In the small U.S. town of Patience, the town revolves around a Doctor, who is not from around here. It’s a town like the suburb in Mumford only the doctor is not a psychologist, he’s an alien. He’s the resident alien of the title, a pointy eared fellow named Harry. He also has an affinity for solving crimes.
Resident Alien: The Suicide Blonde is the latest offshoot of Dark Horse Comics’ Dark Horse Presents monthly anthology series. The newest Resident Alien series is a four-issue mini-series beginning with this month’s Issue #0, which reprints chapters 1 to 3 of the story, originally found in DHP Issues #18-20.
Creators of classic British fare, writer Peter Hogan (2000 A.D., Tom Strong) and artist Steve Parkhouse (Milkman Murders, Doctor Who) team up to continue their earlier four-issue standalone series released this past March as the trade paperback Resident Alien: Welcome to Earth! In his first adventure the extra-terrestrial hero of the story survived when his ship crashed on Earth. Taking on the part of Dr. Harry Vanderspeigle, he was able to mask his appearance using his otherworldly powers. Like E.T. from the movie, he just wants to go home, but he’ll wait in the town of Patience until his friends come to find him, with Everwood-style small town medical crises. Along the way he gets pulled into a murder mystery, which he takes to like Agent Cooper in the town of Twin Peaks. It’s this police procedural drama meets sci-fi genre blend that is taken forward in this summer’s new series.
