3.5 starsGood stuff!Peter and the gang mount a rescue for other kids like themselves, Bloodshot makes an appearance, and you find out more about Harda's origin story.Ok, so this is my first introduction to these characters and I don't feel lost at all. I mean, I'm sure it would add another level of interesting to the story if I already knew something about them, but Valiant has done a marvelous job making this newbie feel welcome.I know it seems like some sort of an X-men rip-off to some of you,...

The X-Men are not in Kansas anymoreActually, and I know this is an obscure reference, but I think one of the reasons I like this series so much is that it makes me think of the 1981 Blue Oyster Cult song “Veteran of the Psychic Wars”.“You see me now a veteran of a thousand psychic warsI've been living on the edge so longWhere the winds of limbo roarAnd I'm young enough to look atAnd far too old to seeAll the scars are on the insideI'm not sure that there's anything left to meDon't let these shak...

Joshua Dysart's characters are so wonderful, and I have become endlessly fond of each and every one of them. The standout issue here is #0, wherein Toyo Harada's activation and youth is explored more deeply, creating a portrait of not only an incredibly deep and sympathetic villain, but probably my favorite character in the new Valiant U. The Harbinger Wars issues are bound together by another narrative of Harada's past, his first large-scale conflict with Project Rising Spirit. The resulting ti...

This volume ties into the Harbinger Wars crossover event. The event itself is quite good, but this volume felt a little disjointed. It shifts between the past and present. The past focuses on the early days of the Harbinger Foundation and Toyo Harada's struggle against the group that would become Project Rising Spirit. This complements the Harbinger Wars event nicely by filling in some gaps about the history of these organizations. The present portion of the story details the Renegades' part of

This review covers Harbinger Wars, as well as the two tie-in volumes for Bloodshot and Harbinger.This story has been percolating for the first year of the Valiant titles, with Bloodshot volume 2 acting as a direct prelude. When two groups of psiot children escape from Project Rising Spirit, Las Vegas becomes a battleground that pits Bloodshot, the Harbinger Foundation, the Renegades, and Project Rising Spirit against each other in one massive throwdown.The story set-up is pretty straight forward...

While my favorite Valiant character is Bloodshot, the Harbingers are right up there. The Harbinger Wars came down to Bloodshot vs Harbingers and this Volume played a key part in the storyline.

This book is more about Harada than Peter... and really, an origin story of the bad guy in the middle of the crossover wasn't necessary

Harbinger Wars is here, but in addition to tying-in with the first major Valiant event this volume manages to show Toyo Harada's past encounters with Project Rising Spirit and gives an extra layer of context and meaning to the big messy Psiot brawl in the pages of Harbinger Wars. The interweaving of this title with the others in the crossover was expertly handled in a way that actually impressed me. Harbinger as a title was only of middling interest to me before but this story showed me more of

Like the other books in this crossover, there is way too much going on. Harada continues to be the most interesting character in the book. The look back into his past was great. Faith is also so much fun to read. The story could have been elongated and fleshed out but I understand why it wasn't. The art by Evans and Hairsine was spectacular. The book, by itself, just has too much to process. The overall crossover is better than the sum of its parts.

I'm looking forward to more character and plot development like we saw in these issues. I like the look into Harada's background and getting more info on the two factions, Harada and PRS is interesting. As always the art isn't for me but I'm resigned to it. I'm excited to see how this whole story shakes out.

What makes Harbinger so unique is that Harada is such an interesting figure for everything to revolve around. He's both Prof X. and Magneto in one and a lot more on top of that. What drives this book is as much Harada's combination of empathy and ruthlessness as anything the Renegades do.

I started The big Valiant event called ''The Harbinger Wars'' with this volume. It was lots of fun to read. Gives you the back ground of The one of the main villains Toyo Harada and shows how much of a good little boy he was and how he became a capitalist business man, the owner of Harada Internatinal to ''save'' the world. (after all there is no other way than becaming a capitalist business man to save the world...-roles eyes-)the book shows you how The Harada Internatinal and Rising Spirit com...

This is more on the 3.5 scale but going to go with 3 because felt the later half wasn't as strong as the first half. I haven't read Harbinger for I believe over a year but was pretty easy getting right back in to it. The group is easy to like and this volume mainly focuses on Toyo. This man has been hunting our main group of Renegades (Their name they made up) and you get to see his past. This also ties in with Valient's crossover Harbinger Wars so it has Bloodshot in it (Whom I not read yet) so...

So I originally gave this 5-stars because I read the whole Harbinger Wars event in a certain order. One issue of Bloodshot’s tie-in, one issue of Harbinger and one issue of Harbinger Wars. Re-reading just this arc of Harbinger, I noticed a few problems.What’s it about?CROSSOVER WITH BLOODSHOT!Peter and his team decide to help some kids who are in danger. Unfortunately that’s all I can say without spoilers. Oh, yeah, there’s also an origin story for Harada.Pros:The story is pretty interesting. Th...

I was fortunate enough to interview the writer, Joshua Dysart, for our youtube channel. Check it out here! https://youtu.be/NVSJLjQqEz8 Be sure to subscribe.Better than the Bloodshot tie in for Harbinger Wars, but still very tie-inish [sic].I love the Toyo Harada backstory parts. He’s a fascinating character and it was nice to see this villain fleshed out more.It adds a lot of context to Harbinger Wars, even if it doesn’t stand up great on it’s own.Also, I LOVE FAITH.

This 3rd volume lost its way a little and become a little confusing, jumping back into the past and the present day. The introduction of bloodshot was underwhelming and I'm unsure if the plot moving forward after this one, still very much on board though.

This title has gotten a bit crowded. The best part of this book were more focused on Toyo and Peter instead of this whole Harbinger team. Hopefully this title tightens up because its quickly going off the rails from a very promising start.

Find this and many other reviews at Geekritique!Review of Harbinger, Vol. 1: Omega RisingReview of Harbinger, Vol. 2: RenegadesThe adventures of Peter Stanchek, now known by his new title as Sting, and the other Renegades continues into the events of the huge crossover event, Harbinger Wars. Volume 3 of Harbinger serves, not only to continue their story and beef up their personal viewpoint, but also to introduce the parallel storytelling of the first Harbinger War in 1969. Collected in Harbinger...

I seriously cannot put this series down! I am so impressed with this take on superpowers and mutants. The same old song and dance definitely feels fresh while reading this. Again, the background info and flashbacks aren't boring in this volume. They are integrated into the story nicely. A lot more is revealed in this volume in terms of Harada, his background, and his affiliations and plans. We get to meet more psions and I am really liking the variety of powers that we are seeing. Overall, I am

BCDER: 48I read Harbinger Wars first, so I felt like this was the same story just from another point of view. It's not done badly, it just seemed like I had to slog through it because I'd already read the storyline. The 1969 flashback was interesting and I enjoyed Cater's character and role in PRS.