Review: Project Alpha
There was once a dreaded force in the galaxy, devouring everything in its path. It was the Viper Onslaught! Only three races stood between them and total conquest. That was over a thousand years ago. This on again, off again war has strained the Triumvirate, some say beyond repair! In this current wave of peacetime, will they be able to consolidate their power? Will the Vipers return? Will the galaxy be destroyed?
In "the big black nothingness that spans the distance between the islands we call planets" the RTS Cerberus patrols the borders... "keeping the empire safe from... well, nothing."
Ir's the graveyard shift. Corbull (purple squid alien) is bored. Nobody has even seen a Viper for more than twenty years. He and his friend Komak (red pterodactyl alien) have flight duty. Technician Lintak (blue monkey alien) launches their fighters out into the void...
... where Corbull promptly nods off and starts dreaming of his homeworld, complete with a Jane Austen style romantic liaison with a ravishing female green squid alien. Just as he and his emerald sweetheart are about to consumate their budding relationship, however, his reverie is shattered.
Vipers! Corbull and Komak are soon engaged in a desperate battle to survive against the savage enemy.
Project Alpha by writer/artist Paul Choate is a comic space romp with some cute visuals. There is not a single human to be seen but the reader will have no trouble identifying with the characters and their idiosyncrasies. It is an explosive introduction to an exotic universe and a war that threatens all life.
Corbull has no experience in actual combat. When boredom segues seamlessly into blind terror, will he have what it takes to save the day? Or will victory slip between his trembling purple tentacles?
PROJECT ALPHA from Indyplanet (digital version free)
Comments
Post a Comment