M.A.R.S.

M.A.R.S. (Metalic Advanced Robotic Soldier) is a comic series published by. It follows a robot named M.A.R.S. (or MARS as it's spelled a lot of the time) who is from a fictional planet named Omnicron. He is sent to Earth to defeat a race of shapeshifting aliens known as the Red Spartans. It was released on March 30th, 1995.

Synopsis
Axos, also known as M.A.R.S., is one of the planet Omnicron's top warriors, tasked with hunting down a vile shapeshifting race known as Red Spartans. When the Red Spartans set their eyes on the planet Earth, Axos is sent to protect Earth from them, with the help of a human.

Main

 * Axos/M.A.R.S. - an alien sent to Earth to hunt down Red Spartans and to protect Earth from them and other threats.
 * Christina Rodgers - a Private investigator who finds M.A.R.S. and immediately becomes his close ally.

Supporting

 * Vexos/S.T.A.R. - another Omnicronian warrior who starts out as an antagonist to M.A.R.S. until learning sympathy and becoming an ally to him.
 * Otis - a genetically modified lab beagle dog who is found and adopted by M.A.R.S. and becomes his pet.

Antagonists

 * Red Spartans, consisting of:
 * Queen Eridite - the intelligent queen of the Red Spartans who co-leads the invasion on Earth and believes that she should be young forever.
 * King Phanatos - the blood-thirsty king of the Red Spartans who mainly wants a worthy opponent to fight.
 * Ponta - a Red Spartan spy who uses her abilities to get valuable information from numerous TBD.

Issues

 * 1) Prologue - Set 100 years before modern day, an alien from Omnicron fights against a horde of Red Spartans with the issue ending with M.A.R.S. placing himself in a stasis pod, flying towards Earth for 100 years as the Red Spartans conquer Omnicron.
 * 2) First Contact - 100 years later, Axos TBD.