V #6

On the Visitor mothership, a doublecross is afoot! Under the guise of a peace conference between humans and Visitors, Diana has drugged an ardent representative of the human race named Earl Meagan. If it sounds an awful lot like Carl Sagan, give yourself a cookie! This advocate for peace is a Sagan archetype, even to the point of being an astronomer.

Anyways, Diana plans to brainwashed Meagan in her torturous conversion chamber to make him pro-Visitor. While at the same time, Meagan has a miniature nuclear bomb implanted in his neck and it's primed to go off shortly.

Julie and Donovan plan a rescue aboard the mothership. Though, if they'd just wait a little bit, their Visitor problems would be eradicated. Although, I can see where if you kill off Diana, then another, more deadlier leader might rise to power and make things much worse for the human race. 

Meanwhile, Ham and Chris are initiating plans to shut down the Visitor food processing plant. As I mentioned, earlier, the visitors were force feeding humans in a twisted twist on the term 'fat farm.' Visitor scientists are also conducting sickening experiments on humans too. But thanks to Ham and Chris, these researchers from another world are about to get their just desserts.

The interior of this issue claims that Carmine Infantino has returned. Yet, the artwork looks more like that of Infantino assistant Tony DeZuniga. Plus, Infantino isn't listed on the front cover. So, I'm not ready to proclaim his return to this series just yet. 

Still scripting V: The Comic Book is Cary Bates. He's doing on heck of a job. Sure, it's been decades since I last saw the TV show. Yet, what I remember from that series seems to gel quite well with what I remember. Except for 1 thing. Chris only appeared in a couple of episodes of V's TV series. One was a Christmas episode in which a main character died. I'm not complaining that Chris is here. I'm actually glad he is as Chris was one of my favorite characters. I'm just pointing out one way the comic and the show varies.

Worth Consuming!

Rating: 9 out of 10 stars.