La prochaine série relancée par Valiant sera H.A.R.D. Corps. Créé par Jim Shooter et David Lapham, l’acronyme H.A.R.D. signifie Harbinger Active Resistance Division et suit une équipe tactique travaillant pour le compte de Toyo Harada, chef des entreprises Omen. Les membres de l’équipe sont d’anciens comateux réveillés par un implant expérimental leur donnant accès à différentes capacités.
Cette nouvelle version du H.A.R.D. Corps sera d’abord introduite dans le crossover Harbingers Wars. L’équipe créative n’a pas été annoncée.
Ci-dessous, une image dévoilée dans le Valiant spécial FCBD:
Après la conclusion de l’évènement Harbinger Wars en septembre, le scénariste Christos Gage remplacera Duane Swierczynski à la tête de la série Bloodshot qui devient Bloodshot H.A.R.D. Corps. Les véritables origines du héros seront dévoilées dans un numéro #0 à paraitre le même mois.
La série garde la numérotation du titre précédent.
L’éditeur Valiant a dévoilé l’équipe créative de la série Bloodshot H.A.R.D. Corps. Les scénariste Christos Gage (Angel & Faith) et Joshua Dysart (Harbinger) se partageront l’histoire de cette escouade humaine, seule solution à l’escalade méta-humaine qui secoue l’Amérique, tandis que Emanuela Lupacchino (X-Factor) s’occupe de la partie graphique.
Ci-dessous, les couvertures variantes de Bloodshot H.A.R.D. Corps #14 par J.G. Jones et Rafael Grampa:
[quote=« Christos Gage »]I think what they bring to it, is that so far we’ve seen Psy-Ops, we’ve seen Shadow Man, we’ve seen people with different types of powers, and H.A.R.D. Corps is the human response to that. It’s humanity’s answer to the super powers in the Valiant Universe by giving powers to normal people.
However, they may come with a cost. The normal human body wasn’t meant to handle that.[/quote]
En juillet, toutes les séries de l’éditeur Valiant bénéficieront de cinq pages supplémentaires consacrées à de courtes histoires comiques sur les entretiens passés par les héros pour le poste de chef du H.A.R.D. Corps.
Pour cette tache, le responsable éditorial Jody LeHeup a fait appel au scénariste Jim Zub et au dessinateur Edwin Huang, connu pour leur série de fantasy comique Skullkickers.
[quote]Bloodshot and H.A.R.D. Corps #14
Story by Christos Gage, Joshua Dysart
Art by Emanuela Lupacchino
Colors by Matt Milla
Letters by Simon Bowland
Cover by J.G. Jones
Publisher Valiant Entertainment
Cover Price: $3.99
Release Date Fri, September 18th, 2015
ALL-NEW ARC! ALL-NEW CREATIVE TEAM!
Acclaimed writer Christos Gage (Avengers Academy, Thunderbolts) joins New York Times best-seller Joshua Dysart (Harbinger Wars) and superstar-in-the-making Emanuela Lupacchino (Archer and Armstrong, X-Factor) to light the fuse on an explosive new chapter for Bloodshot and the Valiant Universe’s most feared team of superhuman operatives!
The world’s most deadly soldier has a new assignment. Out of the ashes of Harbinger Wars, Bloodshot is about to join the weaponized men and women of the HARBINGER ACTIVE RESISTANCE DIVISION – the black budget, technologically-augmented strike force where the powers are dangerously unstable and every mission is a one-way ticket into the meat grinder.
With a reluctant leader calling the shots and a new crop of untested rookies manning the frontline, Bloodshot is about to take H.A.R.D. Corps behind enemy lines – and into a gasoline-drenched, synapse-snapping suicide run where no one is safeÖand heroes always die trying.[/quote]
[quote]Bloodshot and the H.A.R.D. Corps #15
Story by Christos Gage, Joshua Dysart
Art by Emanuela Lupacchino
Cover by Emanuela Lupacchino, Matthew Waite
Publisher Valiant Entertainment
Cover Price: $3.99
Release Date Wed, October 16th, 2013
Post-corporate warfare just got a whole lot deadlier.
Trapped in an enemy stronghold, Bloodshot has been broken – dismantled piece-by-piece, nanite-by-nanite by the Harbinger Foundation’s most disturbed minds! But when Bloodshot’s signal goes dark, who can the black ops military contractor known as Rising Spirit bring in to recover its most expensive soldier? Time to call in…H.A.R.D. Corps![/quote]
Durant l’année 2014, l’éditeur Valiant Comics jettera un bref regard en arrière. D’abord en février avec la sortie des numéros spéciaux Archer & Armstrong: Archer #0 et H.A.R.D. Corps #0 qui marquera le début du crossover entre les deux séries mères.
[quote]BLOODSHOT AND H.A.R.D. CORPS: H.A.R.D. CORPS #0
Written by CHRISTOS GAGE & JOSHUA DYSART
Art by CHRISCROSS
Cover by ARTURO LOZZI
Pullbox Exclusive Variant by MIGUEL SEPULVEDA
Variant Cover by LEWIS LAROSA
$3.99/T+/32 pgs.
ON SALE IN FEBRUARY![/quote]
[quote]Bloodshot and H.A.R.D. Corps #16
Story by Christos Gage, Joshua Dysart
Art by Emanuela Lupacchino
Cover by Patrick Zircher, ChrisCross
Publisher Valiant Entertainment
Cover Price: $3.99
Release Date Wed, November 20th, 2013
Valiant is proud to present an advance preview of Bloodshot and H.A.R.D. Corps #16 from the all-star creative team of co-writers Christos Gage (Superior Spider-Man) and Joshua Dysart (Harbinger Wars) and artist Emanuela Lupacchino (X-Factor)!
H.A.R.D. Corps has just experienced its first fatality, Bloodshot is severely weakened, and the new rookies are a mess. It would be suicide to take on Toyo Harada and the combined might of the Harbinger Foundation now…so that’s exactly what Bloodshot and his new team of paramilitary superhumans are going to do.[/quote]
[quote]Bloodshot and H.A.R.D. Corps #18
Story by Christos Gage, Joshua Dysart
Art by Bart Sears
Cover by Clayton Crain, Lewis Larosa, Cully Hamner
Publisher Valiant Entertainment
Cover Price: $3.99
Release Date Wed, January 8th, 2014
Valiant is proud to present an advance preview of Bloodshot and H.A.R.D. Corps #18 – the FIRST ISSUE of « GET SOME, » an all-new story arc featuring the return of comics icon and legendary artist Bart Sears (X-O Manowar) to the Valiant Universe! Co-written by Christos Gage (Superior Spider-Man) and Joshua Dysart (Harbinger Wars), start reading here as Valiant’s most relentless men of war go guns blazing into a helicopter-smashing, bicep-bursting melee in the heart of the Sahara Desert!
With a valuable oil pipeline in dire peril, Bloodshot and the expendable commandos of H.A.R.D. Corps are headed to Africa to bring down a network of terrorist saboteurs. But as Bloodshot digs into the multinational oil conglomerate he’s been brought in to protect, he’ll soon find himself confronted by the complex truth behind the terror – and face-to-face with an older, scrappier, more grizzled generation of superhuman soldier from the glory days of proxy wars and state-sponsored assassination.[/quote]
C’était surtout pour le style graphique des pages que je disais cela. J’avais pas vu le nom du dessinateur, mais si c’est Sears, ça m’étonne moi du coup ! (traumatisé par Cap & Faucon j’ai été)
[quote]Bloodshot and H.A.R.D. Corps #0
Story by Christos Gage, Joshua Dysart
Art by Valentine De Landro, ChrisCross, Joseph Cooper
Cover by Arturo Lozzi, Miguel Sepulveda, Lewis Larosa
Publisher Valiant Entertainment
Cover Price: $3.99
Release Date Wed, February 26th, 2014
Valiant is proud to present an advance preview of Bloodshot and H.A.R.D. Corps: H.A.R.D. Corps #0 – an all-new, standalone introduction to Bloodshot and H.A.R.D. Corps, living weapons of the 80s, 90s and today!
Start reading here on February 26th as acclaimed writers Christos Gage (Superior Spider-Man) and Joshua Dysart (Harbinger Wars) partner up with an all-star cast of artistic talents to reveal the never-before-told origins of Bloodshot’s brothers-in-arms…and declassify three decades worth of the H.A.R.D. Corps’ unsanctioned super-powered incursions into war zones across the globe. But, in the era of analog, Bloodshot and H.A.R.D. Corps’ cutting-edge enhancements are far from perfect and bugs are bound to pop up in the wetware with…disastrous results…
Don’t miss this unshakeable new entry point into the biggest action book on the stands when Valiant unleashes Bloodshot and H.A.R.D. Corps: H.A.R.D. Corps #0 on February 26th! And look for more jumping-on points for each of Valiant’s most acclaimed monthly series in February and March with Archer & Armstrong: Archer #0, Quantum and Woody: The Goat #0, and Harbinger: Bleeding Monk #0![/quote]
