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Image Comics Hardcover#1
Image Comics Hardcover #1
“The Way It Was”
writer Erik Larsen · artist Erik Larsen · inker Erik Larsen · colorist Reuben Rude · colorist Abel Mouton · letterer Chris Eliopoulos
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Cast · 16 characters
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writer Erik Larsen
artist Erik Larsen
inker Erik Larsen
colorist Reuben Rude
colorist Abel Mouton
letterer Chris Eliopoulos
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Savage alien, Emperor Kurr, is poised to wipe out humanity and take over earth as a new home for his people. When a pair of his scientists object to wiping out an entire sentient race, Kurr threatens to kill them and move forward with his plan anyway. Reich and Weiko retrieve a fertilized egg from Kurr's bedchamber (after the emperor brutally kills the woman he bedded down) and, with the next generation of the royal line preserved, they give the Emperor a lobotomy, sterilize him and leave him behind on earth in a burning field.
Plot details indexed by the Grand Comics Database (CC BY-SA).