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City on the Edge
Premier Issue, February 1985 A group of renegade Visitors attacks the Club Creole in an effort to eliminate Ham Tyler per Nathan Bates orders. Not knowing of this secret deal, Diana is furious that her troops disobeyed her personal orders to not cause any disturbances. Mike, Julie, and Willie fly a skyfighter into a rural town and discover that there is some sort of conspiracy between the townspeople and the Visitors. Meanwhile, Ham and Chris flee the group of Visitors trying to kill them. Issue #2, March 1985. Mike and Julie venture into town and realize that the Visitors offer the town peace in exchange for free access to the natural springs nearby. The townspeople put Mike and Julie in jail, but a kid helps them by informing Willie back on the shuttle of the situation. Meanwhile, Ham and Chris outrun and outgun the Visitor headhunters.
Encounter!
Issue #3, April 1985. Mike, Julie, and Willie convince the townspeople to fight back, and the Visitor cargo shuttle is destroyed along with all its troops, except for the commanding officer who flees back to Diana. At the very end, Ham and Chris force the Visitor Lorne to bring them to Bates under the guise that they are dead.
Alien Conflict!
Issue #4, May 1985. Ham and Chris spare Bates because he needs the duo to locate and save Kyle and Elizabeth, who fled from an incident with a Visitor patrol are are in danger of being captured. Ham and Chris locate Elizabeth and bring her to Bates to recover, but Kyle is nowhere to be found. When she wakes up, Elizabeth says she can see Kyle — and he's in danger! Meanwhile, the astronomer Earl Meagan (who looks suspiciously like Carl Sagan) seeks refuge with the Resistance, after his invitation to Diana for a peace summit is accepted. Meagan hopes for peace, but he seems to have something else up his sleeve in the event that peace is not the outcome of the summit.
The Price of Peace
Issue #5, June 1985. Elizabeth reveals that Kyle is captive at Camp Lakka, the prison where Visitors experiment on perfecting humans as a food source. Ham and Chris enter the camp disguised as Visitors with Bates as their prisoner. Meanwhile, Earl Meagan arrives on Diana's mothership for the peace summit. Unbeknownst to each other, Diana plans to convert the scientist, and Earl plans to destroy her ship with the microbomb implanted in his body. When the Resistance realize what Earl has been up to all along, Donovan rushes to prevent the bomb from being activated. But at the end, it already has been triggered.
Shatterday
Issue #6, July 1985. Ham and Chris rescue Bates and his son Kyle from the camp, along with the other prisoners. They detonate explosives, destroying the camp and all the experiments within it. Donovan and Willie rescue Earl from the mothership, but Earl later pilots his own shuttlecraft back toward the mothership to finish his mission. When three other craft surround him to re-capture him for Diana, his bomb goes off, and only the four shuttles are destroyed. But, everyone back on Earth believes Earl was killed by the Visitors, and he becomes a martyr for the Resistance cause.
Tennyson
Issue #7, August 1985. Julie faces her inner fears of being alone when she travels back to her home town, not knowing that Diana is aware of her presence and has sent an assassin to find her. Julie meets up with an old high school buddy, and different as he seems to her, he ends up saving her from the Visitors.
Printer's Devil
Issue #8, September 1985. Robin, Chris, and Ham make their way toward Chicago, and on the way help a small town's freedom press discover that disguised Visitors are in their midst and intend to thwart the publication of their newspaper. Robin falls for a kind man, but he turns out to be one of those Visitors, and Robin is distraught over the ordeal. Ham and Chris help the people lure out the spies and the press is saved.
The Poison in the Apple
Issue #9, October 1985. Mike, Julie, Willie, Elizabeth, and Kyle travel to New York to revive their Resistance, because their spring is nearing, and they fear Diana will attempt to take the city again. The mayor declines their offer, but it is revealed that the mayor is actually a Visitor in disguise planted by Diana. Diana sends more disguised soldiers to eliminate Mike and Julie, but it doesn't work, and the L.A. Resistance members are alerted to the aliens' presence in New York. At the end, a Visitor assassin has been dispatched by Lydia to kill Donovan, as several citizens come to Mike and Julie for help to save their city.
The Deadly Rites of Spring!
Issue #10, November 1985. As the L.A. Resistance begins to organize a New York group, Mayor Stein appears and confesses to being a Visitor in disguise — but she's also part of the Fifth Column. She shares her plan to thwart Diana's East Coast invasion, which centers around a device that will be planted on the Empire State Building. The device will alter the weather, keeping the area in cool late-winter conditions, and keeping the red dust in effect. The assassin fails in his attempt to kill Donovan, and the device is implanted successfully. The Mayor Stein Visitor gives up her life when Diana discovers her true allegiance, but the damage has already been done.
Meanhile, Out In Space...
Issue #11, December 1985. Prince Bron, the Leader's son, is sent to Earth to see the war first-hand, but the pilots of his ship turn out to be fifth-columnists that turn Bron over to the Resistance. The Visitors attack their new base, not knowing Bron is there, and Willie is taken prisoner. Julie, Mike, Elizabeth and Kyle escape with Bron.
Siege
Issue #12, January 1986. Using the face-creator on the shuttlecraft, Bron is made to look human, and the group splits up. Mike and Julie take Bron, all three disguised as a farming family. On the mothership, Lydia continues her torture of Willie, but Diana has her own plans and disguises one of her soldiers with Willie's recreated face.
The Prince and the Power!
Issue #13, February 1986. Willie escapes the mother ship, just as Diana sends the imposter Willie to infiltrate and destroy the remaining Resistance. In a prisoner exchange, Bron is being returned to the Visitors in a shuttle piloted by the fake Willie, but the real Willie had already snuck aboard. Willie defeats his imposter and returns the shuttle and Bron to the Resistance.
Conquest — At Any Cost!
Issue #14, March 1986. Mike, Julie, and Bron arrive in a rural town and discover that its only inhabitants are children. They discover that all the adults were taken away by the Visitors for some unknown reason. Kyle and Elizabeth set up a new base on the Catalina islands, where new Resistance member Miki challenges Kyle's authority to command the group. After a fight, the two come to terms with each other. Meanwhile, after an unsuccessful rescue attempt on Prince Bron, Lydia is sentenced to death for failing the Leader.
Blood on the Wind
Issue #15, April 1986. Lydia is executed, and Diana continues her plans to escalate the war. Meanwhile in Chicago, Ham and Chris are captured by the Visitors while investigating a secret base in a warehouse. The installation is a center where Visitors who have lost their fervor for the war are being brainwashed to fight the humans. With help from fifth-columnists who have infiltrated the base, Ham and Chris demolish the place, and escape with the other prisoners — all adults from the same town Mike and Julie are in. Back at that town, the children led by their oldest have discovered that Bron is a Visitor and have sentenced him, Mike, and Julie to die as spies.
Peace on Earth?
Issue #16, May 1986. At the new Catalina Resistance base, Kyle and Miki are testing modifications to a skyfighter that make it capable of undersea travel when Elizabeth has a vision and insists that they must return to Los Angeles. Back at the town of Mayville, preparations are being made for an execution when a skyfighter lands, having detected a signal from Prince Bron. With the help of his Sirian crystal, Bron and his two fellow prisoners escape from their jail cell. But while fleeing, Bron throws himself in the path of a Visitor laser beam intended for Donovan. In a mystical energy cocoon, Bron's body levitates into space where it is retrieved by a sentinel ship of the Leader's Royal Fleet (which looks a bit like a Star Destroyer). Diana boards the ship to see if Bron really is dead, and discovers Lydia on board. Lydia explains that the Leader planned everything from the beginning — that Bron was sent to Earth to observe the humans and their culture first-hand. Even Lydia's death was faked. And back on Earth, as the Resistance is reunited in L.A. they are suddenly cornered and about to be vaporized — when a booming voice is heard from the mothership, "Cease all hostilities." The Visitor troops recognize the voice as none other than the Leader.
For Old Times' Sake!
Issue #17, June 1986. A flashback storyline focusing on Elias Taylor.
End Game
Final Issue, July 1986. A flashback storyline focusing on Elias Taylor. |
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