Riccardo Burchielli

"In the near future, America's worst nightmare has come true. With military adventurism overseas bogging down the Army and National Guard, the U.S. government mistakenly neglects the very real threat of anti-establishment militias scattered across the 50 states. Like a sleeping giant, Middle America rises up and violently pushes its way to the shining seas, coming to a standstill at the line in the sand--Manhattan or, as the world now knows it, the...

"For five years, the United States of America has battled the anti-establishment uprising of Middle America's so-called "Free States." This second civil war has done damage across the nation, but no place has been hit harder than New York City. With the U.S. controlling everything to the east and the Free States surrounding from the west, the island of Manhattan has become the hotly contested borderland known as the DMZ. And that's exactly where aspiring...

Volume 2: "Private Zula Hendricks, on a rogue mission to destroy xenomorphs, has escaped a marine raid on a fuel depot in deep space with her crew. In the quiet of space, the team fixes their injuries and damaged ship. But perhaps the crew's biggest obstacle is that one of their own has brought their worst nightmare aboard--inside of them!"--