In celebration of Alien Day, Dark Horse Comics posted a single panel from an upcoming yet unannounced project. They included the caption:
“You may think you know what happens next, but you don’t.
Find out more in July…”
This panel obviously depicts the opening sequence of Alien³, but the tagline that Dark Horse shared suggests this may not be a telling of the Alien³ story that we know. We’ll definitely be keeping an eye on this one.
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Lol
"Right"
SM's freaking out again lol.
Just trying to piece together and make sense of this shithole plot of an Alien 3 and that book with Ripley that was written between the Alien and Aliens timelines. Good luck explaining this shitline.
Prequels Expendable.
"Bullshit!"
At the end of the Dust to Dust paperback.
They wake up from their cryotubes, have a meal, no speech bubbles, just nice art and then Hicks looks at the row of cryotubes and sighs- visibly upset he turns around with the other two and walks to the opposite side of the room. They then get into the Alien-style cryotubes. As the hatches seal, a notification pops up on a nearby CRT-style console;
FOREIGN LIFEFORMS(S) DETECTED.
What would be the point when they all have a clause in their contract saying they have to investigate ET signals, thus potentially exposing them to all sorts of nasties.
It seems logical that David never succeeded in his overall plans. As earth can be seen to be safe and sound in Aliens 86, and even resurrection has human beings in it who make no mention of earth being anything but a shitehole, This was all quite a many years after Covenant. So something or someone must've gotten to him. I doubt he took up crocheting on Origea 6 and just never looked back.
Well, perhaps Ripley left a banana peel on the floor before going under. Hicks wakes up for his mid-journey pee, slips on the banana, knocks his head on Newts cryo-tube console, and thus accidentally activates the biohazard containment protocols therein.
Now that would be perfect. Although I think he could do wonders for the Ward draft as well
We've still got another month to go. If we're learning about it in the July solicitations I'm expecting a December release date.
Just imagine something along the lines of a Jockey-Guardian. Some kind of a semi-sentient biomechanoid robot that get's turned like a security system. So the humans are dealing with an alien, but also this thing that's on the look out for alien and human alike.
That probably sounds crappy but i would have prefered a direction like that after Aliens. Explore more of the jockeys civilation as designed by Giger. Leave them mysterious and wiped out.
As much as I enjoy the prequels, its not the direction i would have gone with the back story to the original space jockey from Alien.
Having now read the second draft I'd agree with that. In the first it makes sense why they go to Defcon 1 so quickly once shit hits the fan whereas in the second draft it feels a bit too much like they're still reacting to those original events rather than the revised version. Had it gotten to a third draft things might have evened out a bit more.
I do like the scale of the first draft compared to the second, certainly in terms of the Anchorpoint station itself. In the first one it houses hundreds of people and has big malls and social spaces and stuff, whereas in the second it seems like the only people on board are the ones we meet in the story. Hopefully it's the first draft that's being adapted here if only for the scale and the insanity, since as you say, the second one is definitely a lot more toned-down. I still don't really like the idea behind the "New Beast", but as a crazy "what if?" comic I say go nuts.
It's particularly jarring when you look at the way Cameron basically went out of his way to line his movie up with Ridley's.