You knew it had to come, the day regular pen and ink art was replaced by computer generated images. Sequential art will never be the same.
A munumental undertaking by Misters Gibbons and McKie, the Dome: Ground Zero is a big-budget Hollywood blockbuster special effects extravaganzaa in 64 pages of ink covered paper. It's a mix of Michael Chriton's sphere with James Cameron's The Abyss. It's not a very original story, nor are any of the main characters very well developed. It's literally like one of those Hollywood films. It's obvious that the story is simply meant as a showcase for the computer generated (c-g) artwork, and if it was a film it would be criticized as being a story overshadowed by the special effects.
What happens in the story is a dome appears over a nuclear test site in the Atlantic Ocean. A military crew, and a pair of scientits, are sent in to investigate but contact is lost and strange things begin to appear. Small metallic sentries begin to eliminate the army guys, and the team runs into a doomsday prophet, who's mission is to see the world destroyed.
Things go from worse to even worse as more people are killed, there are traitors in the group, and the aliens are completely misunderstood.
Sure it's trite, but it's full of spirit and adventure, and it's pretty exciting to hold a bit of comics history in your hand.