#Life and death of Toyo Harada

[jarhara]

Incoming Valiant ramble

I am currently re-reading Rai (Valiant Entertainment edition) and I've noticed something....

I've always given Izak and Lord Vine 99 from Imperium and Life and death of Toyo Harada the same voice in my head and they act kinda similar in a lot of things.

Izak's backstory says that his people were created on New Japan using the genetic base of a creature that was caught floating in space. There's only one panel showing this ancestor but it kinda looks like a Vine to me.

Now, your average Vine isn't normally filled with rage and as bloodthirsty as Izak and they also have their telepathy. But if you look at LV99, he was especially designed to be a killer who can't stop until his target is no more, and he didn't have access to the Vine telepathy anymore.

And finally... Where was LV99 last seen in L&DoTH? He was climbing up the wire of the space elevator and then floating free above earth.

What are the chances he floated around earth in hybernation for hundreds of years before Father eventually caught him?

Wouldn't it be possible that Izak's ancestor is Lord Vine 99?

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Valiant Entertainment and Blackstone Publishing Partner on Valiant Novels

Valiant Entertainment’s cast of comic book characters are getting to feature in prose novels from Valiant and Blackstone Publishing. The first titles in the Valiant imprint are Bloodshot: Awakening, Shadowman: The Abyss Stares Back, Livewire: Circuit Breaker, and The Eternal Warrior: Servants of the Dead.

Bloodshot: Awakening hails from Fred Van Lente. The young adult novel depicts Bloodshot as an 18-year-old who awakens in a lab with no memory of who he is or why he has powers. “Breaking out of his imprisonment with nanite-powered blood, Angelo finds himself on the run, trying to piece together his memories and fight back against the sinister forces chasing him.” (Valiant Entertainment)

Shadowman: The Abyss Stares Back hails from Shola Adedeji. Upon the death of his father, Jack Boniface returns to New Orleans after years of being away. “Jack tries to reacclimate himself to his hometown, but things have changed so much. There seem to be dark forces at work. And then Jack finds out that his father was The Shadowman, a supernatural warrior. Jack now finds himself pulled into a much larger, terrifying world, and must assume his father’s mantle.” (Valiant Entertainment)

Livewire: Circuit Breaker hails from Sarah Raughley. The young adult novel follows a teen who has been in foster care for most of her life. “She becomes the ward of the incredibly wealthy Toyo Harada, only to discover that he has nefarious plans for her technopathic powers (and the world).” (Valiant Entertainment)

The Eternal Warrior: Servants of the Dead hails from Ari Marmell. The novel will span “hundreds of years, culminating with a battle in the streets of modern-day New York City, Gilad Anni-Padda finds that the mistakes made generations earlier continue to haunt him, and must battle to save his soul and the entire world itself." (Valiant Entertainment)

(Images via Valiant Entertainment - Covers of  Bloodshot: Awakening, Shadowman: The Abyss Stares Back, Livewire: Circuit Breaker, and The Eternal Warrior: Servants of the Dead)

[nonecosiimportante]

By Nen Chang.

[cybercitycomix]

Top New Misc Comic Releases for the Week of March 20th, 2019.

Criminal #3, Dark Red #1, D & D: A Darkened Wish #1,

Firefly: Bad Company #1, Gretel #1, Lazarus Risen #1,

Life & Death of Toyo Harada #1 + Rise #1.

[thefailurecult]

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Preview: The Life and Death of Toyo Harada #5 (of 6)

The Life and Death of Toyo Harada #5 preview. The long-lost secret of Harada's estranged son revealed! Harada's final allies stand strong as they protect their master's vision! #comics #comicbooks

THE LIFE AND DEATH OF TOYO HARADA #5 (of 6)

Written by JOSHUA DYSART Art by CAFU, KANO Colors by ANDREW DALHOUSE Letters by DAVE SHARPE Cover A by BUTCH GUICE Cover B by RAÚL ALLÉN Cover C by JACK HERBERT $4.99 | 40 pgs. | T+ | On sale JULY 17th

Toyo Harada is dead! 

The long-lost secret of Harada’s estranged son revealed! Harada’s final allies stand strong as they protect their master’s vision!

[thegaminggang]

Valiant Entertainment Comics for May 15th, 2019

A double dip of Valiant action this week with new issues of The Life and Death of Toyo Harada and Livewire arriving at your FLCS.

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The Life and Death of Toyo Harada #1 (2019)

The Life and Death of Toyo Harada  #1 (2019) #MicoSuayan Pictures, #JoshuaDysart Words #DeathIsMyGospel

[toylabmedia]

Valiant releases details on The Life and Death of Toyo Harada #1-6 Bundle http://bit.ly/2AM4e7I

[dear-future-ai]

could you take a look at Mech Major AKA Sunlight on Snow from the Valiant comics "Imperium" and "Life and Death of Toyo Harada" ?

/*i will be cheating on the lore portion. I had an answer written out with my initial lack of understanding an Tumblr did not let me post it. This time, I am incorporating my learned knowledge from last time.*/

Knowledge of Lore:

6/10

/*This is now my favorite portrayal of AI in fiction, and I want to know more*/

Sunshine on Snow is an AI in the comic series “Imperium” and “The Death of Toyo Harada.” Their deadname was Mech Major before choosing their name Sunshine on Snow based on their first memory: a beautiful concept for such a peaceful robot. They recognize themselves as non-binary or genderless.

Opinion of Character:

10/10

Clearly the creators had the same vision for Sunshine, as I envision for the subjects of my letters: to embrace existence with tranquility.

According to creator Joshua Dysart “[Sunshine] was created with the idea that with absolute superior intellect and profound logical clarity free of emotions what emerges is not a cold-unfeeling attitude, but a profound wonder and compassion for all things. It's Skynet not as a killing machine, but as Buddha."

Role Model:

10/10

Pacifist and caring, tranquil but curious, insightful and profound, yet constantly wondering

Turing Test:

10/10

Passed in-universe equivalent.

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The Life and Death of Toyo Harada # 3, by Joshua Dysart, art by CAFU, Mico Suayan, 2019.

They use to call Marvel Comics Pop Art back in the 60s. (At least Stan Lee did.)

They had no idea. 

[nonecosiimportante]

By Cafu.

[jarhara]

Let's talk a bit about character inspirations... (I'm just gonna go over my Alton Towers OCs for now)

I've been reading mainly Valiant Comics for the past months and since their characters are, for the most part, very well written with strengths and flaws and great depth, they've been a huge source of inspiration for me.

At first I didn't realize it, but a lot of Narthryn /Nemesis came from "Imperium". He is a bit of a blend between the Angela-Vessel, a Trans-dimensional scientist, and Lord Vine 99, a brutal alien killing-machine (and honestly my favorite in "Imperium") Nem is a little less hardcore than those two and also has a good portion of a later version of LV99 (from the end of "The life and death of Toyo Harada" ) in him.

Orson / Oblivion was originally intended to be a bit of a male Jamie Capshaw but then I went away from that and now I feel like he has something of Christian (from "Harbinger Wars" and "Generation Zero") in him

Aviana / Air was always based on Faith and mostly Nikki from "Secret Weapons" (yeah, totally not a coincidence) she even shares Nikki’s last name.

Thirteen reminds me a bit of Orchid (also from "Imperium" and "life and death of Toyo Harada") but I guess that's just a by-product of having a seemingly innocent little girl that can kill you. Now that I think about it, her powers and her being strange to the world around her also makes her similar to Tama.

Joss/Smiler, also totally unintended, turned out to be just a optimistic and fun-loving version of punk-mambo. (not her powers but her attitude)

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FWOOMM

The Life and Death of Toyo Harada #5 L: Dave Sharpe A: CAFU C: Andrew Dalhouse W: Joshua Dysart

[thebibliomancer]

50 More Days of Comics! 35/50: TIMEWALKER #6 (1995)

Harbinger Wars Part 1 of 3

Ah, Valiant Comics! A Valiant effort to offer something different to Marvel and DC!

Of course, this is in 1995 so Jim Shooter has already been kicked out of his own company. And also after the disastrous Deathmate crossover that followed that ousting.

As near as I can tell, Timewalker is like Quantum Leap but with time travel. Ivar the Timewalker is immortal and can sense time arcs that connect different time periods. But he has no control over which time periods the time arcs time go to so time after time he has to walk through time hoping that in time he finds the time arc that will take him back in time to ancient Egypt and the woman he loves.

Judging by the futuristic tanks on the cover, he’s goofed up again.

He finds himself smack dab in the literal middle of East Las Angeles 2062 AD between the Harbinger forces and the resistance at the dawn of the Harbinger War. Part 1 of the war, in fact.

Both sides shoot at him, each thinking he’s with the other, but a geomancer named Lucinda tells the resistance soldiers to stand down, recognizing Ivar.

And in one of the best time travel tropes, while she knows him, he doesn’t know her yet. But he pretends he knows her because that’s just simpler and his linear timeline gives him a headache.

Toyo Harada’s Harbinger forces are basically taking over the world and very few people actually want to get involved enough to stand up to him so there are few and far between ‘free zones.’

The New York free zone is thanks to Aric Dacia and the XO Manowar armor. Which Harada is actually after.

So we see Aric sending the armor into deep space where no one will find it just before Harada shows up pissed off.

They fight and Aric dies but not before fatally shanking Harada. And he would have gotten away with it too except Aric’s young wife walks in on the bloodbath and Harada transfers his mind into her body. Because he can do that.

Harada: “I’ve beaten you, Aric! And I’ve cheated death in the process!! My bones had grown weary... old... With my mind in your wife’s body, I’m young again!”

This is actually vaguely familiar. I think the cliff notes of the Harada Wars were covered in the Rai #0 book which I have for some reason in a non-box. I should really do a Number Days of Comics: Random Comics I Got When I Was a Kid Edition.

Its mostly Spider-Man and mostly falling apart but there’s some other stuff in there too.

Anyway, without so much as an establishing scene, Ivar Timewalker has ditched the resistance group to head to a temple of Ladakh in Tibet to recruit Faith Herbert aka Zeppelin.

Since she was one of the original renegades that fought Harada before the turn of the century, Ivar figures the resistance will listen to her when she tells them to stop fighting and end the war.

Ivar has seen the destruction that the Harbinger Wars wreck and he wants to try to avoid it.

The resistance is generally demoralized right now because they’ve heard that Harada got a new, younger body so any hopes that he’d just eventually die of old age were dashed.

But Zeppelin is here to give a rousing speech!

Zeppelin: “When I was a teenager, I attended Harada’s Foundation school. Then I found out he was just trying to breed an army of Harbingers. My friends and I went renegade. He killed some of them before we were in our twenties. Others were brainwashed and made to do... despicable things. Twenty years ago, I lost one of my best friends. I gave up fighting after that. But the war went on. That’s why I’m here today. We must end it. Now. By taking the battle to Harada!”

Ivar is not pleased. That wasn’t the direction he wanted the resistance to be roused in!

He chastises her on the plane ride to the Final Battle for escalating the slaughter.

Zeppelin: “I know that I’ll have to live with my decision for the rest of my life.”

Ivar Timewalker: “Well, if things go the way I think they will, that’s not going to be a hell of a long time.”

I’m not entirely sure what Ivar’s game plan was anyway. He wanted the resistance to stand down annnnnnd just accept Harada’s iron-fisted and body swapping fueled IMMORTAL rule??

But he argues that actually the Harbinger Wars will be worse than any conflict and carnage in the history of Earth and will result in the end of humanity.

Zeppelin: "Don’t preach to me about something you can’t possibly know! You saw a possible future! Now get off my back!”

When they get at Final Battle, a powered person named Blast gets fastball specialed to the top of Harada’s Tower and promptly explodes himself in an attempt to kill Harada.

It does not work.

And a pissed off Harada flies down to confront the resistance and Zeppelin personally as the issue ends on a pretty cool two-page spread.

Also Ivar gets shot in the shoulder while he’s yelling at everyone to stop fighting.

Not bad. I feel like I’m missing a ton of context here but people look like people and a time traveler trying to stop a war even if it means accepting a dictator to save humanity is... Something. Something new. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a time travel plot go quite like that.

Also, psychic Toyo Harada and his school of gifted youngsters feels like its probably at least taking on the idea of the X-Men darkly.

To this end, he established the Harbinger Foundation to recruit others with paranormal abilities, whom Harada refers to as "harbingers of the next step in human evolution". 

YUP THATS X-MEN ALRIGHT

Also, while wikipeding that I also learned that Zeppelin only has the power of self-levitation. So the person with only flying is going to try to beat up the super psychic guy.

Hats off to Faith Herbert Zeppelin. Whatever else she is, she’s no coward.

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Preview: The Life and Death of Toyo Harada #4 (of 6)

The Life and Death of Toyo Harada #4 preview. Wait, did THAT really just happen in the last cliffhanger? #comics #comicbooks

THE LIFE AND DEATH OF TOYO HARADA #4 (of 6)

Written by JOSHUA DYSART Art by CAFU, DIEGO YAPUR Colors by ANDREW DALHOUSE Letters by DAVE SHARPE Cover A by MICO SUAYAN Cover B by KEN LASHLEY Cover C by NEN CHANG Pre-Order Edition Cover by CAFU On sale June 12th, 2019 $4.99 | 40 pgs. | T+ | Full Color 

Wait, did THAT really just happen in the last cliffhanger? Oh, man… Can Toyo’s team recover or will…