From honor to strength

4001 A.D. — Tohru Nakadai is the 42nd Rai, the spirit guardian ofJapan.

Infused with the energy of his ancestors and dedicated to the way of thesamurai, Rai is sworn to the service of Grandmother — the personified,artificial intelligence that governs the island nation of Japan.

For fortygenerations, Grandmother's benevolent dominion has endured, but in the wake ofher sudden disappearance, Rai will become all that stands between his nation andall-out chaos.

As humanist factions war with mechanist loyalist for control ofthe future, the masterless Tohru is about to become the first Rai that mustchoose for himself how best to defend his people, his family, and hishonor. Collecting RAI (1992) #1-8 in a deluxe hardcover formatfor the first time anywhere, revisit the future of the original Valiant Universewith Rai's critically acclaimed, highly sought-after adventures from legendarycreators David Michelinie (Amazing Spider-Man, Iron Man), Joe St.

Pierre(Spider-Man 2099) and Peter Grau (Titans)!