Wayne Russell is an elite pararescue jumper in the Air Force serving in Afghanistan. He leads the most rigorously trained troops on the most dangerous missions into enemy territory. During a deadly mission, Wayne's team is ambushed. Mortally wounded, Wayne finds and fires an experimental weapon, but the weapon malfunctions. The result will change Wayne and warfare forever.

BRILLIANT tells the story of a handful of college-age geniuses who challenge each other to solve the mystery of superpowers. Can the best and brightest change science fiction into science fact? And if so, how will the world at large react?

Discover all-new allies, enemies and adventure as The Atom leaps from the pages of BRIGHTEST DAY into this one-shot special! Rising stars Jeff Lemire (SWEET TOOTH) and Mahmud Asrar (Avengers: The Initiative) update the Atom’s origin and kick off the tiny titan’s next major story, which continues this month in ADVENTURE COMICS #516.

Following the events of Brightest Day, the new protector of Earth has been chosen. But one reluctant hero making his return to the DCU is trying to convince Batman, Superman and the others heroes of the DC Universe that this may not be a good thing, because he can see that things are not right and mankind's brightest days are indeed over.

The biggest event in comics continues as Brightest Day burns back the Blackest Night from the writing team behind Green Lantern and Green Lantern Corps – Geoff Johns and Peter J. Tomasi! And don't miss the exciting DC Comics debut of red hot cover artist David Finch (New Avengers, Ultimatum)! The effects that the already classic Blackest Night will have on the DC Universe will be felt for years to come and this issue not only sets the stage for the new ongoing biweekly DC Universe book Brightest Day, but also the next exciting era of the DC Universe!

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Bridging the gap between Youngblood #0 and the first issue of last year’s Brigade mini-series, Brigade #0 chronicles the sequence of events leading up to the formation of the Brigade team, including Battlestone’s first confrontation with Youngblood and Shaft! Guest-starring Emp, of Jim Lee’s WildC.A.T.s.

Brigade is a team of super-heroes funded by two wealthy brothers, Coldsnap and Seahawk, who take an active part in their investment. Battlestone, formerly the leader of the Youngblood team, heads Brigade. Atlas, a giant; Kayo, an archer; and two women: Thermal, who can throw fire, and Stasis, who can create anti-motion force fields, round out the team. Not sanctioned by the government, these vigilantes nevertheless manage to find situations which challenge their skills and teamwork.

This special extra-sized premiere issue introduces the next great hero of the DCU -- or perhaps its next great threat. At heart Major Tim Porter is just a man torn between conscience and duty. But nothing could have prepared him to lose decades from his life and most of his humanity. Now the man known as Breach has awakened, and the world is definitely not ready for him or the threat he represents!

Ambushed while protecting an important statesman, Matt Price, a.k.a. Brain Boy, finds himself wrapped up in political intrigue that could derail a key United Nations conference and that sets the psychic spy on a collision course with a man whose mental powers rival his own! Collects Brain Boy #0-#3.

Continues from Captain Battle Jr.

For decades, readers thought the Punisher's crusade against the criminal underworld began with the brutal murder of his loving wife and children in Central Park. But that isn't the whole story. In the tradition of Wolverine: Origin, witness the true birth of the Punisher years before, as Marine Frank Castle the man enters his third tour of duty in Vietnam, but leaves a force of nature!

Meet the greatest hero the world has never known: Booster Gold! Writer Geoff Johns (INFINITE CRISIS) launches the series focusing on the time-hopping, real-jumping hero picking up on pieces from the weekly series 52! Together with fellow time-traveler Rip Hunter, Booster Gold patrols time itself to make right what once went wrong in the DC Universe!

Following the universe altering conclusion of 52, Booster Gold wants what's due to him — a spot on the Justice League of America! But the time stream's in trouble, and Booster Gold is in the center of it! Now he must make a choice: reclaim his former glory or do the right thing, forgoing the credit.

One of the first of the new titles and characters appearing after the Crisis on Infinite Earths. This volume featured the debut of the time traveling hero Boost Gold created by Dan Jurgens. The title ran for 25 issues, which propelled Booster Gold to become a recurring member of the Justice League.

See Doom's life from the early moments to the day he took the throne of Latveria! When Victor becomes obsessed with the dark arts, his experiments attract the interest of global powers and bring his tribe into conflict with the rulers of Latveria.

So let it be written? So let it be done? From New York Times best-selling writers Robert Venditti (X-O MANOWAR), Jeff Lemire (THE VALIANT), Matt Kindt (DIVINITY), Joshua Dysart (IMPERIUM) and a powerhouse roster of all-star artists comes the blockbuster crossover event that will forge the future of the Valiant Universe - collected in its entirety for the first time anywhere! The Valiant heroes. X-O Manowar. Bloodshot. Ninjak. The Harbinger Renegades. Unity. This is how they lived. This is how they died. Now we know. The Book of the Geomancer has recorded it all. But only a young girl - the last in a line of the enigmatic mystics who protect the Earth known as Geomancers - has seen this future come to pass, from the coming cataclysm to the dawn of the 41st century. Alone with her sworn protector, the Eternal Warrior - a soldier battle forged across five thousand years of combat - the duo must defy their allies to stop the Dark Age that now threatens to eclipse our world. Together, they are the number one target of every hero and villain on Earth. Either the Eternal Warrior hands her over?or they take him down. But can even he singlehandedly protect one child when the entire Valiant Universe wages war against him?

Forget what you know about Bomb Queen. 100 years in the future, the world has become a utopian paradise. Governments and religion are at peace, but that tranquility is threatened when Bomb Queen is unleashed out of her slumber, however her return won't come easy when she learns the truth about the new world. A whole new series as shock follows shock for our favorite sovereign. And wait until you see who's joining the cast!

Image superheroes are lining up to congratulate President Obama, But NOT the villain dictator of New Port City. Bomb Queen is seething with bloodlust when the new administration targets her criminal city for closure along with Guantanamo Bay. Bomb Queen vs. Barack Obama? Only Image would dare! Don't miss it! NEW STORY ARC! JUMP ONBOARD THE WILDEST SERIES IN COMICS!!