Airlock #1
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join free"Airlock" #1 (1990, Eclectus Ltd.) delivers a tense, claustrophobic sci-fi thriller from writer Rod Underhill and artist Tom Helmers, with inks by Topper Helmers and lettering by Steve Haynie. When a spaceship's hibernation system fails and food shortages threaten the lives of its 17 crew members, the ship's programmer is forced to make an impossible choice—only to be betrayed by those he tried to save. The cover, by Topper Helmers, captures the chilling moment of isolation and dread.
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A spaceship going through extended trouble develops problems in its hibernation program. The ship's computer programmer realizes there won't be enough food for all 17 of the crew to survive. When he tells the others one person must be chosen to die, the crew gang up on him and throw him in the airlock. However, the programmer had foreseen this and when they attempt to blow him into space, it opens another airlock and kills them instead. The programmer is left to return home alone.
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