Great Pacific Volume 3: Big Game Hunters

Great Pacific #3

by Joe Harris, Martín Morazzo (Illustrations)

Adventure junkies, come to New Texas and seek your fortune on its plastic shores! The sci-fi saga of a young man's quest to turn an island of trash into sovereign land continues, as the settlers grapple with confounding new threats including addiction, mysterious and cruel interlopers, and all-out civil war.

Collects GREAT PACIFIC #13-18.

Genres: Graphic Novels, Comics, Science Fiction

152 pages, Paperback

First published September 9, 2014

About the author

JOE HARRIS is the co-creator and writer of original comics and graphic novels such as the Image Comics rock ‘n’ roll thrill ride, Rockstars, and the environmental sci-fi epics, Great Pacific and Snowfall; along with the supernatural thrillers, Ghost Projekt and Spontaneous, and the children’s fantasy, Wars In Toyland, for Oni Press. In 2013, Joe began a long stint writing the officially-licensed continuation of the paranormal investigations of Agents Mulder and Scully in The X-Files comics at IDW to the enjoyment of fans around the world. The X-Files: Cold Cases—the best-selling audio dramatization of Joe’s comics scripts featuring the voices of David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson and the entire original X-Files cast—and the follow-up, The X-Files: Stolen Lives were released by Audible beginning in 2017.

As a young creator at Marvel Comics, Joe launched the cult-classic Spider-Man spinoff, Slingers and the Bishop: The Last X-Man series. He has written for just about all major comics publishers including DC Comics, Marvel, Image, IDW, Dark Horse, Valiant, BOOM! and others.

A horror screenwriter and filmmaker, Harris conceived and co-wrote Darkness Falls for Sony Pictures—after his short film, Tooth Fairy was acquired by Revolution Studios and he was hired to develop it into a feature—along with the politically farcical slasher movie, The Tripper for FOX. In 2018, he co-wrote the live-action web series, Ninjak vs. the Valiant Universe for Valiant Entertainment.

His latest project is Surviving Nuclear Attack, a paranoid sci-fi thriller, set to launch in 2019 as part of John Carpenter’s Tales of Science Fiction from Storm King Comics.

Reviews

[Chad · Rating 3 out of 5]

This series was pretty great until it wasn't. It feels like Harris got the cancellation notice two issues in and decided to burn it all to the ground. A not at all satisfying end to this series.

[Dan · Rating 3 out of 5]

This once great series took a massive nose dive....wtf kind of ending is that?

[Paul · Rating 4 out of 5]

The fate of New Texas rocks and roils to a catastrophic end. Or does it? This volume showcases the destructive forces attempting to wrest control from the hands of Chas Worthington III. Has the spoiled child turned despot been cornered like a rat in the dump of his kingdom or has he actually learned something from ruling his pile of floating garbage? The answers will stun you. Read this graphic novel series.

[Lauren Schnoebelen · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5⭐️

Honestly, no idea exactly what happened but I read this faster than the previous 2.

So seems like some time has passed an New Texas and greatly expanded. They start suffering from a variety of issues like drug abuse and organized crime. Then they decide to let this guy come and hunt the mutated creatures of the nation but things turn sour and all craziness breaks free.

This volume confused the hell out of me. Now I have zero idea how old Chas is. It doesn’t make any sense at all. But I still strangely enjoyed the ride this story took me on. Do I still think he’s too cleaver for the character he is? Yes, but it was interesting seeing how this whole thing wrapped up. Loved the whole environmental rage against the machine this series had but not actually sure I would recommend it to anyone.

[Chris Browning · Rating 3 out of 5]

Is it wrong of me to 1. enjoy this book more because our ostensible hero gets fucked up a bit? And 2. it’s a bit desperate to make you want to care about where the plot is going by killing the only likeable character so you’re understandably a bit pissed off at the villain. I enjoyed the slightly eccentric first issue in this volume, but just ended up feeling that this sort of thing has been done better by others - it really particularly makes me want to reread Lawless from the Megazine which does the same sort of thing without a fucking insufferable main character

[Devon Munn · Rating 3 out of 5]

While I didn't have any particularly strong feelings towards this series, The plot of this rich kid starting a new country was interesting enough as a premise

The Characters of Color were quite an afterthought. Either side characters or villains. The Indigenous tribe did unfortunately fall into the Mystical Indigenous peoples trope but it was interesting that they were a displaced Indigenous group

[Sheldon · Rating 2 out of 5]

So I guess this series got cancelled as that sure didn't feel like a planned ending, it felt like Image saying "you have few issues left so wrap this up as we're done".

As with the previous volumes there's some lovely art but isn't satisfying at all. Couldn't really recommend this series to anyone like I could with Harris' other work.

[SA · Rating 2 out of 5]

God, what a trash ending to an otherwise entertaining book.

[Christopher · Rating 4 out of 5]

What a fun series!

[Chris Cole · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting premise, but kind of went off the rails. Too ambitious, perhaps.

[Neil · Rating 1 out of 5]

Steaming turd.

[Brian · Rating 3 out of 5]

This third volume is really not as good as the first two. I was kind of left scratching my head and wondering what the hell the characters (and the authors, for that matter) were thinking. It doesn't make a whole lot of sense from the preceding volumes, and I can't understand why the main character makes some of the decisions he does. Just kind of disappointing after I enjoyed the first two volumes so much.

[Sarah T. · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was the roughest volume so far, and to be honest, it didn't feel like much actually happened. More like it was a simply setting up for the events of the next volume. Hopefully Vol 4 has more going on, like the first two.

[Kitap Yakıcı · Rating 1 out of 5]

"It's just that bad."

[Jonathan Roberts · Rating 4 out of 5]

Decent book I like the end. I hope there is more to come because it was just getting good!