As a medium, comic books have the potential to expand our imaginations with never-before-seen visuals and unthinkable concepts.

But they can also get small and down-to-earth, boring into real-life issues and everyday struggles.

Now Image Comics is publishing the comic in physical form, as a collectors edition rolling out this month.

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Check it out below, along with scenes from the first two issues ofBarrier.

What do you like about working together?

I think thats the reason Brian came up with the concept forBarrier.

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We also see the American immigration debate from two opposite sides in the Liddy and Oscar characters.

Our only starting point was simply to make them as alien and different from human beings as possible.

VAUGHAN:As always, Marcos is far too modest.

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New kinds of aliens are fun to imagine, but maddening to actually bring to life.

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Barrier Issue #217

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