The Silent Invasion

In the late 1990s, Caliber Press published Michael Cherkas and Larry Hancock’s The Silent Invasion, a six-issue series that reimagined the paranoid sci-fi of 1950s alien invasion tales through a modern, politically charged lens. The story follows a skeptical journalist who uncovers a covert extraterrestrial infiltration of American society, blending Cold War-era dread with contemporary anxieties about government surveillance and media manipulation. Cherkas’s sharp, dialogue-driven scripts and Hancock’s stark, atmospheric black-and-white art create a taut, noir-inflected thriller that stands as a cult classic of independent 1990s comics.