Graphic Classics #17

Looming over a burning landscape beneath an eerie orange sky, a towering alien war machine dominates the cover of this 2009 anthology from Eureka Productions — a fitting image for a volume promising Martian odysseys and wars of the worlds drawn from Jules Verne, Stanley G. Weinbaum, E.M. Forster, and H.G. Wells. Cover artist Micah Farritor renders the scene with a brooding, cinematic energy, tiny human figures dwarfed beneath the mechanical behemoth as a pale moon hangs in the distance. With interior work including contributions from Roger Langridge, Graphic Classics Volume 17 is a handsome gathering of science fiction's most enduring literary voices in sequential art form.