Alienated #1 - Feb 12, 2020

high school. higher concept.

3 outcasts.
1 godlike entity.
endless fun.

ALIENATED is about a bunch of outcast teenagers who find something remarkable in the woods on their way to school. Something alive.

The idea started years ago as a question (what if E.T.'s Elliot wasn't such a nice kid?) and has evolved into something far more nuanced, characterful and psychedelic. With a bodycount.

Issue #1 drops next month. Febuary 12th, to be precise. Despite usual Spurrier fatalism I'm weirdly confident. This one, I think, will be big.

Skip to the bottom for a fully colored preview. But first we need you to do a little something for us.

See, this Monday — January 20th — marks the Final Order Cutoff.

[F.O.C is this weird thing we have in comics where retailers are expected to somehow predict how many copies of a book they're going to sell, and hence how many they ought to order for their shelves, about a month before the book’s even finished. This is a) silly and b) part of a far bigger rant. Don’t ask.]

For now, in practical terms what F.O.C means is: if you want to guarantee a copy of #1, you need to tell your local comic store you want one. Like, right now, please.

Alienated is illustrated by the masterful Christian Wildgoose, with Andre May colors and Jim Campbell lettering. As you’ll see when fully finished pages start appearing, all three of them are critical to the storytelling tricks we’re playing, and all three are duly bringing their alpha game.

Basically, it’s really good, and only slightly vituperatively horrible, and you should definitely get it.