Jeremiah Harm

Jeremiah Harm #1-5

by Keith Giffen, Alan Grant

From Keith Giffen (52, Annihilation) and Alan Grant (Batman, Lobo) comes this hard-hitting sci- fi series with a gritty tone and a brutal anti-hero as the lead! When three of the galaxy's most fearsome criminals escape confinement on a prison planet and wind up on Earth, the authorities have no choice but to free the most wanted man in the universe - Jeremiah Harm - to track these fugitives down and stop them. He doesn't love you, he doesn't want to be your friend, he isn't your super-hero - and God help you if you find yourself in harm's way! Featuring art from Rael Lyra ( Legend of Huma) and Rafael Albuquerque (Blue Beetle).

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels, Science Fiction, Fiction

128 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2007

About the author

Keith Ian Giffen was an American comic book illustrator and writer. He is possibly best-known for his long runs illustrating, and later writing the Legion of Super-Heroes title in the 1980s and 1990s. He also created the alien mercenary character Lobo (with Roger Slifer), and the irreverent "want-to-be" hero, Ambush Bug. Giffen is known for having an unorthodox writing style, often using characters in ways not seen before. His dialogue is usually characterized by a biting wit that is seen as much less zany than dialogue provided by longtime collaborators DeMatteis and Robert Loren Fleming. That approach has brought him both criticism and admiration, as perhaps best illustrated by the mixed (although commercially successful) response to his work in DC Comics' Justice League International (1987-1992). He also plotted and was breakdown artist for an Aquaman limited series and one-shot special in 1989 with writer Robert Loren Fleming and artist Curt Swan for DC Comics.

Giffen's first published work was "The Sword and The Star", a black-and-white series featured in Marvel Preview, with writer Bill Mantlo. He has worked on titles (owned by several different companies) including Woodgod, All Star Comics, Doctor Fate, Drax the Destroyer, Heckler, Nick Fury's Howling Commandos, Reign of the Zodiac, Suicide Squad, Trencher (to be re-released in a collected edition by Boom! Studios)., T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents, and Vext. He was also responsible for the English adaptation of the Battle Royale and Ikki Tousen manga, as well as creating "I Luv Halloween" for Tokyopop. He also worked for Dark Horse from 1994-95 on their Comics Greatest World/Dark Horse Heroes line, as the writer of two short lived series, Division 13 and co-author, with Lovern Kindzierski, of Agents of Law. For Valiant Comics, Giffen wrote XO-Manowar, Magnus, Robot Fighter, Punx and the final issue of Solar, Man of the Atom.

He took a break from the comic industry for several years, working on storyboards for television and film, including shows such as The Real Ghostbusters and Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy.

He is also the lead writer for Marvel Comics's Annihilation event, having written the one-shot prologue, the lead-in stories in Thanos and Drax, the Silver Surfer as well as the main six issues mini-series. He also wrote the Star-Lord mini-series for the follow-up story Annihilation: Conquest. He currently writes Doom Patrol for DC, and is also completing an abandoned Grant Morrison plot in The Authority: the Lost Year for Wildstorm.

Reviews

[David Dalton · Rating 4 out of 5]

I am not normally a big fan of Keith Giffen, But I did like this Jeremiah Harm character. This would make a great sci-fi action movie. With tones of The Fifth Element or Lockout. I much prefer Harm to Lobo. And the New York City characters were pretty cool. Are there any more Jeremiah Harm stories? I picked this to read via Comixology Unlimited. I did not see any more on their site. I would like to see more stories with this character.

[Robert · Rating 1 out of 5]

to dark, to muddy, to small, and to enamored with its own story to cogently relate it to the reader, leaving one uninterested in the characters, fatigued with effort to absorb it, and uninvested in the story, all together a terrible read.

[Index Purga · Rating 3 out of 5]

Tomo 18 de la colección. Índice pendiente.

[Daryl · Rating 1 out of 5]

Bad art.* Worse writing**

*(Although the last two chapters/issues by Rafael Albuquerque are marginally better.)

**(Includes both plot and dialogue.)

[Brendan · Rating 2 out of 5]

no backgrounds, no real story or character moments, just one of those graphic novels that doesn't work. Expected some sci fi noir but recieved a bore. Better books around than this