It’s Mars Attacks like you’ve never seen it, from the co-creator of The Maxx and the team behind The Hollows, Chris Ryall and Sam Kieth! When Mars attacked Earth, the battle left no side unscarred, least of all a lonely old man and his blind niece… along with the first Martian child born on Earth! Will the child’s warlike ways take over, or is there more going on here than it seems? Also features an art gallery by Kieth and Loston Wallace!
“Ryall and Kieth trick you into thinking this is a Mars Aacks story. It is a Mars Attacks story in the strictest sense, but it’s so much more. Those two men don’t do simple. You’re going to want to pay attention to this series.” —Comic Book Therapy “Ryall and Kieth really tug at the heartstrings in a moving and uncontrived way throughout, while using the constant threat of the Martians to amplify those attachments.” —Destroy the Brain
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Originally published as MARS ATTACKS: FIRST BORN issues #1–4.
Story by Chris Ryall & Sam Kieth Written by Chris Ryall Art by Sam Kieth Letters by Shawn Lee Series Edits by Denton J. Tipton Cover by Sam Kieth Collection Edits by Justin Eisinger & Alonzo Simon Collection Design by CLAUDIA CHONG Mars Attacks created by Len Brown.
Cover by Loston Wallace
Colors by Stephen Downer