Every so often, comic book publishers send out previews of upcoming comics without any of the lettering finished. The result, while pretty to look at, leaves readers wondering just what the hell is going on in those pages. Well, wonder no more.

Here at Bleeding Cool, we have combined decades of experience in reading comic books, so we can tell what's happening, even without the words. Using that knowledge, we've lettered these previews ourselves, using our best guess at what the dialog should actually be. We can't guarantee 100% accuracy- in fact, our accuracy may be much lower than that – but we can guarantee that it's better than looking at a bunch of unfinished pages.

In this issue of Improbable Previews, we look inside Valiant's X-O Manowar Free Comic Book Day special. The book will contain two stories, however, and the one we're looking at is Bloodshot Salvation, promoting Valiant's top secret new series that will introduce a brand new character, by Jeff Lemire and Juan Jose Ryp. What's going on in this one? We have to admit, it was a little confusing, but we did our best…