Publication History
Warren Ellis announced the project at the 2007 San Diego Comic-Con with the statement: "I've written two hundred pages and I still have no idea what it's about… it's retro-punk, it's near future steampunk" It was launched on February 15, 2008. New installments were released in six full-colour page episodes every week, a schedule that allows the story the chance to grow naturally.
The story grew out of Ellis' question as to what would have happened if the Midwich Cuckoos had survived and grown to "disaffected and confused twenty-one-year-olds." The story builds on the legacy of John Wyndham's style of disaster fiction.
The series ran for 144 episodes, completing on Friday, August 5, 2011.
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