His philosophy is Platonic, socialistic and fascistic at the same time - the fate of the individual is unimportant, only the fate of the species matters. If Doomlord judged humanity as unfit of stewardship of Earth, or to pose a potential risk to the larger interstellar community, he would destroy it – the billions of innocent human deaths being inconsequential, as 'The fate of the individual is unimportant when the survival of the species is at stake.' He viewed Harvey's attempts to stop him as an amusement, this was the only reason he did not kill him.ĭoomlord was thus established as an extremely ruthless, even fascistic, 'space vigilante' who would think nothing of genocide as long as the means justified the ends. However, this did not extend to his human form and Harvey took advantage to shoot him with a gun.īut Doomlord exhibited a third alien ability - to pass his 'life force' to another person, and then parasitically grow inside and eventually 'take over' as if he had absorbed them.ĭoomlord manipulated Harvey into a trap, and explained his 'dread mission' as a 'Servant of Nox' - he was to be sole judge, jury, and executioner on humanity's right to exist, using the identities of prominent businessmen, politicians, scientists, and other members of society's 'elite' as stepping stones to gather evidence. Doomlord also seemed invulnerable to harm. Harvey futilely attempted to stop Doomlord, but was unable to convince anyone else of the alien's existence. In this way, he could move freely amongst human society, leaving only a trail of missing persons as he abandoned each identity for a new one. He would then disintegrate their corpse with his energiser ring, and then use another alien ability – to shapeshift his form to resemble his absorbed victim, and thus impersonate them flawlessly. Over the next few issues, Harvey pieced together what was happening - Doomlord had the power to murder people, and absorb their memories and personality by touch.

'Bob' arranged a meeting with a local Member of Parliament and then disappeared. At the local police station, he discovered Bob alive, laughing at his friend's 'dream' – however, Bob was wearing the alien's 'energiser ring'. He then knocked Harvey unconscious, who awoke to find himself alone. He described himself as 'Doomlord – servant of Nox, master of life, bringer of death!' Doomlord then killed Bob by seemingly merely grasping Bob's head in his hands.

The meteor was in fact a spaceship bringing a sinister robed alien to Earth. The story tells of how journalist Howard Harvey and a policeman friend, Bob Murton, witnessed an apparent meteor falling into local woods. Like many of the strips then published in Eagle, it was made up of black-and-white photographs featuring models and actors, with text boxes and speech and thought balloons. The strip originally appeared as a 13-part story in the first 13 issues of the re-launched Eagle, and was science horror in tone.

Harrow County, Vol. 1 by Cullen Bunn