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VALIANT ANNOUNCES HARBINGER ONGOING
Valiant has announced a June 6 for its second ongoing title, Harbinger.
The series will be written by Joshua Dysart, with art by Khari Evans.
Here's how Valiant describes the book:
"Skipping across America in a desperate attempt to stay ahead of the authorities, Peter Stanchek is learning that he's much more than an out-of-work and on-the-run teenager; he is in fact a psionically-powered 'harbinger' with the potential to change the course of human history. Now, respected philanthropist and fellow psionic Toyo Harada has come to guide Peter out of harm's way and teach his new pupil what it truly means to wield power. But Harada isn't as charitable as he might seem -- and the repercussions of these two superhuman harbingers coming face to face might shatter the very planet he hopes to save."
"The idea of really getting a chance to dig in and build an epic mythology populated by a fully-realized cast of characters, all centered around Jim Shooter and David Lapham's original premise, is super-exhilarating to me," Dysart said. "I've been looking for a book to write that could be dark, weird, trippy, fun, real, unreal, violent and thematically ambitious. All the things I look for in fantastic fiction myself. Harbinger is that book, so I'm pretty damn excited about it."
Added Evans: "From page one, this has book has been a total blast. It's a story that begins with Harada and Peter, but soon escalates to include so much more. Working with this cast has been a lot of fun."
"Peter Stanchek and Toyo Harada come from diametrically opposite places in this world," editor Warren Simons said. "Peter's a broke, disillusioned 18-year-old who sees the American Dream as nothing more than a fiction from another time. Toyo Harada is a self-made billionaire who's watched the promise of the baby boomers disintegrate into self-interest. These two are inexorably linked by their extraordinary powers, but just because they share a bond doesn't mean they share an ideology Their eventual collision is unavoidable."
Arturo Lozzi provides the cover for #1, with variants by Mico Suayan, Doug Braithwaite and Jelena Kevic-Djurdjevic.
