Coming up Dec. 10, Valiant Entertainment will launch a new four-issue miniseries The Valiant, co-written by Jeff Lemire and Matt Kindt with art by Paolo Rivera. To mark its upcoming release, Valiant shared layout, penciled, inked and colored samples of the first four pages for the first issue.

A battle ten millennia in the making is about to begin …

An entirely self-contained, new reader friendly comics event spotlighting Bloodshot, Eternal Warrior, Geomancer, and a cast of heroes and villains from across the Valiant Universe...

Enjoy these process pieces from the first four pages of The Valiant #1. Rivera colored and inked all four pages.

11/8/2014 Update: The initial version of this post mistakenly reported that Rivera's father and frequent collaborator, Joe Rivera, inked the final two pages. Rivera contacted ROBOT 6 via Twitter on Nov. 7 to clarify that due to deadline logistics: "I inked all 4 pages in the preview."