro have schemes of their own... but whose side will that ally them to?

Archer and Armstrong are on the path to uncovering the dark history that ties America's black-ops base to another dimension.

The greatest hero of Ancient Greece, Hercules battled gods, men and monsters in a lifetime of violence and destruction. Today, Hercules is best known for his 'twelve labors', a series of near-impossible tasks assigned to him as punishment for the killing of his wife and children. During those tasks, he slew the multi-headed hydra, wrestled with Cerberus, hound of the underworld, and stole the girdle of Hippolyta, queen of the Amazons. Yet even when his labours were done, his adventures continued. Hercules led armies, sacked cities, fought against the gods, and then joined forces with the gods in the great war known as 'The Gigantomachy'. This book tells the complete story of this legendary warrior, including information on the classical sources, his deification and cult, and his continuing popularity as a character in film, television and comic books.

'Wolverine's claws and healing factor have helped him survive some of the most dangerous situations and locales. But what happens when dark magic transforms him into a werewolf?'--

Wolverine's claws and healing factor have helped him survive some of the most dangerous situations and locales, until dark magic transforms him into a werewolf.

Not even time itself can escape the Eternal Warrior! No one in the Valiant Universe is more terrifying, more dangerous, or more experienced in the art of war than the undying Eternal Warrior. After thousands of years on the battlefield, he's a master of strategy and weaponry, an unrelenting force of nature capable of dismantling entire armies with little effort and less conscience. His brother Armstrong, on the other hand, likes to read poetry and drink beer. Maybe that's why they had such a bad falling out? But now - after years apart - the Eternal Warrior has a new mission: destroy young Obadiah Archer, Armstrong's best-est new buddy and teammate in the war against The Sect. And, like it or not, Valiant's history-smashing adventure duo is about to feel the wrath of the Eternal Warrior's fist and steel. Collecting ARCHER & ARMSTRONG #0 and ARCHER & ARMSTRONG #10-13 by New York Times best-selling writer Fred Van Lente and acclaimed artists Pere Perez and Clayton Henry, follow Valiant's conspiracy-busting adventurers from the pages of their saga-smashing zero issue and into their most dangerous mission yet!

'Cyclops returns to the X-Men. Will Kitty Pryde continue her training with him, or with Wolverine? Scott Summers and Logan duke it out over the right to be her mentor'--

Once the secret of G.I. Joe's existence gets out, Duke leads his team against COBRA on American soil.

It's history in the breaking! After years of meditation and training, 18-year-old Obadiah Archer has been dispatched to New York City to carry out the sacred mission of his family's sect - locate and kill the fun-loving, hard-drinking immortal known as Armstrong! But as this naive teenage assassin stalks his prey, he'll soon find that both hunter and hunted are just pawns in a centuries-old conspiracy that stretches from the catacombs beneath Wall Street to the heights of the Himalayas. And Archer & Armstrong will have to work together if the future is to stand any chance of surviving the past's greatest threat! From the New York Times best-selling creative team of writer Fred Van Lente (Marvel Zombies) and Clayton Henry (Incredible Herc), this volume collects Archer & Armstrong #1-4!