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Strikeforce: Morituri
"In Earth's final hours, they stand to defend her. They sacrifice their lives that others might live. They are the soldiers who protect the planet against the marauding Horde that lays siege to it. They call themselves "We who are about to die." They are...Strikeforce: Morituri!"
It is the future. Earth is being subjugated by a plundering alien race known only as the Horde. Earth's government is desperate and turns to Dr. Tuolema, creator of the Morituri process. The process grants it's subjects super human powers but decreases their lifespan. Each subject has no more than a year to live. When you've given up everything, you're capable of anything.
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Enrique Acosta sent in images and information on Strikeforce: Morituri, along with the following comments
"This was Camus' "the Plague" meets Marvel comics. Essentially we are all going to die but a plague or an invasion or a shortened lifespan really bring that into focus. It had a lot of shortcomings (lack of character development and huge plot holes) but at the same time was a very engaging read. The enemy where more than just a faceless attacking alien race. They felt real and had a culture and looked on humans as merely animals. They actually felt much more like a real culture than say the Skrull or the Klingons. As you can imagine with all the death scenes the book was chock full of pathos, but as time went on and characters got replaced they seemed to take less time with them and they began to feel less real. Also very few of the characters actually died in action, most (about 99%) simply succumbed to the process or where killed by fellow members. But on the good side they all looked like real people, not like comic book characters. Their faces were asymmetrical and they had funny noses or no chin or were skinny. They looked like people you'd actually meet on the street. Unfortunately everything I liked about the story was taken away once they changed creative teams with issue 20. They stopped focusing on the aliens, brought in another alien race that had even less personality, and started focusing on how the government was screwing with people instead of fighting the war. For all it's problems it's a really fun read (up to issue 19) and here in the states you can still find it in the 25 cent boxes at most conventions."
Personally, I liked the new stuff as well, under writer James Hudnall, but Enrique is right to say it wasn't the same series any more.
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