Britannia - Valiant Hero Universe Origins

Plot

Collects Britannia (2016 Valiant) #1-4, Britannia: We Who Are About to Die (2017 Valiant) #1-4, Britannia: Lost Eagles of Rome (2018 Valiant) #1-4, Britannia: The Great Fire of Rome (2024 Valiant). Cover by Dave Johnson.

Ruled by the Fates. Manipulated by the Gods. Commanded by Caesar. In the year 65 A.D., one's destiny was not his own. At the height of Nero's reign, a veteran of Rome's imperial war machine has been dispatched to the farthest reaches of the colonies to investigate unnatural happenings... In the remote outpost of Britannia, Antonius Axia - the first detective - will become Rome's only hope to reassert control over the empire's most barbaric frontier...and keep the monsters that bridge the line between myth and mystery at bay... Contains the first appearance of Antonius Axia and many other Valiant Universe characters! Comics legend Peter Milligan (Shade the Changing Man) and incendiary artists Juan José Ryp (Frank Miller's RoboCop) and Robert Gill (X-Force) lead a phantasmagorical expedition in the lands between darkness, desire, and destruction.