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A review by crookedtreehouse
Harbinger Volume 4: Perfect Day by Joshua Dysart
3.0
It's tough to write comics or TV shows based on dreams, where the audience is guessing what's real and what isn't. This dream-based story becomes relatively straight-forward after a couple of issues. It's logical, it helps move the overall story forward after the Harbinger Wars, but the fake universe/dream portion of the story just drains my interest in the characters ever-so-slightly.
This volume is the first of the Harbinger books that feels like it's spinning its wheels, waiting for something else in the Valiant Universe to happen. Yes, it has consequences, possibly massive consequences for the Valiant Universe going forward, but while it's unfolding, the plot was tepid. The only interesting thing being the possible ascendence of Anamalia as a key character, but that's brushed aside as the story swings back to being about Peter.
While this is still a strong and interesting superhero team book, it's not up to the standards of the first three volumes. Still, I'm curious to see what the next evolution of this story is.
This volume is the first of the Harbinger books that feels like it's spinning its wheels, waiting for something else in the Valiant Universe to happen. Yes, it has consequences, possibly massive consequences for the Valiant Universe going forward, but while it's unfolding, the plot was tepid. The only interesting thing being the possible ascendence of Anamalia as a key character, but that's brushed aside as the story swings back to being about Peter.
While this is still a strong and interesting superhero team book, it's not up to the standards of the first three volumes. Still, I'm curious to see what the next evolution of this story is.