Millennia after King Midas accidentally transformed the Earth into gold and killed all life on the planet, fugitives from an oppressive galactic civilization arrive, seeking to use his still-intact corpse as a weapon.
ComicsAlliance called it "funny, imaginative and remarkably dramatic" and "probably North's most serious work to date".
[1] Las Vegas Weekly praised the "relaxed, witty style" of the dialogue, but noted that the story had "more comedy and probably more fantasy (...) than hard science [fiction]".
[2] At Comic Book Resources, Kelly Thompson lauded it as "absolutely engaging and heart-stopping", with protagonists who are "charming, lovable, and desperately heroic", and art that was "clean and crisp, with an emphasis on excellent character acting and smooth functional storytelling";[3] Thompson did, however, fault the series' conclusion as "a bit of a deus ex machina", saying that since the story "relied heavily on science and smart decisions", it was "frustrating" to have gods appear, even if they had been established as part of the initial worldbuilding and do not actually "save the day".
He has credited the experience of writing that script (which he describes as having had a "really cool" story, but "cardboard [characters] I didn't like") as having given him the confidence to accept Boom!