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zare_i's review
4.0
This one is collection of Rai comics from the 90's.
Rai, protector of Japan must come to terms with what is expected from him and what truly needs to be done when Japan ends up in space, orbiting planet Earth and left by its controller AI, so called Grandmother.
Bitter feud between two fractions in Japans society - one trying to bring the controlling AI back and other trying to take control of all the power - will bring chaos to Rai's world and endanger not only him but his family too. If he is doing well he is not generally like dby political parties. But when he is not doing good .... then it is not good being Rai.
Like all other Valiant comics this one is more grounded super-hero comic. People lie and die here and there is no happy ending as one might expect.
That aside, since story is mix of various story lines somewhere at the end one will be left with huge number of question marks on what actually happened and then - zooooom - we go back to other story-line and ... that's it (?!?). For this incompleteness and large holes left at the end (I know what happened but what happened before and after?) I deduct one star.
Recommended to all fans of SF.
Rai, protector of Japan must come to terms with what is expected from him and what truly needs to be done when Japan ends up in space, orbiting planet Earth and left by its controller AI, so called Grandmother.
Bitter feud between two fractions in Japans society - one trying to bring the controlling AI back and other trying to take control of all the power - will bring chaos to Rai's world and endanger not only him but his family too. If he is doing well he is not generally like dby political parties. But when he is not doing good .... then it is not good being Rai.
Like all other Valiant comics this one is more grounded super-hero comic. People lie and die here and there is no happy ending as one might expect.
That aside, since story is mix of various story lines somewhere at the end one will be left with huge number of question marks on what actually happened and then - zooooom - we go back to other story-line and ... that's it (?!?). For this incompleteness and large holes left at the end (I know what happened but what happened before and after?) I deduct one star.
Recommended to all fans of SF.
wbfreema's review
4.0
it really is a shame this doesn't have the origin story from Magnus or Rai #0 in it, making it a complete collection. the Unity story lines feel a bit out of place to the rest of the Rai story, but nice having all 8 issues in one place. I want to go digging through my boxes to pull out all the Unity stuff to re-read now.
blackestclovers's review
4.0
Very interesting Valiant book. RAI was a fantastic character (made even better by Matt Kindt in the current run) and this really was a fantastic collection. Interesting including the UNITY stuff, which is great, considering they can't print the whole run. Regardless, pick this up. 90s comics at its best.
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