The Life Eaters

In this 2003 one-shot from DC Comics, writer David Brin and artist Scott Hampton present a stark alternate history where the Norse gods are real and return to Earth during World War II—not as saviors, but as monstrous, ravenous beings sustained by human worship. The story unfolds as a desperate alliance between American and Soviet forces must confront these cosmic horrors, whose presence reshapes the war and humanity's understanding of divinity. A thoughtful, unsettling fusion of mythological epic and military science fiction, The Life Eaters stands as a compact, provocative meditation on the cost of belief.