Dead Space Comics Vol 1-6
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Dead Space was a 2008 comic book prequel to the video game of the same name. It was published by Image Comics and was written by Antony Johnston with art by Ben Templesmith, Newsarama. An animated version of the comic was available to download via Xbox LIVE, PSN and various game review sites such as Gametrailers.com in summer 2008. The comics in their animated form can be unlocked in Dead Space: Extraction.
A transcript can be read at Dead Space (Comics) transcript.
Backstory
In the distant future, humanity colonized worlds beyond Earth's solar system. Two-hundred years prior, a man named Michael Altman discovered an artifact of unknown origin (Known as 'The Marker') which led him to begin a new religion - Unitology that supposedly taught the truth about human existence. Altman was later killed, allegedly by the Earth Government in an attempt to silence the truth. However, the veracity of this account had yet to be confirmed. In present time, a new Marker was discovered on another colony and strange things are happening among the colonists. The comics started off with Neumann making a video log about what happened in the comic, but the comic drifted away from Neumann's point of view occasionally and featured events where Neumann is not present...
Sergeant Abraham Neumann and Detective Vera Cortez, the operatives from Planetside Security (P-Sec) are investigating a local disturbance at Apartment 23 Row D4 B Block, inhabited by a surveyor named Lisa and her husband, Tom who worked at the morgue. Neumann attempted to open the door and discovered that the pad was inactive. He contacted Marla Janssen at P-SEC who unlocked the door from her end. Neumann and Cortez entered the room which 'stinked' according to Cortez and found blood stains on the wall and floor. Neumann noted that this incident would be the 32nd assault in the past week as it was opposed to three since the colony started. Cortez found Lisa's mangled body which to her shock moved. She called Marla to request a trauma team. Without warning, Lisa's writhing and growling corpse impaled Cortez in the shoulder while Neumann fired his weapon and called for backup....
Chapter One
began with a very bloody Sergeant Abraham Neumann from P-SEC making a security log with blood on the walls all around him. He said that if a planetside survivor found the security log, they are doomed and should not bother to escape. He warned anybody that if they found the log, they are to order the colony to be nuked so 'humanity did not suffer the same fate....
Issue Two
Dr. Tom Sciarello is at a press conference at Union Square mourning the death of Katie, his nurse and assistant of five years. Meanwhile, Sergeant Abraham Neumann and Detective Vera Cortez are seen arresting a lot of miners, and Cortez is later seen in her bedroom taking sedative pills. Tom mentions that her call to P-SEC saved his life and that he would willingly trade it back for hers....
Issue Three While walking down a corridor,
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Sergeant Abraham Neumann comments to Dr. Tom Sciarello how "half the colony is walking around like it's the end of the world".
Sciarello recalls his vision of Katie's ghost: he claims that despite being a lifelong atheist and skeptic and convinced the vision was an hallucination, if he were a spiritual man, he'd be praying right now. Neumann is befuddled how a group of blue-collar miners can get "so worked up over a rock", but Sciarello points out it's the same thing as doing so about a chalice or a scroll...
Issue Four
Issue Four starts with Neumann and Dr. Sciarello walking along a hallway, discussing how things are after the marker has been taken up to the ship. While Neumann states that crimes have gone down, Sciarello replies that "Almost 20% percent of the staff have psych problems". When they reach their destination Neumann wonders "If she's not cured why did [Sciarello] take her out of the secure chambers?". Sciarello replies that "She's not dangerous anymore, but far from cured". We quickly discover that Natalia Deshyanov is inside the room. They enter the room, with Natalia asking "who's the cop?". Neumann notes that "[Natalia] seems kinda cheery for a nut-job". Sciarello answers that "it comes and goes".
Issue Five
The story picks up from where Issue Four left off. Neumann is still confused about the situation with the Marker and what it does. "All right, fine, so it mutates dead bodies, but what killed them in the first place? This... stuff?" Marla replies that she's not sure. She attempts to call the Ishimura but with no luck as the comm is still down...
Issue Six
The final comic begins with the colonist who was investigating an infected body getting impaled by the now-infected person, who has transformed into a Necromorph. Marla and Neumann begin to lead the group away through the Necromorphs, but