This Sunday I’m thankful for Alien Legion comics.
I mean, look at these magnificent bastards!:
I collected it as it was coming out in the 1980s and -90s. It was such a fun read!
About a decade ago I tracked down a few of the compilations and graphic novels. I still pull them out once in a while and flip through my favourite pages. Good stories illustrated with great art.
Comic Vine has a nice gallery of Volume One’s 20 issues.
Cover Browser has a listing of Volume Two’s 18 issues.
It’s always baffled me how it never got an animated series, along the lines of Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles. It’s too bad Mainframe didn’t get to produce a show of it. I think it’s better suited to a long-form serial rather than a film. But, hopefully we’ll get at least one or the other eventually.
Now, if you want to game with Force Nomad, fortunately you’re spoiled for choice.
First up, Tangent Miniatures. Theirs start HERE on Space and Science Fiction, page 2 and continue on page 4 and page 5.
Tangent also have a Legionnaires Assemble – The Alien Squadron deal HERE. Sadly there’s no photo.
And I tried to buy them but was told they no longer do mail order, well not international anyway. They only sell at shows. So that’s that for me.
The other range is by Checkpoint Miniatures. Thus:
These I have a number of. Good figs. Sadly, Checkpoint don’t make a Sarigar analogue.
My favourite from this range is the Lord of Xaam. Pretty big title, right? And he is listed as being 28mm scale, but when I got him I discovered — happily — he’s really only about 20mm tall. So a while later I ordered two more because three of them are perfect for The Iks.
Aren’t these little dudes great!?
