Harbinger #20 (Comics) Preview

Usually whistleblowers leak secrets about governments or big business, but what happens when your boss is a super-powered, megalomaniacal tyrant  bent on world conquest? In the latest issue of Harbinger, the world finally learns the truth about Toyo Harada.

A whistleblower named Ax has just unleashed a secret with the potential to change the course of human history – superhumans walk among us…and billionaire philanthropist Toyo Harada may just be the most powerful of them all. As a “psiot” with nearly unlimited telekinetic potential, Harada and his secret Harbinger Foundation have shaped the world from the shadows for more than half a century, using their abilities to secretly control the balance of power. Treason. Conspiracy. Mass murder. Harada’s crimes are too numerous to count…but he won’t be held accountable by the laws of mortal men. Instead, he’s about to seize the opportunity to inflict his agenda on the governments of the world…and his former protege Peter Stanchek will soon become humanity’s only hope of nullifying a tyrant from whom no secret is safe.

Harada has been a busy, busy man between his stints in the Bloodshot/Harbinger crossover, Unity and the Harbinger book’s ongoing story lines. Valiant calls hime their universe’s first supervillain and that’s probably as accurate a statement as you can make about the man.

The all-new Resistance story arc is all about the world finding out just who he is- and also about the official appearance of the Renegades. Peter Stanchek and his group will have the light of the public cast onto them for the first time in the book, right along with Harada- it should be very interesting indeed to see how the occasionally unstable teen handles that… not to mention Harada, who’s fast becoming the Dr. Doom of the Valiant U.

See what happens when psiot takes on psiot on the world stage, when Harbinger 320 hits stands on January 15th.