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- Referencenod to comics or other movies
- Cameoa familiar face shows up
- Setupplanted now, pays off later
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- Behind the scenesWhere it all began
Dark Horse's Aliens line began in 1988 with the series collected here as Outbreak, written by Mark Verheiden and drawn by Mark A. Nelson.
source ↗ - ReferenceNewt and Hicks, renamed
The first series followed Newt and Corporal Hicks. Since Alien³ (1992) killed them both off, later reprints renamed them Billie and Wilks and recolored the pages.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesThree artists, three looks
Each miniseries has its own look: Mark Nelson on Outbreak, Den Beauvais's paintings on Nightmare Asylum and Sam Kieth on Female War.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesEnd of the Dark Horse era
In 2020 the Aliens comic rights were sold to Marvel, ending more than 30 years of Dark Horse comics.
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- ReferenceDutch's brother
The first story stars Detective John Schaefer, brother of Schwarzenegger's Dutch, facing a Predator in New York during a heat wave.
source ↗ - ReferenceThe movie's in here too
Alongside the original miniseries, the volume includes the two-issue comic adaptation of Predator 2.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesOver a thousand pages
It runs 1,008 pages, with hunts in the American Southwest, Cold War Siberia, Vietnam, World War I and even 1950s Hollywood.
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- Behind the scenesBorn in an anthology
The two creatures first met in Dark Horse Presents #34–36, from 1989 to 1990. Artist and editor Chris Warner is credited with the crossover idea.
source ↗ - ReferenceMachiko Noguchi
The lead, Machiko Noguchi, administrator of the Chigusa Corporation colony on Ryushi, became the central figure of the AvP comics.
source ↗ - ReferenceThe movies went their own way
The films AVP (2004) and Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem (2007) didn't use the comics' settings or stories.
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- Behind the scenesTwelve issues by Brian Wood
Defiance was a 12-issue series launched in April 2016, written by Brian Wood. This volume collects the first half, with art by Tristan Jones.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesA Free Comic Book Day bonus
The volume includes “Extravehicular,” a short story given away on Free Comic Book Day 2016.
source ↗ - ReferenceMarines and synthetics
The lead, Private Zula Hendricks, is a Colonial Marine, the same outfit as in Aliens, traveling with Weyland-Yutani synthetics.
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- Behind the scenesOne artist does it all
James Stokoe wrote and drew all 4 issues himself, in a densely detailed style.
source ↗ - ReferenceSurviving with what's at hand
The hero isn't a soldier but an engineering officer armed with a timer, a utility kit and his own ingenuity, very much in the spirit of the first Alien.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesAn oversized edition
Besides the standard collection, Dark Horse released an oversized hardcover to showcase Stokoe's art.
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- Behind the scenesThe Alien³ that wasn't
Before David Fincher's film, Neuromancer author William Gibson wrote a version of Alien³ centered on Corporal Hicks, who dies at the start of the movie.
source ↗ - ReferenceCold War in space
The Sulaco, carrying the sleeping Ripley, Hicks, Newt and Bishop, is intercepted by the rival Union of Progressive Peoples, and the outbreak hits a station described as a space shopping mall.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesA cover all-star team
Johnnie Christmas adapted and drew it, with colors by Tamra Bonvillain. Variant covers came from James Harren, Daniel Warren Johnson, Paolo Rivera and Tradd Moore.
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- Behind the scenesStar Beast
Dan O'Bannon's script was called Star Beast, and Fox bought it in 1976, three years before Alien opened.
source ↗ - ReferenceNo Ripley
There's no Ripley: the crew includes Captain Chaz Standard and Executive Officer Martin Roby, and the lone survivor is a man. The ship is the Snark, not the Nostromo.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesA “unisex” crew
O'Bannon noted in the script that the crew was unisex and any role could be played by a man or a woman, the idea that opened the door to Ripley in the film.
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- Behind the scenesMarvel's first arc
Bloodlines was Marvel's first Alien arc after acquiring the rights, written by Phillip Kennedy Johnson and drawn by Salvador Larroca.
source ↗ - ReferenceA Bishop-model friend
Gabriel Cruz gets help from a synthetic of the same model as Bishop, the android from Aliens.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesHardcover in Spain
In Spanish, Panini released the volume in 2022 as Alien 1: Linajes, a 160-page hardcover.
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- ReferenceThe Predator goes to the future
Until Marvel's relaunch, every solo Predator comic was set on Earth in the past or present. This was the first to take the hunt into the future.
source ↗ - SetupA familiar name
Even with the reboot, Marvel kept some old continuity: John Schaefer, Dutch's brother from the Dark Horse comics, returns.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesThe team
Ed Brisson wrote the series, with art by Netho Diaz.
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