Gant, Rob – Blue Collar Invasion #1

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Blue Collar Invasion #1

There’s a really great premise for a comic series set up in this first issue. The “Galactic Community” sees the progress Earth is making towards reaching distant stars and decides to set up a base on the moon, minimally staffed, to make sure we don’t spread our war-mongering and resource-devouring behinds into outer space. As time goes by, with nothing but tv to keep them entertained, these aliens eventually get to like Earth culture. This was all said in a recap that was filled with all sorts of typos and grammatical errors at the start of the book, which continues to bug the hell out me, so I’ll continue to mention it when I see it. If you can get past that, this is more of a preview than an actual issue. The aliens nab a pizza delivery guy (for the pizza), decide who’s going to get stuck giving him the probe and play video games. It’s broken down into one page segments, although to me it would be better served as more of a continuous chunk, but I’m just some guy with a website. Once you get past the grammatical and spelling errors that possibly only bother me anyway, the art is gorgeous. Rob has obviously put some time into designing these aliens (he includes some sketchbook pages in the back) and there are some imaginative and creepy things on the horizon, even if this issue only had the three mostly plain aliens. I’m very curious to see more, although I wish he would have somebody read over the dialogue before putting out #2. The possibilities here are endless if he sticks with this concept…