H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds (comics) H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds (comics) H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds is a comic adaptation of H. G. Wells' "The War of the Worlds" by Ian Edginton and D'Israeli. The same team earlier created the comic "Scarlet Traces", and several characters from it can be seen in this series, as well as this series reusing the designs of the Martians and their machines. In July 2006, Pendragon Pictures announced in a press release that the comic possessed visual similarities to Pendragon's film "H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds". Pendragon set up a website
The War of the Worlds the serialisation in the "New York Evening Journal". "The War of the Worlds" was generally received very favourably by both readers and critics upon its publication. There was however some criticism of the brutal nature of the events in the narrative. Between 1871 and 1914 over 60 works of fiction for adult readers describing invasions of Great Britain were published. The seminal work was "The Battle of Dorking" (1871) by George Tomkyns Chesney, an army officer. The book portrays a surprise German attack, with a landing on the South coast of England, made possible by the distraction of the Royal