Virgin Comics/Liquid Comics (2005-present)

Nitcentral's Bulletin Brash Reflections: Comic books: Misc. Publishers: Virgin Comics/Liquid Comics (2005-present)
Started as Virgin Comics it later underwent a buyout & a name change to Liquid Comics
By Keith Alan Morgan on Wednesday, March 24, 2010 - 1:20 am:

The Stranded was a series done in conjunction with the SciFi Channel about a group of aliens stranded on Earth & hunted by another alien group.

As far as I can tell only 5 issues were printed & I don't know if the planned TV version was ever made.

General nits
Some of the clothes the people wear are too unearthly. Okay, so Tamree & Dzin can affect people's minds to not see them, but still, I doubt that would work on a surveillance camera.

Even if the TV connection wasn't shown by including the SciFi logo & the introduction it wouldn't be that hard to guess there was a TV connection. The "special effects" look like the sort of things that would be possible on a TV or movie & not strictly from an artist's imagination.

Sometimes being vague & mysterious hurts a story rather than helps it. At the beginning we know nothing other than some aliens disguised as humans are being killed by another alien (apparently), so it's hard to feel sympathy for 'victims' who might be enemies of Earth. It's not until a few issues in that we find out that the undercover aliens had been attacked on their world & were hiding on Earth, by which time there is very little sympathy to be had for them. Particularly since their hiding on Earth makes Earth the next target.

NANJAO. Some aspects of this story have a CrossGen feel, for instance the appearance of the Grunts sort of resembles some warriors of the Negation, the disembodied existence of the Forgotten is reminiscent of the ascended Atlanteans & the not quite dead scientist the Forgotten have working for them is similar to Mordath from Sojourn.

The Stranded #1 Reprinted in The Stranded (graphic novel)
NNAN. Gareth doesn't look old enough to be buying booze in a bar.

The Stranded #5 Reprinted in The Stranded (graphic novel)
Page 15, Panel 2. Tamree says, "You've been given a fantasy to live instead of you real life."
The "you" should be 'your'.


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