INFESTATION: OUTBREAK #4. SEPTEMBER 2011. FIRST PRINTING. © 2011 Idea and Design Works, LLC. Groom Lake © 2011 Chris Ryall, Lorelei Bunjes, and Idea and Design Works, LLC. CVO ® and © 2011 Idea andDesign Works, LLC. The CVO logo is registered with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. IDW Publishing, a division of Idea and Design Works, LLC. Editorial offices: 5080 Santa Fe Street, San Diego CA 92109. Anysimilarities to persons living or dead are purely coincidental. With the exception of artwork used for review purposes, none of the contents of this publication may be reprinted without the permission of Idea and DesignWorks, LLC. Printed in Korea. IDW Publishing does not read or accept unsolicited submissions of ideas, stories, or artwork.

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P revious ly, in INFESTATION...

After the Infestation, magic wasaltered greatly, resulting in bothCVO agents Britt and Crossabsorbing all of CVO’s magic-tech“Artillica.” They just discoveredthat when they’re together, they canaccomplish great things with theArtillica inside them both. Whichwould’ve been good news hadAgent Cross not just had his newlytechno-organic, non-beating vampiricheart torn out of his chest by anangry alien. While trapped in hellalongside the rest of CVO―minusYumiko the snake-changer, whowas struck dead momentsbefore―surrounded by scores ofevil aliens and vengeful demons.Which makes you realize that a lothappened last issue, but even moreis going to happen here, as webarrel along toward the conclusionof our tale, which answers thequestion “did they really retool CVOjust to kill off all of the team’smembers?”

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Cover AArt by David Messina

Cover BArt by Davide Furnó

Incentive CoverArt by David Messina

Colors by ScarletGothica

Written by Chris Ryall and Tom Waltz • Art by David MessinaColors by ScarletGothica • Inks by Gaetano Carlucc iLetters by Chris Mowry • Edits by Bobby Curnow

CROSS - CVO FieldCommander. Now imbuedwith the power of all knownARTILLICA (magicallyenhanced technology).

OVERMARS - Director ofCVO. Struggling tostrengthen and maintainCVO as an effectiveoperation.

BRITT - CVO soldier.Recuperating from theinfluence of theUndermind. Currentpowers unknown.

BENNY - Former nerd,present-day zombie withfree will intact. Expert onArtillica. Lost his armduring INFESTATION.

BOOLS - CVO soldier.Does not work well withothers.

NIKODEMUS - Hard torile CVO Demon Consultant.

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