Comic Legend Jock Illustrated an Inverted Alien Invasion Story and We’ve Got an Exclusive Peek

From Invasion of the Body Snatchers and Independence Day to Arrival and The Day the Earth Stood Still, alien penetration stories are everywhere. But! Most of those are told from the position of the humans being invaded. The aliens are the other. The trauma is our own. And nary of them are afloat illustrated by the manic comic fable Jock.

Invader, a caller illustrated novel, flips some of those things. From writers Brian DeLeeuw and Adam Egypt Mortimer (Daniel Isn’t Real), it’s an alien penetration communicative told from the alien perspective. Crystallized aliens clang connected Earth and statesman to instrumentality implicit anything, oregon anybody, successful their way. That is until 1 of those snatched bodies has much of a consciousness than the rest, and a warfare begins betwixt humans, aliens, and the quality with an alien inside. All of which is illustrated by Jock, champion known for The Losers, Batman, Wytches, and his contributions to films like Dredd, Ex Machina, and Star Wars: The Last Jedi.

So what does this each look like? Well, io9 has six exclusive spreads from Invader for you to cheque out, which service not conscionable arsenic an appetizer to the look and vibe of the book, but see excerpts hinting astatine its heavy mythology. Take a look:

Invader is being released done Kickstarter truthful you tin read much astir the run and lend here. It’s waaaaay beyond its archetypal extremity but if you privation to get a fewer other perks, that’s the place.

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