UFO (Comic Book Series)

UFO is a action-horror comic book/graphic novel series concept by Red-Verse-Writer, based upon the trilogy of games of the same name by the now-defunct Czech game studio ALTAR Interactive. Set in a alternate history in which a alien spaceship went into orbit around Earth's atmosphere on May 24th 2004 and released a cloud of mysterious spores onto the planet that killed the majority of the macro-scale life on Earth, the series revolves around the few remaining humans on the planet, mainly a group set in the North American continent, as they effort to survive, regroup with their fellow humans and take revenge upon the aliens who destroyed their planet.

Publication Info
"On May 24th, 2004, an alien spacecraft roughly the same size as the country of Australia began to orbit around the Earth. Ignoring all human attempts to communicate with it and immune to nuclear missiles fired at it, it soon began to release massive clouds of spores into the upper layers of the atmosphere, where they rapidly multiplied and almost completely blocked out the sun. After seven days of this "Twilight", as the humans called it, the spore cloud reached critical mass and the spore began to rain down on the planet, clogging the streets and seas, burying animals in the wild and smothering humans in their homes. In less than a day the majority of the macro-scale life on Earth was wiped out. However, some humans managed to survive this "Nightfall" by taking shelter underground with supplies of food and water, seeds, animals and resources. Hiding in bunkers, or taking shelter in sealed bases, or just by sheer luck, these people managed to survive for a whole year until the spore dissipated, decomposing and fading away. Life could emerge once again. Now humanity has risen back up, with intents of surviving, regrouping, reclaiming territory, finding out what happened, and, if possible, taking vengeance..."

Story Arcs

 * 1) UFO: Hope
 * 2) UFO: Survivors
 * 3) UFO: Dreamland

Central Characters

 * Malcolm McLean: The de facto central protagonist of the series, a Caucasian American man and one of the few humans who managed to survive outside of a bunker or shelter, surviving inside his own home via growing his own corn in his basement and scavenging the city in a gas mask with a Colt pistol.
 * Brian Fleck: The main deuteragonist of the series, a Caucasian American man who worked as a scout for the Los Angeles Union of Survivors before meeting Malcolm.
 * Transgenants: The results of the Biomass infecting and reanimating the corpses of dead humans and animals into new, horrific forms. They come in many different varieties, but the majority of them are based upon human corpses. They possess no real intelligence, and are entirely driven by their hostility towards humans and unmutated animals.
 * Dangleflies: The first type of Transgenants encountered in the series, Dangleflies are houseflies grown to the size of dogs, covered in spores, and possessing more advanced, human-like limbs capable of wielding melee weapons.
 * Morelmen: The most recurring and humanoid Transgenants encountered, Morelmen are human corpses with gigantic cancerous tumors on their backs, resembling the sea plant morel, which is where the name comes from. The rest of the body has decayed to little more than skin and bones, with a large spike or ridge jutting from the ribcage. Among the more intelligent Transgenants, Morelmen are capable of operating firearms, working together in groups, opening doors and setting up traps and ambushes.
 * Taxicrab: A gigantic form of unseen arachnid-like creature that hides its main body inside a armoured car or taxi as a shell, with its long, spindly limbs poking free from the shell.
 * Carcrab: A smaller, weaker and more numerous variant of the Taxicrab, using any car they can find as a shell rather than specifically reinforced ones.
 * Reticulans: The central antagonists of the series, a race of extraterrestrial life native to the Zeta Reticulum system 40 light years from Earth.