Overgrowth, Vatican City.Tor NightfireOvergrowthUsually when aliens invade and start doing the whole body snatching thing, they don't go around telling everyone about it.Anastasia, aka Stasia, Miller seems to have missed that memo.The main character of Mira Grant's is an infiltrator from a race of plant-like aliens who came to Earth as a seed, stole the body of 3-year-old Anastasia and has been living as her ever since.
And that's pretty much how she introduces herself to everyone she meets.Most people don't believe her, and she lives a relatively normal life.She grows up to be somewhat awkward and, fittingly, is obsessed with, but has a couple of good friends, a supportive partner and a pet cat (Seymour, of course), who she adores.
Aliens, they're just like us.Everything is flipped on its head when a scientist detects an extraterrestrial signal and Stasia recognizes it as the sign that her people have finally come to launch the full-scale invasion she's always been warning of.is a thrilling sci-fi horror story that's also at times lighthearted and funny.
It hooked me right away and I was glad it's almost 500 pages long, because I didn't want to put it down.$15 at AmazonDark Horse ComicsVatican City #1 is a three issue mini-series about a vampire takeover by Mark Millar and artist Per Berg that gets straight to the action, and holds nothing back.In this series, millions of vampires have suddenly stepped out of the shadows and launched an attack on humankind.
They've wiped out pretty much everyone everywhere — except the Vatican, where something extremely important to them is buried deep beneath the holy city. The first two issues see a group of survivors trying to hold off the vampire siege of the Vatican.It's short, violent and exhilarating, making for a quick, fun read that's not that deep and doesn't need to be.The final issue comes out June 18.
$4 at Amazon
