NEVILLE ALCOTT NEVILLE ALCOTT senior intelligence officer at MI6, Neville has served as Ninjak’s A handler, as well as liaison to G.A.T.E. and Unity. ENEMIES: The Shadow Seven, the Immortal Enemy, Livewire KNOWN ALLIES: Ninjak, Bloodshot, X-O Manowar, the Eternal Warrior BASE OF OPERATIONS: MI6 Headquarters, Vauxhall Cross FIRST APPEARANCE: X-O MANOWAR #8 CAPABILITIES: Highly Intelligent; Extensive Intelligence Assets and Training HISTORY: Alcott’s connection Colin King, and even Angelina to Ninjak goes back to the Alcott, was simply gone. superspy’s earliest days in Years later, Colin King, now MI6. Alcott took over as Colin the agent known as Ninjak, King’s handler following the would help put Alcott in place death of his first training in the leadership of MI6 and agent, Angelina Alcott, Alcott would meet the deadly apparently at the hands of superspy for what he believed the acolytes of the Undead to be the first time. Monk. Working with King, In this position, he has the two of them located and played a vital role in respond- planned the infiltration of the ing to superpowered threats Monk’s remote monastery. around the world. When Live- Both men had loved Angelina wire went rogue, Alcott was and both wanted revenge on forced to put his friendship her killers. with Ninjak aside to hunt the When King disappeared, fugitive down. n Alcott followed, but his own encounter with the Undead RECOMMENDED READING: Monk left his memory altered. NINJAK VOL. 2: All recollection of the mission, THE SHADOW WARS TPB THE ALPHA THE ALPHA virtually immortal being with powerful psionic abilities, seemingly bent A on conquest. REAL NAME: Unknown ALIASES: Stormbringer; the Beast ENEMIES: The Brotherhood of Cuth, The Lantern-Eyed Monks, H.A.R.D. Corps BASE OF OPERATIONS: Hainan, People’s Republic of China FIRST APPEARANCE: HARBINGER RENEGADE #6 CAPABILITIES: Telepathy; Telekinesis; Life-Force Absorption; Superhuman Strength; Superhuman Durability; Virtual Immortality HISTORY: In the 11th century, to confront and capture the a child drew the attention of Beast. In the centuries since, the Knights of Cuth for his the imprisoned Beast was apparent superhuman abilities. delivered to the keeping of Reviled as a fierce demon, a monastery of the Lantern- capable of warping the minds Eyed Monks in Hainan. of his enemies,Sample this child In the present day, Alex- file nearly destroyed the armies ander Solomon sought the sent to kill him. creature, now known as “the Years later, in Salerno, Alpha” to bring about open Italy, the Knights of Cuth conflict between humans once again confronted this and psiots. After learning “demon,” but he managed to the Alpha’s location from the escape to Antioch, Turkey, Bleeding Monk, Solomon fed sault, the Alpha seized control RECOMMENDED READING: where he seized a castle. A OMEN false intelligence about of the minds of several H.A.R.D. HARBINGER RENEGADE VOL. 2: protracted siege managed to his own whereabouts, leading Corps team members, forcing MASSACRE TPB pierce the fortifications, allow- them directly to the Alpha’s the survivors to retreat. The ing Sir Gerald of Catalonia prison. Freed by the team’s as- Alpha remains at large. n 1 VALIANT UNIVERSE HANDBOOK 2019 EDITION THE VALIANT UNIVERSE HANDBOOK 2019 EDITION 1 ARCHER & ARMSTRONG Sample file 2 THE VALIANT UNIVERSE HANDBOOK 2019 EDITION now as Armstrong. However, with fellow superhero Faith upon meeting his target, the Herbert, Archer has helped ARCHER & ARMSTRONG. naive young Archer realizes Armstrong tackle his many rmstrong is an immortal hedonist who’s partied and brawled his way he’s not an immortal demon, problems– including going Athrough the last ten millennia. Archer is a naive teenage combat just a drunk and irresponsible spelunking inside his magic savant raised by a malicious secret society to kill Armstrong. Despite that, lout, and that it is his parents satchel for a lost keepsake, they’ve become the best of friends and inseparable partners. who are evil. The two team up fighting a vengeful party god he and work together to stop the forgot was imprisoned inside REAL NAMES: Obadiah Archer and Aram Anni-Padda Archers from reassembling and said satchel, encountering an ALIASES: Prodigal (Archer); He Who Is Not To Be Named (Armstrong) reactivating the Boon. They entire circus spliced with his ENEMIES: The Sect; Nauka Traveling Circus; Bacchus; The Lizard King; succeed, but not soon enough DNA, and reconnecting with General Redacted to stop Archer’s parents from Armstrong’s immortal wife KNOWN ALLIES: Mary-Maria Archer; Andromeda; Gub Gub; Eternal Warrior; briefly activating the device, ac- (whom he also forgot about). n Ivar, Timewalker; Faith Herbert; Quantum and Woody cidentally killing the Geomancer BASE OF OPERATIONS: Mobile and themselves, as the Boon RECOMMENDED READING: FIRST APPEARANCE: ARCHER & ARMSTRONG #1 siphons off their life force and A&A: THE ADVENTURES OF CAPABILITIES: Archer – Master Martial Artist, Marksmanship, Instantaneous infuses it into Archer’s beloved ARCHER & ARMSTRONG VOL. 1: Skill Recall; Armstrong – Super Strength, Regenerative Healing, Immortality. sister, Mary-Maria. IN THE BAG TPB The accidental death of the HISTORY: Archer and that destroys the city, siphon- Geomancer leads to a con- Armstrong are an adven- ing off the life force of count- frontation and then a team-up turing duo who often find less people and channeling with Armstrong’s brother Gilad, themselves battling the Sect, it into the nearby Armstrong. the Eternal Warrior. The three an evil coalition of secret soci- Since then, Armstrong has work together to find the new eties. From fighting dinosaurs wandered the Earth, Geomancer and stop the and flying saucers to dealing coming afoul again reality-destroying with a city-wide frat party, and again of the DID YOU machinations of these two traveling trouble- conspiratorial KNOW… the Null. Since makers have proven that Sect, which then, they’ve Armstrong has – even if they don’t always aims to steal traveled back to collected a bottle of see eye to eye – no force can the secret of the Faraway to wine for every year he stand in their way so long as endless life from free Armstrong’s has been alive. they stick together. the freewheeling other brother Ivar; Born in the ancient city of immortal. been caught up in Ur, Armstrong is one of three In the modern day, the middle of a Sect Civil brothers and mighty champi- Congresswoman Thelma and War, with Archer managing ons of the ancient civilization. Reverend Joseph Archer – to take control of most of the On their greatest adventure, secret leaders of the Dominion organization (though he’d later the Anni-Paddas travel to the branch of the Sect – abduct a disband the part under his mysterious Faraway to retrieve gifted young child and adopt control); and have even gone a mystic device known as him into their large family. looking for Archer’s biological the Boon, but the youngest of Renamed Obadiah Archer, the parents in Hollywood inside the them, Gilad, dies in the attempt. young man spends his youth lair of the Lizard King, leader of On their return, the eldest, training alongside his 21 foster the celebrity-abducting Church Ivar, activates the Boon in an siblings to kill the Dominion’s of Retrology. attempt to return Gilad to life. ultimate enemy: He Who Is Not Most recently, in addition to What follows is a cataclysm to Be Named, better known beginning a budding romance FRIENDSSample AND FOES file GUB GUB CONGRESSWOMAN AND ANDROMEDA BACCHUS MARY-MARIA ARCHER HIDEOUS REVEREND ARCHER ARMSTRONG’S IMMORTAL GREEK ARCHER’S SCIENCE EXPERIMENT ARCHER’S ESTRANGED WIFE PARTY “GOD” ADOPTIVE SISTER A once ordinary man ADOPTIVE PARENTS A 6,000-year-old immortal Armstrong’s greatest A master assassin and genetically spliced with One-time leaders of the Greek “goddess.” nemesis he forgot inside his leader of the Sisters of Armstrong’s DNA. Dominion. Their spirits were endless magic satchel for Perpetual Darkness. imbued into Mary-Maria by 3,000 years. the activation of the Boon. THE VALIANT UNIVERSE HANDBOOK 2019 EDITION 3 ARMOR HUNTERS HISTORY: The Armor Hunters squads of hunters traversed with Unity when they are an elite fighting force of the universe purging planets came to Earth to destroy aliens recruited to combat infected by the X-O armors. the armor wielded by the growing menace repre- The Hunters’ main force even- Aric of Dacia. n sented by the spread of the tually fell to the combined sentient X-O Manowar armors onslaught of their quarry. The RECOMMENDED throughout the universe. last surviving team, led by READING: Based on the planet Gennin, Primary Reebo, fell in combat ARMOR HUNTERS TPB TEAM MEMBERS PRIMARY REEBO QUARTZ HELIX LILT MERCENARY ZEALOT MINERALOID ALIEN LIVING ADAPTIVE DATA DRAGON ALIEN Leader of the last Last remaining Able to shift from A winged creature remaining squad of member of a race corporeal to an energy with a corrosive GIN-GR Armor Hunters; killed exterminated by the based form breath; killed by SENTIENT SPACECRAFT by Aric of Dacia. armors; currently a at will; currently a Bloodshot. Recruited from a race of giant self-aware prisoner of G.A.T.E. prisoner of G.A.T.E. robots; currently working with G.A.T.E. ARMORINES ARMORINES n elite military fighting force armed with high-tech armor suits Aoriginally designed by billionaire industrialist Philip Zahn to combat the perceived threat of X-O Manowar. REAL NAMES: Gunnery Sergeant Harold Lewis (Gold Leader); Staff Sergeant Michael Sirot (Number One); James Earl Williams (Number Two); Grissom (Number Three); Antonio Cordova (Number Four) GROUP AFFILIATION: Work under the command of G.A.T.E.