| The Liberators | |||||||||
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 Shanni of the Liberators on the cover ofWarrior #22; art byGeoff Senior. | |||||||||
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| Publisher | Quality Communications | ||||||||
| First appearance | Warrior #22 (September 1984) | ||||||||
| Created by | Dez Skinn John Ridgway | ||||||||
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The Liberators was ascience fictioncomic book story based on concepts created byDez Skinn andWill Simpson for the Britishanthology titleWarrior. It was among the first mainstream comic strips written byGrant Morrison.
The series was intended as a far-future continuation of Skinn's proposed shared continuity 'Warrior-verse', established in theBig Ben strip which also ran inWarrior.The Liberators first featured inWarrior #22, cover dated September 1984 in a stand-alone story called "Death Run", written by Skinn himself and drawn byJohn Ridgway, the scripting of the series was handed over to Grant Morrison. Morrison's first 5-page installment, "Night Moves", saw publication inWarrior #26, which would be the final issue of the series[1] Unusually, "Night Moves" was a prequel to "Death Run".
After Quality Communications took overFleetway's overseas licence fromEagle Comics, Skinn announced aLiberators series in 1986.[2][3] However, the title would not appear.
In 1996 a previously unpublishedLiberators strip by Morrison and Ridgway, "Angels and Demons", was published alongside a reprint of "Night Moves" in theWarrior Spring Special, issued as a flipbook withComics International #67. The introduction for the story claimedBogey also shared a timeline withThe Liberators andBig Ben.[1]
In 2470,London has been devastated by shape-shifting aliens called Metamorphs, who have the technology to turn captive humans into superpowered, mindless Wardroids. Kris leads a misfit band of superhumans to one of the Metamorph's ships, but the mission is compromised when one of their members is revealed to be a Metamorph, and he is captured[4] After the disastrous guerilla assault on one of the invaders' living ships, the protagonists are attacked by the unstoppable Wardroids. Meanwhile, in the ruins of the Houses of Parliament, secrets are unearthed that may be the key to understanding the aliens' true motives.[5] Kris' telepathic sister Shanni leads a desperate assault to prevent her brother being converted into a Wardroid, ending with both groups dying in an explosion.[6]
