London, 1963: the Beatles are about to hit the big time, the Cold War is escalating, and Guido Palmano has just returned from America a changed man. His family canÂ’t quite put their finger on it, but Guido, a former self-obsessed mobster, is a different person. HeÂ’s caring, compassionate, intelligent Â… alien! Now, caught between the dangerous ties to his former life and the political hysteria surrounding a mysterious, crashed spaceship, GuidoÂ’s doing all he can to give his loved ones the best time of their lives before his own time on this planet runs out.

This June, Dark Horse re-presents Illegal Alien, a classic original graphic novel by artist Phil Elliott and James Robinson, Eisner award-winner and League of Extraordinary Gentlemen screenwriter.