Topic: SDCC Alien: Colonial Marines ..scans anyone?

[Griffith]

Lurking around the web and still no scans yet of A:CM from dark horse, not even a preview of the inside art just this http://www.ebay.com/itm/SDCC-Comic-Con-2012-Aliens-Colonial-Marines-Comic-Dark-Horse-Comics-/290750250241 ..can someone deliver please?

[Xenomrph]

Goddamn f**king scalpers.

Assuming we find out the comic isn't coming with some edition of the game, I'll likely buy it too.

[Griffith]

What I found unbelievable is that not a single guy from the avpgalaxy community went to the SDCC and grabbed a copy of the comic book at Sega's booth.

What's the story about?, who's the writer?, who did the ink/art? Aarrghhh!!!!

[Xenomrph]

Well I caved and grabbed a copy on eBay for $7 shipped, seemed a whole lot better than buying it for $15-$20 that other sellers were asking.

[molasar]

Xenomrph, on a scale 1 to 10, how do you rate it?

[Xenomrph]

It's kinda short, but it's pretty neat. I think I'll have to hold judgment until the actual game comes out because I don't know if the comic's story actually ties into the game and its characters, or if it's a sort of generic one-off.

I think I'd have liked it more if I'd actually gotten it for free, but getting it for $7 wasn't bad and I don't regret buying it.

[shadowedge]

Is it the standard 20-24 pages long? Also how good is the art and coloring?

[vikingspawn]

I thought it was cool book.   Actually felt like a spinoff of the Aliens movie.   It's a 12 page story and the other half of the comic has different Aliens art pinups.

[chupacabras acheronsis]

does it have any real title apart from Colonial Marines?

[paxromana]

Xenomrph,

Can you post an image (scan or photograph, whatever you wish) of one page of this comic?, please

I´m interested in buying it, but i´m afraid of artwork.

[scm]

I might scan it eventually, my scanner usually sucks but i'll see if i can get it to work.

[paxromana]

Thanks for your efforts!!!

[Xenomrph]

Sure, I'll try to scan a page or two. I thought the artwork was fine, personally.

The total comic is shorter than your average comic book, and the story itself is pretty short, but there's a lot of neat generic art by a bunch of artists. Most of the generic art seems to focus on one Marine character (a Marine with a beard and a bandana, who also happens to be in the story as well) which makes me wonder if he's a main character in the video game too. I don't remember the story giving him a name.

[bobby brown]

Would love to see some alien art pin-ups

[ikarop]