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“You mess with one bean … you get the whole burrito!”   School’s out for summer! Stacy and Markus are throwing a ball around on campus as their buddies Vi Tu, Leslie and Sheree pass by. But these are no ordinary college kids. These five young stars are prodigy-level students with a keen fascination for medical nanotechnology. Classes may be finished but for this bunch learning never ends. And that’s not all… When an explosion in one of the science laboratories is followed by the sudden appearance of a huge, demonically ferocious bug-eyed alien monster, it turns out that our heroes are even more exceptional. In the blink of an eye – and with a suitably inspirational call to arms – our brave scholars are transformed into gleaming armour-clad super warriors; ready, willing and more than able to whoop some extraterrestrial butt. So far, so mighty morphin’ … but this is no ordinary comic:  Super Wicked White Cell Squadron # 1 by writer/artist Doug Knight is an homage to everything...

  Mars, circa 500 million BCE; the red planet is a brave new world full of life... and death! In Caspian Porter - Part 4: The Battle of Rooster Valley by writer Drew D. Lenhart and artist Juan Fleites, our titular non-heroic protagonist, former cargo freighter pilot and all-round master of disaster, finds himself in the middle of a war zone... of his own making. In the previous issues we learned of the mysterious wormhole above Mars that has sucked in many unsuspecting space travellers from the 21st century and marooned them in the deep past, like a perilous spacetime Sargasso Sea... on a Mars that is covered in lush forests inhabited by carnivorous dinosaurs. Over the years, with very little technology, the survivors have eked out a rustic, tribal civilisation complete with domesticated saurians and archaic weaponry. Two separate camps coexisted more or less peacefully until Porter - having fallen out of the sky after fleeing problems of his own making in the year 2086 - promptly...