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Secret Weapons by Eric Heisserer

This was a lot of fun.

So spin-offs of series can sometimes be better than the series they came from. After diving down into bad area for harbinger after volume 5 I kind of gave up on Valiant. However, Secret Weapons was not only refreshing but a ton of fun. The losers, the outsides, the psiots that got away from Toyo's psycho ass are still on the run. However, what happens when a creature starts hunting them down. Some familiar faces from the other series bring this into a new chapter, a more runaway/survival style chapter and easily my favorite thing from the Harbinger line.

Good: All the kids getting along worked well. The dialog was natural and super fun. A few forced moments didn't stop this from working as a whole.I also loved how each power was used well for each character instead of focused on one. The ending leaves a lot of awesome ways to go as this is basically the outsiders, the lost, children who just happened to be psiots.

Bad: Some forced political moments felt little odd and I also thought some of the art didn't gel well, especially with the fighting.

Overall I liked this a lot. Easy, fun, and well drawn for the most part, Secret Weapons should be the series you check out after being let down by Harbinger. I feel this is what THAT series promised to do but failed. A 4 out of 5.