Alien Legion — cover-titled The Alien Legion for its first series and initial graphic novel — features a military unit, Force Nomad, similar to the French Foreign Legion. Its characters include leader Sarigar, whose lower half is serpentine; the fully humanoid Torie Montroc; and an alien of the Thraxian race, Jugger Grimrod. Primary creator Carl Potts and co-creators Alan Zelenetz and Frank Cirocco developed the concept, and in 1984 Marvel Comics' Epic Comics imprint launched the first of several Alien Legionminiseries and one-shots. Potts said in 2000, The franchise debuted with Marvel/Epic Comics' The Alien Legion #1-20. The 18-issue Alien Legion, minus "The", followed, generally scripted by Chuck Dixon and penciled by Larry Stroman. Afterward came the three-issue Dixon-Stroman miniseries Alien Legion: On The Edge ; the two-issue Dixon-Stroman Alien Legion: Tenants of Hell ; the one-shot cover-titled Alien Legion: Grimrod and copyrighted Alien Legion: Jugger Grimrod, by Dixon and artist Mike McMahon; the single-issue Alien Legion: Binary Deep, by Dixon and Argentine artist Enrique Alcatena; and the three-issue miniseries Alien Legion: One Planet at a Time, by Dixon and pencilerHoang Nguyen. Additionally, Marvel/Epic published two spinoffs: Marvel Graphic Novel #25, released in 1986 and containing the story "A Grey Day To Die" by writers Potts and Zelenetz, penciler Cirocco, and the first series' regular inker, Terry Austin; and the one-shot crossover with another series Law Dog and Grimrod: Terror at the Crossroads. As well, two short stories appeared: the 10-page “Tough Enough”, by writer Dixon and penciler Douglas Braithwaite, in the Marvel/Epic magazine Epic #3 ; and the 12-page “Altered State”, by writer Potts and artist Alcatena, in Heavy Hitters Annual #1. Dark Horse Comics announced it was publishing a new Alien Legion series in 2010 but the series was delayed. Instead of being produced by Dark Horse, the new four-issue series, Uncivil War, was published in 2014 by Titan Comics. The new series was co-plotted by Potts and Dixon, scripted by Dixon, with art by Stroman and Potts.
Collected editions
Some of the stories have been published in trade paperback and hardback form. Alien Legion: Slaughterworld, collects The Alien Legion #1 & 7-11. Checker Book Publishing released the books Force Nomad and Piecemaker, collecting the second series, and Footsloggers, collecting the first six issues of the first volume. Titan Books published trade paperbacks of the On the Edge and Tenants of Hell miniseries. Dark Horse Comics published the Alien Legion Omnibus Volume 1 in December 2009, collecting the first seven story arcs of the original Epic Comics series; and Alien Legion Omnibus Volume 2 in May 2010, rounding out the first series including the graphic novel. Titan Comics began publishing omnibus collections of the original Epic Comics material in 2014. A collected hardcover edition of Uncivil War was published by Titan in February 2015.
