Orphans

A NEW SCIENCE FICTION EPIC FROM THE MIND OF STAN LEE!

Fromthe mind of legendary comics creator Stan Lee, the architect of the MarvelUniverse, comes Alliances: Orphans, a brand-new original graphic novel set inthe New York Times best-selling Alliances universe, co-written by Lee with LukeLieberman (Red Sonja) and Ryan Silbert (The Coldest Case).

This cosmic adventurefeatures fully painted artwork by Bill Sienkiewicz, who handles the prologue andcover, and Szymon Kudranski.

Orphans blasts readers into the heart ofour galaxy alongside William Ackerson, a man lost in space on a quest to findthe source of his uncanny abilities.

As gravity waves ripple across reality,warping time and space, he meets the Orphans.

They are each the last of theirkind, all their kin having been wiped outby the alien Hive: Little Boy, theirgiant childlike leader; Haze, a caustic creature of pure vapor; Rascal, aself-loathing zealot with dark secrets; and Critter, a being that's equal partsmonster and puppy.

This ragtag group find themselves in over their headswhen their space-heist is hijacked.

They have a stowaway with her own agenda:Samsi, the fearsome survivor of a civilization that once ruled thegalaxy.

Orphans is a fast-paced, intergalactic treasure hunt thatexplodes the Alliances universe into the cosmos.

It introduces an extraordinaryband of lone survivors, that must become a family to save the very fabric ofreality.