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Harbinger Volume 6: Omegas by Joshua Dysart

crookedtreehouse's review

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2.0

By far the most disappointing of the Harbinger collections to this point, Omegas retells the story of Toyo Harada beginning his crusade to take over/help out the world. It also slightly moves the Peter Stancheck portion of the story forward.

Apart from not treading too much new ground, the major problem I had with this story was that Dysart seems to have forgotten the Show Don't Tell philosophy that's crucial to prose but absolutely necessary to graphic novels. There are so many unnecessary narration boxes in this collection that it feels like an early 80s [a:Chris Claremont|15091|Chris Claremont|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1206644417p2/15091.jpg] book.

The Bleeding Monk origin at the back suffered similar problems, in that it's a four page story stretched to twenty-two pages without doing anything visually cool. This isn't the fault of the artists, as each page gives excruciatingly dull details about what should be an interesting story.

This is the only skippable Harbinger collection so far.

invertible_hulk's review

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3.0

3.5 stars for the Harbinger story / -0.5 stars for the Bleeding Monk issue which was a mess of stroytelling and just unneccesary.

invertible_hulk's review against another edition

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3.0

3.5 stars for the Harbinger story / -0.5 stars for the Bleeding Monk issue which was a mess of stroytelling and just unneccesary.
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