- Homicron
"Homicron" is a French
comic book character created byLina Buffolente for French publisherEditions Lug in1972 .Homicron is an alien from planet Alpha, whose inhabitants have the power to turn into energy beings to explore the cosmos. To save the American scape capsule Apollo XIX, Homicron becomes trapped on
Earth . He merges with the body ofastronaut Ted White, who otherwise would have died from a heart attack. Using an energy transformer designed by girlfriend physicist Rita Tower, Ted White turns into Homicron to fight the alienshape shifter s Kyrosians who threatens Earth. He is assisted byLatino teenager Domingo Lopez.Eight episodes of "Homicron" were originally published in the digest-size
magazine "Futura" Nos. 1-8 in 1972. The series was then discontinued.The character returned in
2002 in "Fantask " No. 1-5, before migrating to "Strangers" No. 1, in a series of new adventures, written byJean-Marc Lofficier and drawn byJean-Jacques Dzialowski . There, the alien force that is Homicron migrated to the body of Rita Tower, before joining a team ofsuper-heroes comprised of other aliens residing on Earth. Homicron's last appearance was in "Strangers" No. 9 in2003 .Homicron is now part of
Hexagon Comics which plans to publish collections of his adventures translated into English.External links
* [http://www.coolfrenchcomics.com/homicron.htm Homicron entry at Cool French Comics]
* [http://www.hexagoncomics.com/homicron.htm Homicron entry on Hexagon Comics site]
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