After reading Vertigo’s Dominique Laveau: Voodoo Child I was a bit trepid about Saucer Country, but Paul Cornell and Ryan Kelly pulled out all the stops to create an enjoyable extraterrestrial political romp that is sure to please indie fans.
Essentially, Saucer Country concerns Governor Arcadia Alvarado, her confidants, and staff as they begin to gear up for her bid for U.S. Presidency. The twist on the whole affair is that the evening before she tosses her hat into the ring she is abducted by aliens. At first she is stunned in disbelief (as anyone would be), and tries to rationalize her experience with a myriad of plausible excuses, but as the comic wanes she begins to realize the truth about what happened. This leads to a dramatic and somewhat unexpected conclusion, which I will keep hush, hush so that you can check it out for yourself.
The writer of Saucer Country, Paul Cornell, is no stranger to science fiction and aliens; he penned the first Stormwatch story arc than spun out of DC’s new 52, which centers on an intergalactic space station that harbors all sorts of alien life. Here, Cornell provides a lighter touch to Saucer Country by grounding the science fiction aspects of the story in the day-to-day, tumultuous on goings of current American politics.
Rather than opening with an obvious alien abduction scene, Saucer Country begins at the moment Governor Alvarado is returned. This leaves the aliens, as well as their intentions, in a sort of gray area that can be tweaked and altered as the series goes on to add to the mystery.
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