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Cowboys and Aliens

Name: Cowboys and Aliens
Author: Scott Mitchell Rosenberg
ISBN: 9780062079442

by Scott Mitchell Rosenberg

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Overview

1873. Arizona.

An era when all a man could count on was his horse and his six-gun, and Indians fought a losing battle with European settlers.

Until somebody else entered the fight—an invader who saw all humans as slaves, and was determined to conquer our world.

About the Author, Scott Mitchell Rosenberg

Scott Mitchell Rosenberg is chairman of Platinum Studios, and creates, produces, and develops comic book properties for all media, including a slate of high-profile, live-action feature films, television series for major networks, direct-to-DVD features, and direct-to-web content.

Fred Van Lente is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Incredible Hercules (with Greg Pak) as well as the award-winning Action Philosophers.

Andrew Foley has written numerous comic books, including the critically acclaimed Parting Ways, the satirical webcomic The Holiday Men, and the series Done to Death, created in collaboration with Eisner Award-nominated artist Fiona Staples.

Luciano Lima has worked for Dark Horse on Grifter and The Mask, for Marvel on Wolverine and X-Force, and for the French publisher Semic.

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Editorials

Publishers Weekly

Rather than a comics adaptation of the much-hyped summer movie, this is a reprint of the 2006 graphic novel from which the filmmakers took a catchy title and a powerful theme: what if space aliens treated all humans the way Europeans treated the Native Americans who were living in the land they coveted? H.G. Wells's The War of the Worlds used the same basic concept back in 1898, but Cowboys drives the point home effectively by beginning with an interstellar warship crashing in 1873 just as an Apache war party is attacking a wagon train of settlers. The glowering aliens have already enslaved other races, but they see Earthlings as too inferior to bother with, a mere nuisance to be exterminated as soon as they can summon the rest of their fleet. To thwart the invaders, humans must learn to fight together. Rosenberg's high-concept idea is developed adequately by Foley and Van Lente's script and Calero and Lima's art, but this is essentially just another piece of movie-promotion merchandise. (June)