wow, what a reduction in quality of writing in this volume. Dunno what happened.

Another fantastic volume! This series is so addicting. This is honestly one of the best trade paperbacks that I have read in a while. I love the premise for this story. The characters are great and the execution of the plot is brilliant.

I got seriously worried what had happened to this series in the first two issues, I thought to myself, man, this can't be right. So I stuck with it and it ended up being just as enjoyable as the other volumes. This one is really out there.

Following the "Harbinger Wars," where the Renegades got their heads handed to them by, oh, everybody, Peter Stanchek, Kris, Faith, Flamingo, and Torque decide to take a vacation and are having by all appearances a perfect day...or so it seems. Kris, for one, is bothered by what she's seeing and what she's seeing is a pleasant beach and a good time with her friends.How did the Renegades get this far from Vegas anyway?A nice twist that potentially puts an end to the ongoing conflict between Peter

Perfect Day didn't impress me much until the end. And even then, it wasn't as good as the previous volumes due to the somewhat confusing way the story was told.I can't say much with spoiling this one, but if you're a fan of this title, you really need to hang on till it's over. The beginning is slow and draggy and then sort of meanders into this crazy fever dream. (view spoiler)[Which is basically exactly what it is because Harda has our plucky band of heroes trapped in a dream state. So. (hide

Harbinger has been a pretty fun series to read. I thought 2 was by far the strongest volume with 1 and 3 being solid but not as good. So how's this one? Well we have the Renegades, those are the good guys, on the run from the evil Toyo Harada. Well kind of, because if read Harbinger War you're like how the fuck did they get here? It opens so nicely, where everyone has the "perfect" day just chilling and having a blast. Then shit gets really really fucking dark at the last page and opens up a who...

A little disappointing, honestly.After the events of the Harbinger Wars, the Renegades are captured by Toyo Harada (again) and placed into their own perfect realities. You'd think that'd give us some really introspective stories, but instead most of it is set inside Torque's giant Metallica concert heaven, and the other characters spend most of their time scrabbling around trying to fix it. The things going on outside of the perfect days are much more interesting, as Harada continues to spiral t...

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.Craziest Harbinger collection yet!!!This one keeps you off kilter for a while, but it all pays off and ends up being one of the weirdest and most exciting ones yet.Kickass art, wild reveals, and ends leaving you wanting more. I’m all in for Dysart’s Harbinger!

Solidly written familiar story.World: The art was fine, the emotions are good and the detail is what's expected of Valiant. The world building is solid and serves the story well. This is a very self contained story and the little snippets of the world that we see that inform the characters were good.Story: Very expected and familiar, if you've read comic books than this story is nothing new. If like me you've been a DC kid all your life this is a Black Mercy story. The pieces are done well the p...

Kind of hard to come off a big rush like Harbinger Wars I guess but I found this arc very interesting in its own way. Always fun to spend a little time in Torquehalla!

Checklist of AWESOME!!Check - A reference to Lou Reed’s 1972 song “Perfect Day”Check - homage to Grant Morrison’s Animal Man “Coyote Gospel”Check – Dungeons & Dragons referenceCheck – Ozzie!We already knew this was a very special series, at this point writer Joshua Dysart is just showing off.This edition, collecting single issues #15-19 focuses more on the psychic aspects of the story and was really cool. We get to now Toyo Harada a little better as well as Torque and Kris.Good times and I’m on

Finf this and many other reviews over at Geekritique!What Valiant's done with this book is truly amazing. Don't get me wrong, Valiant puts their stamp on each trade paperback I've gotten my hands on. Each has felt very unique. But with Perfect Day, I think I've just read one of the best mini-arcs in a long while. Because not only did it serve to mark a unique chapter in the lives of these 5 Renegade heroes, it was a story that could only happen to them. It misled me to the wrong conclusions at f...

One. of the most fascinating and ballsy arcs I've ever read in a superhero comic! Not only was its reveal completely unexpected and exciting, but it proved to also be a much needed exploration and development of each of our characters. And Harada’s mind squall was epic! Loved this. Read and reviewed as part of Harbinger: Deluxe Edition 2

The story got better issue by issue but Valiant needs to give Clayton Henry a totally exclusive contract because every issue he draws is the best in every book he touches. Not the best entry in the Harbinger series but not horrible.

There's a lot going on here. At times an homage to X-men, Animal Man and Farscape, Dysart mixes it up in a delightful way to keep the characters fresh and the plot moving along. Animalia and Samurai Sue are just pure genius.A lot of creative teams would take on something as ambitious as head-fake within a head-fake of Perfect Day's central conceit and struggle to bring it to fruition. This was pure genius though and I really hope we see way more of Animalia and more PoC characters in the book go...

I might have dropped this book within the first two issues had I been reading it monthly. This volume opens with underwhelming art and a cornball story that really made me question the quality of the title. Little did I know, the two-issue faux pas was a clever setup for what turned out to be an exciting and interesting arc. The execution could have been better, but it works out in the end. This volume explores Torquehalla, revisits my favorite character from Generation Zero, Animala, and even m...

It had to happen sometime. Harbinger finally had a dud volume. Realtalk, if this were a TV show, this season would have been the Jump The Shark arc that saw the series moved to the Friday night death slot. I only finished it because I've had Faith vol 1 staring at me for months now, and I promised myself I'd get through vol 5 of Harbinger before starting it. Jeez. Funny enough: as much as this arc tried to focus on Torque, the bit where (view spoiler)[Faith kisses the Fake Peter because, as she

This is Valiant-version of House of M, Harbinger looked already a lot like the X-Men but this is too much. Result is not bad, pretty good actually, just not original

After the dissapointing Harbinger War, this volume was surprisingly good. The fantasy realm was great and looked awesome, and the artwas good throughout.

Joshua Dysart does a very good job of tricking readers and characters alike. The story progresses nicely from the last volume but the reliance on Toy Harada is still a misstep. Hopefully that changes going forward. I like that the characters seem like teens, which most teenage characters don’t. Torque is an obvious example of that. He’s incredibly dumb but sad. I really enjoyed the art especially in Torquehalla. Dysart now needs to make the book stand on its own and separate itself from the Vali...