Retro-Stuffed: Valiant's 1992 "Harbinger" #0-7

[CBR News]

In CBR's inaugural edition of Retro-Stuffed, Andy Liegl heads back in time to Valiant's first universe, focusing on Jim Shooter and David Lapham's super-powered teens on the run in "Harbinger."


Full article here.

[CSPDX]

Cool idea for a series, and not bad for the first article. Looking forward to future installments.

[BugsySig]

If anyone is interested, pick up the 2008 (?) hardcover collection of Harbinger #0-7 "Harbinger: The Beginning". It's awesome and even includes a brand new story from Jim Shooter.

[MichaelPaytonMZ]

I've actually been re-reading this series, along with the other pre-Unity Valiants. The material holds up better than the article suggests. This team gets compared to the X-Men a lot, for obvious reasons. Compare this early run to almost any X-Men run from this era. Harbinger holds up remarkably well, despite the stereotypes, because we see that they are only the surface of the characters. Like any stereotype, when you look deeper at the individual you'll see a real person. Shooter manages to delve deeper into each of these kids and we're left with a group of teens that feel very much like real people reacting to the situations presented. No one acts like a superhero or supervillain here. Even the "good guys" are deeply flawed individuals who the reader can find themselves relating to.

I know that Hollywood has wanted to make a movie out of Harbinger. Reading the series again actually made me wish for a TV series.

[zskywalker]

I just realized how closely Harbinger was to the TV series "Heroes"!