Resident Alien: The Book of Life #3

This third chapter of Peter Hogan and Steve Parkhouse's Resident Alien: The Book of Life mini-series offers a quietly unsettling scene rendered in Parkhouse's distinctive, understated linework — an alien disguised as an ordinary man sits on a park bench, sunglasses concealing his true nature, surrounded by the everyday bustle of young mothers, children, a baby carriage, and pigeons pecking at the ground. The juxtaposition of the alien's stillness against the warm, mundane life swirling around him gives the cover a gentle but unmistakable tension. Dark Horse delivers this penultimate issue just as the series, now also a SYFY original, continues to find the extraordinary hiding in plain sight.