A teen hero pays the ultimate price.
Peter. Kris. Zephyr. Flamingo. Torque. The teens’ ongoing fight with Toyo Harada, superhuman CEO of the Harbinger Foundation takes a deadly turn in April.
Valiant revealed in USA Today that a member of the Renegades is going to die in Death of a Renegade. The upcoming 3-part arc starts in Harbinger #22 by Joshua Dysart and Clayton Henry.
From Valiant:
“United by their unique abilities, five teenage misfits have come together under the leadership of troubled runaway Peter Stanchek – a psionically-powered “harbinger” with the potential to reshape the course of human history. Recruited into the Harbinger Foundation by wealthy business magnate and omega-powered harbinger Toyo Harada, Peter quickly discovered the true purpose of Harada’s secretive superhuman empire – subversion, conspiracy and control on a global scale. Now, with only the rejected recruits of the Renegades to aid him, the one boy to ever challenge Harada’s vise-grip on the future of humanity has been left with no choice to expose his former mentor to the world – then bring the fight to his front door.
“It’s not hyperbole to say that EVERYTHING will change after this,” Joshua Dysart told USA Today. “People say that, but in the past we’ve proven that we mean it. And this time I think people will be very surprised as to what’s going to happen in this book.”
“We’re losing one of our most important characters forever,” said Valiant Executive Editor Warren Simons. “This isn’t a decision we take lightly – there was heated debate about this in all quarters – but it’s a necessary choice, even if it means breaking the hearts of our beloved Harbinger fans.”
Death of a Renegade begins in Harbinger #22 this April. This will be the first major character casualty since Valiant relaunched in 2012. Fans of the original series by Jim Shooter and Dave Lapham may remember Torque was killed off in issue six on the 1992 series run.
No official word on who dies but the story is tied to Toyo Harada’s “outing” as a superhuman according to today’s story.
Below are new images from Harbinger #21.
By Editor