Alien Legion
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Alien Legion was an early Epic Comics title about the members of a military unit called Force Nomad, comprised of the "dregs of the universe" and similar to the French Foreign Legion. The cast includes leader Sarigar, whose lower half is serpentine, fully humanoid Torie Montroc, and probably the most popular character, Jugger Grimrod, a Thraxian.
Primary creator Carl Potts and co-creators Alan Zelenetz and Frank Cirocco developed the concept, and in 1983 Epic launched the first of several Alien Legion miniseries and one-shots. Collaborators have included writers Chuck Dixon and Larry Stroman and artists Terry Austin, Whilce Portacio, and Scott Hanna, among others.
In 2003, Potts was working with Mainframe Entertainment on a possible computer-animated Alien Legion television series but this was abandoned once Mainframe was sold.
Early issues used the fuller title The Alien Legion in its logo.
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[edit] Bibliography (Epic Comics)
- The Alien Legion Vol. 1 (20 issues)
- The Alien Legion Vol. 2 (18 issues)
- The Alien Legion: A Grey Day To Die (graphic novel)
- Alien Legion: On The Edge (3 issues, bookshelf format)
- Alien Legion: Tenants Of Hell (2 issues, bookshelf format)
- Alien Legion: One Planet At A Time (3 issues, bookshelf format)
- Alien Legion: Grimrod (one-shot, bookshelf format)
- Law Dog - Grimrod: Terror at the Crossroads (one-shot, bookshelf format)
- Alien Legion "Binary Deep (one-shot, bookshelf format)
- The Alien Legion: Slaughterworld (trade paperback collection)
- Epic: An Anthology #3
- Heavy Hitters Annual
All of Volume 2 and the first 6 issues of Volume 1 have been published in trade paperback form. Checker Publishing (www.checkerbpg.com)released the books "Force Nomad" and "Piecemaker" that collect Volume 2, and "Footsloggers", which collects the first 6 issues of Volume 1. Titan Books published trades of the "On the Edge" and "Tenants of Hell" storylines.
The websites of these publishers can corroborate this.
[edit] Awards
The graphic album, Alien Legion: A Grey Day to Die, received the Squiddy Award for Favorite Graphic Album in 1988.
[edit] Quotes
Carl Potts: [1] "The original concept was the 'Foreign Legion in space' and all the legionnaires were human. ... Then I created the humanoid/serpentine design that later became Sarigar and decided that the Legion should include a wide variety of species. This was in the early '70s. By the time I got around to developing the idea further in the early '80s, Star Wars obviously became an influence. The Alien Legion universe is a giant extrapolation of the American democratic melting-pot society where different races and cultures work together for the common good while dealing with the pluses and problems that the nation's diversity creates."
