Did you know Marc Guggenheim used to write for Law and Order and other TV shows? Did you? Did you hear about all his TV credits? He used to write for TV, did you hear that? We really are blessed to have a writer who's talents have earned him credits such as Law and Order and CSI writing such scintilating comics like "Marvel Comics Presents" and "Not MAX Punisher" bless us with another sequential gem.

All snark aside, I actually like Marc Guggenheim. I just think I've read this story a million times before with zombies or other monsters.

@Dead Air ummm Dead Air: But have you read the part about what happens after all the zombies and monsters are finally gone? The rebuilding process that is always alluded to in the last 10 pages / 10 minutes?

The only examples I can think of are sequals where the zombies/monsters come back again (thus trapping the poor souls in an endless post-apocalypse/post-post-apocalypse loop.)

It's like imagining Mad Max after the nuclear fallout ends, and they aren't oil-dependent because someone created some awesomely cheap solar panels.

Or The Road, but after stuff starts growing again.

It's not clear to me that this is actually what's going on here, but I still like the idea of what happens after we shift from survival and chaos to actual re-building.

Read the first chapter.
Was intriguing enough for me to put it on my mental "to buy"-list.

War of the Worlds, Independance Day...pick up the pieces and start again.

I like the idea a lot. Peace has always been harder than war. See the record of humanity's stupidity, er, history. As much as the idealists (or failed ones like myself) want to believe we can change, it really hasn't.

Like everything else, it's all in the execution. Only suggestion is just don't do an Andromeda where you build the situation up and then end it with a "it's okay cause Kirkules sez so" cop out.

@Jeff-Minor: But you reach that point at the end of both of those stories. The proposition here as a story in which "picking up the pieces and starting again" is the beginning.

It's interesting.

I guess it's just Little House on the Prairie all over again. What happened after the humans escaped the domes in Logan's Run? They at all the cats. I'm sure of it.

I was uninspired by the first four intensely exposition-heavy pages. "But nobody's gone out there and come back in three years!" Thanks for getting me up to speed by having one character tell another character something he knows. I love that.

@Jeff-Minor: There is some reference to a protien-laden sea as well...

Just like aliens -- put all that effort into wiping out humanity, then pack up and leave to go annihilate another sentient lifeform somewhere else.

@92BuickLeSabre: Hey, I'm writing a novel about that as we speak. I'll have to check, but I think my outline may actually contain the words "awesomely cheap solar panels."

@zeppelined: Then that, ma'am/sir, is a novel that I would like to read!

(Hurry! I'm almost through the stack by my desk!)

@92BuickLeSabre: Are you by any chance a literary agent or representative of a publishing house? Please?

@zeppelined: Sadly no. Although I do a mean John Hodgman impression.

@92BuickLeSabre: A mean John Hodgman? Could you do a...let's see...a cautiously optimistic John Hodgman?
Here is the relevant line in my outline, by the way (it's one of many factors leading to a general societal collapse that happened roughly 30 years before the novel is set):
"Energy crisis - oil shortage in 2015 lead to major advances in solar power. Now common, reliable."

Hey, it's just the outline. It's not like Lucas bothered to explain to invented the warp drive or anything.

Oh crap, 8 million Star Wars nerds are about to tell me exactly where and when he did explain it, aren't they?

Interesting. I'll keep up with this for a couple of isues and see if it goes a direction I like.

@92BuickLeSabre: Max Brooks to some degree in World War Z. Otherwise, no, it's always incidental.

@zeppelined: You sealed your death warrant using "Star Wars" and "warp drive" in the same sentence...

Mediocre art, profanity, and the same old middle-school-level ennui. How could it fail?

@NeoPoliticus: I agree so much it's almost scary.

The artwork is second best, the dialogue is poor and heavy and the premise seems interesting but heavy. Not impressed. I won't be buying this any time soon.

Read the first issue they put up. It looks interesting. I really like the idea of what happens AFTER the invasion. Definetly something to pick up later.