A new oversized, hardcover edition of the critically-acclaimed and
award-winning series about presidency and first contact, packed with extras like
creator commentary, sketches, concept art, and more! This third volume collects
the interstitial one-shots focusing on the astronauts of the Clarke-why
they signed up for a one-way trip, and what they hoped to accomplish on their
journey-as well as the mysterious Builders, who are responsible for the
End, a powerful force that hurtles toward Earth and its billions of inhabitants.
President Stephen Blades struggles with how to tell the people of
Earth that most of them won't survive the End. But when he learns that even the
666 humans he hand-picked will fall victim to the End, it seems all hope is
lost. The same can be said for the crew of the Clarke, crash-landed on Mars
after sabotaging the Builders and their escape ship. Now at the mercy of the
Builders, who have followed them to the red planet in order to exact revenge,
Charlotte and Overholt do what they can to keep their crew alive-for as
long as they can hold out.
In the eleventh hour, the future of humankind
will be left in the hands of those who chose to lead.
