Story by Tate Brombal. Art by Gabriel Hernandez Walta. Cover by Gabriel Hernandez Walta.
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 Hernández Walta (New Mutants, X-Men).