Harbinger: Origin of Harada

Origin of Harada: Failsafe
Publisher	Valiant Entertainment
Publication
Volume	Harbinger: The Beginning
Date	August, 2007

No. There must be a control. When you stop believing in me...end it.

-- Toyo Harada

Solicitation

(taken from the back of the dust cover of Harbinger: The Beginning)

An all-new eight page "Origin of Harada" story by Jim Shooter and original Valiant creator Bob Hall (Shadowman) fearuring the first appearance of a new key Valiant character.

Origin of Harada: Failsafe

Appearances

Featured Characters:

• Toyo Harada (Flashback and main story)

Supporting Characters:

• Madame Rowena (Fortune teller) (Single appearance) (Flashback and main story)
• Noriko Harada (Harada's wife) (Single appearance)

Villains:

• Harada's parents (who hate their son; die off-screen) (Flashback only)

Other Characters:

• Doctor Leakey (Mentioned only)
• Eve (Mentioned only)
• Harbinger Foundation
  • Board of Executives (Flashback & inside cover)
  • Eggbreakers (Mentioned only)
• Renegades (Mentioned only)
  • Torque (Deceased) (Mentioned only)
• Lucy (Mentioned only)

Locations:

• California
  • Berkeley
  • Golden Gate Bridge
  • Oakland
    • Piedmont Pines
• China
  • Beijing
    • 1989 Tiananmen Square protests (Flashback only)
• Historical events (Mentioned only)
  • Apartheid
  • Cuban Missile Crisis
    • Bay of Pigs Invasion
  • Fall of the Berlin Wall
  • Mideast mess
  • Vietnam War
• Texas
  • Dallas (assumed)
    • Harbinger Foundation

Items:

• Crystal ball
• Globe
  • Africa
  • Sahara
  • Saudi Arabia
  • South Atlantic Ocean
• Knife
• Teddy bear

Vehicles:

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Credits

• Writers: Jim Shooter
• Pencilers: Bob Hall
• Inkers: Joe Rubinstein
• Digital Colorists: Rob Ruffolo (Conceptopolis LLC)
• Letterers: Chris Eliopoulos
• Cover Artists: Bob Hall, Bob Almond
• Editors: Dinesh Shamdasani

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Notes

• The story has only been published in Harbinger: The Beginning thus far. It is the first original material ever published by Valiant Entertainment.
• The story states that Toyo Harada was born in Oakland, California in 1951 to Japanese immigrants.
• Joe Rubinstein is credited as Joe Rubenstein.

Quotes

I read the kid's mind... I don't know how, but my messing around in his mind opened ip his power! I realized he was like me, but...far greater. It scared me. We're different. A new kind of people. I think I was the first of us, you know, like that "Lucy" doctor Leakey discovered, who was the "Eve" for all you regular people...?

-- Madame Rowena

I...still believe in you. But you know I can't stand the deaths...the suffering. You could just wipe away my doubts. And Rowena's knowledge of them...

-- Noriko Harada

No. There must be a control. When you stop believing in me...end it. As for the old woman--who would listen to a fortuneteller?

-- Toyo Harada

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