It’s not much to go on but Bleeding Cool is reporting that Dark Horse will be introducing Prometheus characters to their Alien comics:
“While I have no finalised details in terms of the creative team, but I understand that much in the same way Dark Horse expanded the lore of Aliens with their line of comics from the eighties to the current decade…!”
It’s not much to go on, expanding a little further from a previous article: “Dark Horse Comics looks like they’ll be launching a brand new line of Aliens titles.. But intriguingly they will be adding the characters from Ridley Scott’s Prometheus into the fold.”
Dark Horse haven’t released an Aliens series since 2009 and I’ve been keen to see where they’d take Prometheus if they did expand. Thanks to VikingSpawn for the news.
So does this go in the Aliens collection, or its own?
http://www.bleedingcool.com/2013/07/19/dark-horses-promethea-comic-ongoing-halo-and-gal-simone-tomb-raider/
'bout time!
http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=46690
I bet the Prometheus news will be spread out in the next couple days.
#sdcc
Ive enjoyed some of the novels...maybe the comics, back in the day and that was off to a great start and then became terrible with a diamond in the VERY rough, here and there. The latest comics have been mostly terrible with the exception of the Fast Track To Heaven book but that went no where... Otherwise yeah, most expanded universe stuff has been awful.
Really?....if that's the case..then stop reading the comics, novels and playing the video games....cause nothing will ever be as good or bad as the original films...perhaps it's best if nothing NEW is ever done....
So it sounds to me like they are just introducing the Engineers, the Black Goo, creatures and probably the Deacon into their latest Aliens comics. Im sure its not a sequel in the truest sense of the word. Just an attempt to utilize that film to expand the comics.
It would be cool if they made some sort of official sequel, in the expanded universe, but then again A:CM....REMEMBER!!!?
As far as I'm concerned the Alien films exist and everything else is just fan-fiction. However, over-glorified.
Although depending on how much Dark Horse pays for the Star Wars license, it might make more financial sense for them to let DH keep paying them to license it, I dunno.
One of the editors recently mentioned at a panel that they have the Star Wars license at least into the end of 2014. Nothing has been announced on what happens after that yet. I think with the 20 year history of Dark Horse publishing the books so well, they have an edge at renewing the license. There's about a year and and half of comics left. But with Marvel being Marvel, I dread it if they get the line at 2015. Hopefully not and the books stay put at Dark Horse.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/ridley-scotts-prometheus-continue-comic-579864
In other news, though, Halo just made the transition from Marvel to Dark Horse. So maybe Halo will become one of Dark Horse's main titles. They could start doing more with Serenity as well.
What's happening with Star Wars?
The 'hey day' of books and comics was back when you were in diapers, kiddo.