{"id":126309,"date":"2016-04-12T14:18:28","date_gmt":"2016-04-12T18:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comicattack.net\/?p=126309"},"modified":"2016-04-12T14:18:28","modified_gmt":"2016-04-12T18:18:28","slug":"4001admegacover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicattack.net\/4001admegacover\/","title":{"rendered":"Valiant’s ‘Summer of 4001 A.D.’ Event Gets A Huge Interconnecting Mega-Cover!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong><em>Summer of 4001 A.D.<\/em><\/strong> is almost here and Valiant is showing off their\u00a0interconnecting MEGA-COVER of all twelve issues of the upcoming event!\u00a0With each chapter from <em>Summer of 4001\u00a0A.D.<\/em> there will be a limited edition variant cover available that will form a four-foot by\u00a0two-and-a-half\u00a0foot mega cover when completed. The event begins May 4th from the creative team of Matt Kindt, Clayton\u00a0Crain, and David Mack\u00a0and runs through August 2016! The mega-cover features such Valiant heroes as Rai, Geomancer, X-O Manowar, Bloodshot and more fighting against the ruler of New Japan, Father!<\/p>\n<p>[divider]<\/p>\n<p><em>Each chapter of \u201cTHE SUMMER OF THE 4001 A.D.\u201d is designed for maximum accessibility and can be read in concert with the core 4001 A.D. series or stand on its own for a centuries-spanning vision of the future.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>One hundred years from today, Father \u2013 the benevolent artificial intelligence that governs the island nation of Japan \u2013 will gain sentience. To defend its borders, Father will take drastic action by launching Japan into space\u2026where its people can thrive in isolation, away from the overpopulated and resource-deprived planet below. Over the centuries, as New Japan orbits our increasingly unstable world, it will become a model society \u2013 one built on peace, prosperity\u2026and Father\u2019s control.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> A thousand years from today, Father will create the first Rai, founding a lineage of technologically enhanced heroes engineered to defend New Japan and sworn to protect it from all enemies. For hundreds of years into the future, the Rai will single-handedly enforce New Japan\u2019s justice well\u2026and serve Father without question.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> Now, at the dawn of 4001 A.D., the latest Rai is about to inherit the dark truth behind the origin of his kind\u2026and discover the sinister secret at the heart of Father\u2019s existence. For New Japan to live, Earth must die\u2026and as Rai challenges his former master for the first time in more than a millennium, the lone guardian of New Japan will be cast out of his own Father\u2019s kingdom\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Exiled from the only realm he\u2019s ever known, Rai now walks the ravaged world of 4001 A.D. in search of forgotten heroes like himself\u2026on a mission to collect the last surviving legends of a broken planet\u2026and to forge a rebellion with the power to bring the most advanced civilization in history crashing back down to Earth.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> Earth must rise. Father must fall. Rai! Eternal Warrior! X-O Manowar! Bloodshot! Shadowman! Geomancer! And more! The war for the ultimate fate of humanity begins on <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1617394241\"><span class=\"aQJ\">May 4th<\/span><\/span> in 4001 A.D. #1 (of 4) by superstar creators Matt Kindt, Clayton Crain, and David Mack \u2013 and continues all summer long as \u201cTHE SUMMER OF 4001 A.D.\u201d rages onto all 12 chapters of the 4001 A.D. INTERLOCKING MEGA-COVER by rising star Ryan Lee!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-126310\" src=\"https:\/\/comicattack.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/4001_001_001-666x1024.jpg\" alt=\"4001_001_001\" width=\"500\" height=\"769\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-126311\" src=\"https:\/\/comicattack.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/4001_001_002-666x1024.jpg\" alt=\"4001_001_002\" width=\"500\" height=\"769\" \/>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-126313\" src=\"https:\/\/comicattack.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/4001_001_004-666x1024.jpg\" alt=\"4001_001_004\" width=\"500\" height=\"769\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-126314\" src=\"https:\/\/comicattack.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/4001_001_005-666x1024.jpg\" alt=\"4001_001_005\" width=\"500\" height=\"769\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-126315\" src=\"https:\/\/comicattack.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/4001_001_COVER-A_CRAIN-666x1024.jpg\" alt=\"4001_001_COVER-A_CRAIN\" width=\"500\" height=\"769\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-126316\" src=\"https:\/\/comicattack.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/4001_CHECKLIST-666x1024.jpg\" alt=\"4001_CHECKLIST\" width=\"500\" height=\"769\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-126317 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/comicattack.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/4001_Mega-Cover-494x1024.jpg\" alt=\"4001_Mega-Cover\" width=\"494\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Be sure to get your preorders in and prepare yourself for the <strong><em>Summer of 4001 A.D.<\/em><\/strong> as it all starts May 4th!<\/p>\n<p>[divider]<\/p>\n<p>Infinite Speech<br \/>\ninfinitespeech@comicattack.net<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Summer of 4001 A.D. is almost here and Valiant is showing off their\u00a0interconnecting MEGA-COVER of all twelve issues of the upcoming event!\u00a0With each chapter from Summer of 4001\u00a0A.D. there will be a limited edition variant cover available that will form a four-foot by\u00a0two-and-a-half\u00a0foot mega cover when completed. The event begins May 4th from the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":126318,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[658,10,24,788],"tags":[974,2780,3700,4398,5533,9478,11550,13541,15226,15979],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicattack.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126309"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicattack.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicattack.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicattack.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicattack.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/comicattack.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicattack.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicattack.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicattack.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicattack.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}