On June 6 2012, Valiant Entertainment released the Harbinger #1 QR Voice Variant – the next in Valiant’s line of groundbreaking, QR code-augmented variant covers hitting stores! The Harbinger #1 QR Voice Variant is the Valiant Universe’s first introduction to Toyo Harada – the figurehead of the Harbinger Foundation and would-be mentor to the one psionic with the power to oppose him, Peter Stanchek.
The animated covers look pretty bad-ass, to be honest. It would be nice to see these catch on for a little while, just to see what more can be done within the comics themselves.
Written by New York Times bestselling author Joshua Dysart with art by Harvey Award nominee Khari Evans, Harbinger #1 finds Pete out of work, on the skids, and coming to grips with the fact that he may be a “Harbinger”, a psionic-powered being with the potential to reshape the course of human history. Harada is a wealthy business magnate, a respected philanthropist and the most powerful harbinger of all – or so he thought. As they forge an uneasy alliance, will Harada offer Pete a chance for redemption – or attempt to induct him into a secret network of conspiracy, subversion and control? Pete is about to discover that he’s not alone in the world and, soon, the generation who has nothing will take on the man who has everything.
The covers are impressively illustrated by Jelena Kevic-Djurdjevic, scripted by Joshua Dysart and animated by Neal Adams’s Continuity Studios. In addition to the QR Voice Variant, Harbinger #1 also boasts three other awesome covers. The standard edition by rising star Arturo Lozzi, the Pullbox Exclusive Variant for comic shop subscribers by Mico Suayan, and an incentive variant by Doug Braithwaite.
