History ComicBook / Caliban

->''"Oh, the horror and terror and clawing insanity of knowing you're alone: You can run...but eventually you'll blunder into me. No warm bodies to reach out to...your own voice, begging you to quit the fight...I'm one of the things from out in the dark"''

* ActionGirl

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Sanchita survives just long enough to guarantee the alien consciousness' death in the explosion of the ''Caliban'', which also takes out the only evidence humanity's yet found of alien life in the universe. Nomi is the only survivor, set adrift in cryogenic sleep, with a distress beacon. From what San said, it's only a matter of time until someone rescues her. In addition, San's sacrifice has saved the human race.]]
* BodyHorror

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Canny is standing in a passageway when it's bisected by the alien ship, and ends up with half his body occupying the same space as the ship's bulkhead. He lives just long enough to die with Malik holding his hand.
** Pierce [[spoiler: is chosen for the alien's experiment to see how much a human body can take. When she's found at the end of issue #3, most of the bones in her body are broken but she's still alive.]]

* DeadpanSnarker: Mac.
* FullFrontalAssault: Karian, in the final issue.
* IronicEcho: [[spoiler: During her final fight with Karien, Sanchita lands a hit on him that mimics how he killed his first human victim: throwing him through a hatch into the aliens' "storage room," then landing on him with both feet.]]
* MistakenForGay: In an InUniverse case of LesYay, most of the crew thinks Nomi is involved with Malik. Malik ''is'' a lesbian and interested in Nomi, who had no idea. By the end, it's unclear whether Malik's feelings are reciprocated.

* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: Nomi writes in issue #1 that her great-grandmother was alive during the Space Race, which means ''Caliban'' can't be set too much later than the mid-21st century.
* VasquezAlwaysDies: [[spoiler: Well, everyone except Nomi dies in the end. The more capable and action-oriented Malik and Pierce are among the casualties.]]

-->--'''"Karien"''', to '''Nomi'''

* AmbiguouslyBrown: Sanchita Malik could be from pretty much anywhere.

* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: Nomi writes in issue #1 that her great-grandmother was alive during the Space Race, which means ''Caliban'' can't be set too much later than the mid-21st century.

''Caliban'' is a seven-issue comic book series from Creator/AvatarPress, written by GarthEnnis with art by Facundo Percio.

->''"Oh, the horror and terror and clawing insanity of knowing you're alone: You can one...but eventually you'll blunder into me. No warm bodies to reach out to...your own voice, begging you to quit the fight...I'm one of the things from out in the dark"''

''"Oh, the horror and terror and clawing insanity of knowing you're alone: You can one...but eventually you'll blunder into me. No warm bodies to reach out to...your own voice, begging you to quit the fight...I'm one of the things from out in the dark"''

* IronicEcho: [[spoiler: During her final fight with Kurien, Sanchita lands a hit on him that mimics how he killed his first human victim: throwing him through a hatch into the aliens' "storage room," then landing on him with both feet.]]

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Sanchita survives just long enough to guarantee the alien consciousness's death in the explosion of the ''Caliban'', which also takes out the only evidence humanity's yet found of alien life in the universe. Nomi is the only survivor, set adrift in cryogenic sleep, with a distress beacon. From what San said, it's only a matter of time until someone rescues her. In addition, San's sacrifice has saved the human race.]]

* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: Sanchita survives just long enough to guarantee the alien consciousness's death in the explosion of the ''Caliban'', which also takes out the only evidence humanity's yet found of alien life in the universe. Nomi is the only survivor and is set adrift in a cryogenic sleep pod, with no guarantee anyone will ever make it out to rescue her.]]

''Caliban'' is a seven-issue comic book series from AvatarPress, written by GarthEnnis with art by Facundo Percio.

* [[spoiler: DownerEnding: Sanchita survives just long enough to guarantee the alien consciousness's death in the explosion of the ''Caliban'', which also takes out the only evidence humanity's yet found of alien life in the universe. Nomi is the only survivor and is set adrift in a cryogenic sleep pod, with no guarantee anyone will ever make it out to rescue her.]]

[[spoiler: The alien ship's only living inhabitant is a creature that can jump between organisms, possessing them utterly. It augments the body of Kurien, the most despised member of the ''Caliban's'' crew, and sets about hunting down the other survivors to learn more about its next planned slave species: humanity.]]

The least popular member of the ''Caliban's'' crew, Karien, runs across a desiccated corpse aboard the alien ship that crumbles to dust. Soon, Karien is augmenting himself with the use of the aliens' technology and hunting down the other members of his crew.

* CrapsackWorld: Earth is described by Nomi as "a tumor breathing through a smokestack"; the universe is largely empty; humanity has effectively infinite resources but can't yet expand beyond Earth due to a lack of useful habitats.

* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: Nomi writes in issue #1 that her great-grandmother was alive during the Space Race, which means ''Caliban'' can't be set too much later than the mid-21st century.