Thanks to Comic Book Resource we have our first look at Aliens: Defiance #1! While Tristan Jones has been teasing fans to snippets of his gorgeous interior artwork via social media for some months, we get our first look at several entire pages of the Dan Jackson coloured interior artwork!
“Battling demons from her past while fighting for her life, Colonial Marine Private First Class Zula Hendricks, in the company of Weyland-Yutani synthetics, is forced to question her strength and loyalty when the discovery of an insidious alien species on a derelict hauler sends her on a dangerous journey across the stars.”
Our first look at the full coloured interior artwork of Aliens: Defiance #1 via Comic Book Resources.
In related news, Aliens: Defiance writer Brian Wood was recently interviewed by Dynamic Forces where he talked about the origins for the series and about the main character, Zula: “She is a young woman, a Colonial Marine who’s fallen on hard times. Barely out of training, she suffers a terrible injury that requires constant physical therapy and a back brace to move around. She’s barely out of her teens and her career seems over. Then this mission comes along, a sort of a second chance, even though she might not see it that way right now.
I always wanted to write a Colonial Marine, but not an 80’s action movie gung ho one like we saw in Aliens, but one closer to the veterans I work out with at my gym, a walking wounded type. I think Zula will be a ground breaking character in that respect – not only a person of color, but a young person with disabilities.”
Thanks to Ultramorph for the news!
We're finally doing a podcast on this so I've re-read the series in 2 sittings over the last couple of days. My opinion has pretty much maintained as above.
Is this supposed to be the same ship?
https://i.imgur.com/q9v3IXA.jpg
They look nothing alike! Maybe I just missed something in the story.
Just reading it again. The ships environmental system was rooted and Zula was addicted to pain medication.
I get that, but Perfect-Organism's right in that it did seem like a big, unintended turn-around in the story. At least, it came across to me that way.
And I seem to recall the Europa was in pretty bad shape too.
Defiance isn't even in the same ballpark.
Aliens Defiance had a wonderful first half. The second half was not as good but was still better than anything in the Aliens CM series.
And maybe I just missed this, but was it hinted at where the aliens came from?
It was taking place in the same time frame as Isolation. So quiet a bit before Aliens
I wouldn't go as far as to say it was pretty much nothing, though.
Though the timeline did seem a little out of wack. Didn't they have this as taking place well before Aliens?
It's a shame this series went from such a promising start to being so much of nothing by the end.
Storywise, the back end of the season does get sloppy. There's really no time for the hugger to finish the business with Hollis, the whole thing with letting the Queen out and then her mysteriously dying despite "not even a scratch" following her fight with the mercs and then they just sort of turn around for home. Granted, I get why and I liked those last few issues of wrap-up but just felt a little bit of a whimper rather than a bang.
I really did love all the characters. It was definitely a great core group. I'd be really interested in seeing a continuation.
I've pre ordered Volume 1 and 2. You mean there's not going to be a Volume 2 now? Do retards run Dark Horse?
PS> I just checked Amazon, it's still available for pre order...hmmm
Aliens: Defiance Volume 2 Oct 10 2017
by Brian Wood and Tristan Jones
Paperback
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Available for Pre-order. This item will be released on October 10 2017.
Seems a bit of a gyp to do a volume 1 then follow it up with a complete collection rather than a volume 2. Bit of a slap in the face to the people who bought the first volume if they then have to re-buy the exact same stuff just to get the second half.
That's a good sign. To be honest though, I'll probably only buy it if there is a decent amount of extra content.
Then don't use sarcasm, its not really polite either
The Burke scene was cut because Cameron didn't like how it turned out.
Sarcasm doesn't translate to text as well as I'd hoped.
I said it was on par with the Lope incident but in terms of weirdness, yes it is like DOTS. A hugger did get on her, this is seen in the next issue during the intro/title/credits part like some sort flashback and I believe issue 12 showed it too, I will double check the latter. I am guessing you believe that she was already impregnated before being attacked by the facehugger swarm, which is fair enough but I don't buy that as there is nothing to prove it though it would be better than the seemingly implantation in moments that is likely what we got and unfortunately Covenant canonized that capability.
Ripley 8 was still mostly human and I think the Aliens never saw her as one of them at all as I believe in early concepts, she was meant to be cocooned when captured. Also there is a difference between someone carrying an embryo and a hybrid, though it is true that a host's dna does get rewritten/altered. Kind of funny though as such a hybrid was created because she was a host first.
I get what you mean but I disagree, the first three films set some rules that were pretty consistent more or less, in all three gestation seems take at least hours, granted the second film does not show much and third fim's beginning seems to interpretable but the extended edition of Aliens as well's bishop's comments imply that facehuggers do not immediately implant the virus, also I believe the Burke scene was cut out because the implantation timing would not have been correct. I would mention the WYR but not sure what the canon status of that anymore.
I would also argue your belief that "no one else takes the lore seriously" as I don't think Huda or Hicks would have been upset with certain Covenant elements if they did not take the lore seriously. And there was plenty more who had issue with it.
I agree with the last bit.
You mean Hollis being attacked by facehuggers? How is that even remotely on par with DOTS? We don't even know what would've happened to Hollis had a hugger actually got her. Maybe it would've just let her go, or maybe it would've implanted another embryo. Ripley was part Alien in Resurrection and she got attacked too. With so many unknown factors there's no established lore (which no one else of course takes seriously...) to break.
You're just awful
Actually...I'm the moron that keeps pre ordering all the comics and their paperbacks and blu rays and movie tickets.
To be fair, I have only read Defiance once or twice I think and I read it fast, so I may not have properly taken it all in but I definitely count the Hollis thing and issue 11 as weirdness.
What does it have in common?
You're not missing anything.
I guess Defiance has more in common with AVP:DOTS than just 12 issues
*Hicks beat me to it
Saw that over the weekend, love it.