The idea started out in 1986 as Invasion Earth but when Fleetway became interested it was adapted and became The Ultimate Game but cut-backs in the company meant that the project was shelved. Then it became less epic as Looking Glass and then Fleetway backed out again.
A name change to Parallel Motions/Cosmic Fulcrum when it was considered by two other publishers –before they went out of business!
Come print on demand and self publishing the story, now Return of the Gods: Twilight of the Super Heroes, ran across 6 issues of Black Tower Adventure -136 pages that, after a reworking putting events on an even grander scale and making it the UKs first major action graphic novel, that page count rose to over 360 pages and Return of the Gods: Twilight of the Super Heroes became volume 1 of the Invasion Earth Trilogy.
That book was followed by volume 2 of the Invasion Earth Trilogy –The Cross Earths Caper.
Both books featured super heroes and action spread around the world and in outer space: a giant robot. Warring gods. The Boarman invasion of Earth and much more. In both books the alien Vampirons stayed in the background and plotted and schemed and awaited the time for the arrival of their god –The Many-Eyed One.
In 2020 the final volume of the trilogy is published in three parts as The Green Skies. Alien craft and refugee vessels shoot through the Sol System and soon information reveals that a great alien invasion fleet is heading into our solar system attacking outer planets and destroying any vessel they come across. On Earth a virus is sweeping the planet and people are being infected by another virus –this one an alien nano virus. Victims become the mindless puppets of the Vampirons who are called The Cl;one Zone Boys.
Amidst global panic heroes as well as Earth own defence forces attempt to stop the spread of the virus. In space peaceful Mars is bombarded. OPn the Moon the Selenite Council calls on Johnny Apollo to head its combined defensive fleet against the invaders…and if defence fails a dooms-day device will be detonated wiping out the enemy and the entire Sol System.
On Earth its sorcerers and other magic users are trapped as the Vampirons make their move. A lone survivor from a parallel Earth heralds the coming of The Many-Eyed One and the end of everything while a young hero traverses interstitial time and space attempting to slow down the coming while working on a plan –a plan that may fail.
A death tolls rise it becomes clear that some world leaders have thrown their lot in with the Vampirons and the betrayals begin.
In a small park in England a small group of heroes meet for what could be one last time as the Many-Eyed One arrives on Earth.
Is this the end of Mankind?
The Green Skies has been called “an epic scale story with twists and turns at every point” and in the Black Tower Universe if you did…there is no coming back.
NOT final cover
