Harvest #1 – Quick Review

By: A.J. Lieberman (writer), Colin Lorimer (artist) and Brandon DeStefano (letters)

The Story: An organ-stealing ring seen from the eyes of a fallen surgeon.

Quick review: This was a very promising first issue.  It’s not something you’ll want to be buried with, but it is well worth checking out if you’re looking for something gritty and grimy.

In case you didn’t know…..organ harvesting is a serious, real-world problem than has its roots in an understandable problem: If your loved one or child needed an organ transplant to live, but was put on a 4 year wait-list, would you pay ~$50,000 to get a “no questions asked” organ in a third-world country???  It’s easy to get on your ethical high-horse and say you would never do such a thing…..until it’s your child who needs a kidney.  Many people do this every year and try to convince themselves that the kidney their child received came from a kid who died in a car accident and not a kid who was kidnapped and chopped up like a stolen car or who was sold by her own parents so that the rest of the family could eat.