Toyo Harada and Peter Stanchek. Master and apprentice. Creator and destroyer. Alpha and omega. Humanity's most powerful psionic, Pete Stanchek, has been run to ground. His few friends and family are gone. He is loved is by no one. At the nadir of his brief, 18-year existence, he has been drugged, deceived and deluded by a corporate master. But now he's finally had enough. Tonight, the human race will find out exactly how powerful he is. Tonight,...

Charlene Dupre feels like she's been on fire since the day she was born. Too hot to handle, abused and misused, she's turned to a dead-end life on the sleazy side of the New Orleans streets. But when Peter and his strange band of teenagers with wondrous powers walk into the strip club where she works, Charlene discovers the heat that's been burning her up inside is the only thing that can set her free. Meanwhile, Project Rising Spirit closes in on...

ALL-NEW ARC! From out of the ashes - RENEGADES! After a crushing defeat at the hands of his would-be mentor, Peter Stanchek lies critically wounded and the only person who can save him is the person that hates him the most - his childhood love Kris Hathaway. As Harada's Eggbreaker strike force closes in, the helpless Peter wonders if he is going to find forgiveness at Kris's door - or unbridled vengeance. But when Faith returns as the superhero she's...

The Renegades' war against the Harbinger Foundation is about reach its boiling point! Peter Stanchek and his friends are working their way up the Harbinger food chain, and now they've finally caught up with one of Toyo Harada's top men, Walter Sakai. Can they make Sakai turn traitor and divulge the secrets of Harada's next shocking plan for the Valiant Universe before its too late?

"Friends and Enemies" Meet Screen, the newest harbinger in the Valiant Universe! A troubled youth who can generate force fields, Screen must choose a side in the ensuing battle between Harada and the Harbinger Resistance. As he makes a life-changing decision, Toyo Harada reveals a startling secret that will change the tides in his war with Peter Stanchek. You won't believe who he aligns himself with in this issue's jaw-dropping last page!

"Dream Child" It's a psychological journey into the mind of Kris! As Kris' relationship with Peter Stanchek sours, she experiences a string of mysterious dreams. What do these visions means for Kris and how will they affect her in reality? Also, Toyo Harada has startling news for one of his students!

"Hard Boiled" It's training day at the Harbinger Foundation! As Stronghold struggles to control his powers, Twenty-Twenty keeps mental tabs on certain members of the team. But what happens when this rogue harbinger pushes his mind-scans too far?

Peter Stanchek's home has been burned to the ground! And, meanwhile, secret attackers are taking down his friends one by one. But as Peter begins a frantic manhunt to apprehend those responsible, will he be walking right into a death trap set by none other than Toyo Harada?

"Iranian Ligachts" Trapped. Isolated. Defeated. Peter Stanchek lies broken in the dungeons of Kaliph's Iranian fortress without any of hope of escape. It's up to his allies and new recruit Screen to mount a rescue, but with each moment they waste, the more Kaliph breaks Peter's spirit. The race is on to save the resistance's most powerful member!

Wracked with a terrible sickness after escaping the Kaliph's dungeon, Peter is tormented with frightful dreams of his father. Are the family secrets he's sought imprisoned somewhere within his own mind or will the past continue to haunt him forever?