After spending much of 2012 absent from comic shelves, artist Peter Snejbjerg is coming back with a vengeance this year with not one, but two new projects.

In addition to returning to the Mignola-verse with a new B.P.R.D. series, in February Snejbjerg will debut a graphic novel series with writer M. Jerry Frissen called World War X: Hélius. It's set in a near-future story in which the International Space Station breaks communication with Earth, leaving the people on the ground at a loss for why. As it turns out, a bizarre alien life form has awoken from a deep slumber and set it sights on Earth -- beginning with the ISS. The only man with the potential to fend off this alien threat is a man named Hélius, who may not be as human as he looks.

"[World War X: Hélius is the] first of a series of 3, out from Le Lombard!," Snejbjerg posted on his website. "What, it's in French, you say? You can't read that? Sure you can, don't be silly. Otherwise you'll just have to find an English-language publisher and beat them 'round the head with rolled-up copies of Secret Wars, untill they give in and put it out in a language you can."

As Snejbjerg playfully explains, there are no announced plans for World War X: Hélius  to be translated for English-speaking audiences. Although Le Lombard has brought some of its books out for British and American readers, the publisher's track record is rather spotty.

Here's a trailer Le Lombard released to announce World War X: Hélius: