Anomaly-Graphic Novel from 2012
https://www.amazon.com/Anomaly-Skip-Brittenham/dp/0985334207
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anomaly_(graphic_novel)
- Anomaly is a graphic novel featuring augmented reality, created in part by Brian Haberlin, depicting the adventures of a disgraced soldier on an alien planet.
- The story occurs partly in the 'Conglomerate', a cabal of business corporations ruling a dystopian, interplanetary human society, and partly on 'Planet Anomaly', an Earthlike world populated by multiple hominoid species.
Giants and reptiles are natives to the anomaly :
Synopsis :
" At the beginning of the story, protagonist 'Jon' is an 'Enforcer' (a soldier of the Conglomerate) disgraced by a genocide permitted by himself, assigned as bodyguard to 'Samantha', a Conglomerate official's stepdaughter, who leads an expedition to Anomaly in hope of peaceful first contact, only to be foiled when a native bacterium destroys most of her followers' machinery.
The expedition are thence captured by Muties and recaptured by the People. When ordered either to challenge the warlord 'Caderyn', or swear loyalty thereto, Jon challenges and later vanquishes him. He is then informed by prophetess 'Dagda' that the Muties, under their new leader 'Erebos', intend annihilation of their neighbors, and requests Jon himself to unite the native species, thitherto constantly at war, against them.
Guided by Caderyn and Dagda's pupil 'Aine', Jon does so, while Samantha and polymath 'Tonni' increase the People's counter-offensive power, and Erebos plots to capture the Earthlings' Space Shuttle and invade other planets.
In the story's climax,
the Mutie army is destroyed, while Erebos attempts to seize the
shuttle. Following him, Jon and Dagda kill Erebos and establish peace on
Anomaly. In the celebration that follows, Jon plots to disarm the
Conglomerate by spreading the bacterium which earlier consumed his own
people's technology. "
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