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Sneak peek: Valiant Comics’ Secret Weapons: Owen’s Story #0

Get a look at the forthcoming ‘zero issue’ of Secret Weapons. It’s a tale that features one of the most interesting members of the heroic team in Owen’s Story.

Secret Weapons was a story that hit from Valiant Comics last year, spun out of Harbinger. The miniseries didn’t hit home with me for some reason, but was a hit with fans. Featuring a team of heroes that don’t quite have the greatest superpowers, Secret Weapons has now spawned a ‘zero issue’.

But instead of centering on the team itself, thrown against some major threat, Owen’s Story instead tells the tale of Owen Cho. He’s a… well he’s not really a superhero, to put it plainly. In fact, his powers are more than a little useless (even though they’re kinda cool).

And that’s a gimmick that can make for a compelling story.

Owen’s Story

Owen Cho is a conjurer, which can be a great deal more frustrating than it sounds. You see, Owen’s “psiot” ability – unlocked at great expense and even greater danger by Toyo Harada’s Harbinger Foundation – allows him to materialize objects out of thin air, but he can’t control what to summon or when it might arrive. Worse yet, his gift has landed him in a heap of trouble over the years… Namely, it got him locked away in The Willows – an off-the-grid facility for abstruse superhumans like himself – before Livewire and her team of like-minded “secret weapons” gave him a path with purpose…

But what do you do with a heap of undesirable objects summoned from parts unknown, anyway? Have a garage sale, of course! From the minds of SECRET WEAPONS’ all-star creative team, discover the significance behind the otherwise ordinary trinkets, toys, and gadgets conjured by Owen’s otherworldly ability across a series of lavishly illustrated double-page spreads and short stories specific to each object that weave together to form one cohesive narrative…and one of the year’s most innovative single issues.

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Jason's been knee deep in videogames since he was but a lad. Cutting his teeth on the pixely glory that was the Atari 2600, he's been hack'n'slashing and shoot'em'uping ever since. Mainly an FPS and action guy, Jason enjoys the occasional well crafted title from every genre.

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