X-O Manowar Vol. 4: Homecoming

Aric has returned to earth after liberating the rest of the human slaves from Loam in the Planet Death storyline.  They have landed right in the middle of Eastern Europe where Dacia used to exist. Tensions are building throughout this book as this event is the inciting incident that sets up the new team book Unity.  The biggest reveal in this book is that Gilad the Eternal Warrior was there with Aric in the very beginning when the Visigoths were facing off against the Romans & there little exchange in the museum is very cool.  It just goes to show how compact & shared the Valiant Universe is.  Up to this point in the Valiant Universe X-O Manwar has now faced off with both Ninjak & the Eternal Warrior.  While the other books have also crossed over a little Archer & Armstrong crossing over with the Eternal Warrior & soon Bloodshot; meanwhile Harbinger has only crossed over with Bloodshot but will soon be connected to everything else through Unity.

DC Universe: Rebirth Deluxe Ed.

All hail Geoff Johns he is without a doubt the greatest writer DC Comics has at their disposal.  It is a shame that he doesn't have time to write more comics I hope that with all of the executive power DC has been throwing his way he is able to bring the DC Universe out of the dark ages that was the New 52.  This is an amazing one-shot that has been given the deluxe hardcover treatment.  It brings back the love & hope that has been missing since the inception of the New 52 it also seeds some of the things to come during the Rebirth initiative.  Like many of the DC Comics events over the last thirty years a speedster is at the center of the story.  This event is the sequel to Flashpoint like Infinite Crisis is the sequel to Crisis on Infinite Earths.  Wally West is the main character of the event trying to find a way to come back out of the speed force & warn everyone about what has happened.  Wally doesn't know who is responsible for what has happened but that whoever it is exist outside of time & is more powerful than any villain the heroes have ever faced.  There are lots of hints that Dr. Manhattan of the Minutemen in Watchmen is behind this theft of ten years.  Time will tell who the villain really is from this event.  But one thing is for certain that the Post-Crisis Pre-New 52 DC Universe is back.

Harbinger Vol. 4: Perfect Day

The fourth volume of Harbinger follows what happens to the group after the Harbinger Wars event. The Harbinger kids have been captured by Toyo Harada along with the Generation Zero kids from Project Rising Spirit.  Monica Jim plays a pretty central role in this volume as one of the P.R.S. kids her unique power is amazing & hopefully will set up some cool stuff in the future.  From the beginning of this book we think that Peter & the gang are all out in L.A. relaxing & laying low after the events that took place in Las Vegas but everything is not what it seems.  Everybody is a prisoner of the Harbinger Foundation & put in a dream like state.  There are some great character moments in this book between Charlene, Kris, Torkelson & Faith.  Kris however steals the show because she is the first to kind of figure out that something is wrong.  Animalia aka Monica has her little creations break her out of the dream.  There is a nice coyote road runner adventure that she goes on which was a great laugh in the way it was executed.  In this book Toyo Harada comes close to death through his own pride & arrogance.  I am looking forward to where this goes next but one thing is for sure the Harbinger kids are ready for some payback.