From Jeff Lemires Black Hammer! A groundbreaking new sci-fi action series in the world of the Eisner Award-winning Black Hammer universe, about prejudice, honor, and identity. Mark Markz has found his place on Earth as both a decorated police officer and as the beloved superhero, Barbalien. But in the midst of the AIDS crisis, hatred from all sides makes balancing these identities seem impossible—especially when a Martian enemy from the past hunts him down to take him back, dead or alive. Origin Story for Barbalien. Art by Gabriel Hernandez Walta (New Mutants, X-Men)!

With a borrowed face, shapeshifting Martian hero Barbalien explores the gay night scene and a buried part of himself. But his fractured identity takes another hit when he comes into conflict with his new friends, his fellow police officers, and the murderous lunatic who followed him to Earth. Origin story for Barbalien. Art by Gabriel Hernandez Walta (New Mutants, X-Men)!

Barbalien continues to flee the Martian bounty hunter Boa Boaz—and continues to develop a relationship with a young activist under an assumed identity. But past and present collide when Boa begins targeting people in Barbalien's life.

Shapeshifting hero Barbalien has found happiness in the company of a young gay activist, but discrimination, his own split identity as a cop and vigilante, and the continued rampage of the martian bounty hunter Boa Boaz all threaten to unravel his life.

In this blood-chilling finale, the martian hero Barbalien faces age-old hatred from Mars and Earth as he clashes with the bounty hunter after his head—and tensions finally boil over between his two lives as a police officer and hero, leaving the young man hes come to love in the dangerous crossfire of an inevitable riot.

A groundbreaking new sci-fi action series in the world of the Eisner Award-winning Black Hammer universe, about prejudice, honor, and identity. Mark Markz has found his place on Earth as both a decorated police officer and as the beloved superhero, Barbalien. But in the midst of the AIDS crisis, hatred from all sides makes balancing these identities seem impossible—especially when a Martian enemy from the past hunts him down to take him back, dead or alive. Collects Barbalien: Red Planet #1-#5.