After Alien: Covenant’s release we had the opportunity to speak to Alien: Covenant illustrators Dane Hallett and Matt Hatton. During our chat we talked about their desire to write a David’s Diary, so to speak.
Fast-forward to nearly a year later and that book has been announced! Matt Hatton confirmed the book’s existence on his Instagram page earlier today.
“We’re pretty excited to announce that yes finally there will be a book of David’s studies that Dane and I did for Alien: Covenant. Coming from Titan Publishing. It will be launched and we’ll be doing a signing at SDCC this year! Haven’t seen anything of the book yet but hopefully it will be something cool for all those fans (thank you) that asked for it!”
San Diego Comic Con takes place on the 19th of July. No news as to the worldwide release of the book at the minute.
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Update: Later on during Alien Day, the official Alien Anthology Twitter account also posted about the upcoming book. It will actually be released under the title of Alien: Covenant – David’s Drawings and consist of 2 books that “gives readers an insight into the most intriguing character from the Alien prequels.
The in-universe sketchbook contains over two hundred illustrations from the set and will take you inside the mind of David. Then read Developing the Art of an Android for an interview with Dane Hallett and Matt Hatton, the artists behind all of the beautifully grotesque sketches.”
The book is currently slated for general release on the 4th of September 2018. Now for UK fans, it is now available for pre-order from Forbidden Planet.
Bit annoyed as the top corner of the slipcase was slightly bent in the post. However the books inside are fine. Not gonna fuss too much over it.
Got a reply. Order being processed and they've upgraded me to express delivery too!
Much happier now.
So, should I change my name to TheSailingHopfloof?
"Nutbastard"
That just made me think of this:
https://www.awesomeinventions.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/better-names-more-animals.jpg
I think to come to a decent common name, we may have to take and modify from the taxonomy name.
So two that I have seen are Linguafoeda acheronsis and
Internecivus raptus
So maybe Raptus Acheronsis or merely just one of them because Raptus and Acheronsis could work on its own. Perhaps even just Acheronta
A few mixes such as Racheronsis or Rapturonsis
They would all still seem too taxonomic however.
Oh the Pathogen is Plagiarus Praeportens and the Facehugger is the Manumala Noxhydria.
Blue gives some actual taxonomical names for them and the facehuggers at one point
In The Cold Forge they just call them 'Snatchers'
Dragons.
Lol
How about... an Agrioxenothirio? Or Agriothereum lol. Or Xenodrakos. F it Xenomorph is better.
Although Parasitus sounds good.
Sorry, I couldn't help myself.
The...
Just in case you're wondering and I know no one is, here's terminology I prefer:
The Cavitatem Amnioticam (Zygote/Egg)
Parasitus perfido (Facehugger)
Embryonis parasitus (Classic Chestburster)
Parasitus infantem (New Chestburster)
Parasitus adulescentior (Adult)
Perfectus-Parasitus (Species)
Perfectus-Parasitus procreatrix (Monogyne/Queen)
It's just that James Cameron chose such a unique but memorable word that it got permanently linked with the capital-A Alien as another name for it, independent of its in-context meaning.
If Cameron had used the word "extraterrestrial" in place of "xenomorph", we wouldn't even be having this conversation.
... I guess I need to reread it more carefully then, because I completely missed that.
Don't get me started on how "Xenomorph" can apply to a variety of creatures, contextually within Aliens & A3 it works because it's referred to as "A Xenomorph" which would be correct. But the miscommunication that it's
"The Xenomorph" from then onwards is irritating to say the least.
Give me half an hour or there abouts and I could make more suitable threatening names with the Latin dictionary.
Either that or the Tech Manual.
I hate Ovomorph. I still don't know where the hell that cropped up from.
Dissulto arca
Which means "burst coffin"
-I think that's appropriate.
Following the gothic theme that
"hand of night" implies.
Manumala noxhydria the Facehugger.
Interesting. What are the Ovomorphs? Were they in the film?
So Shaw WAS turned into an Alien? I couldn't tell if that's what happened from David's dialog. Sorry if this has been answered before.
Innocent biological study, into dissection and alteration and then into Elizabeth Shaw.
Also: dat cover tho. DAYUM.
Sent a rather diplomatic email to Booktopia tonight!
One day I'll sit down and enjoy the damn thing!
You seriously need to watch Furious Gods, Prometheus' extras are as extensive and deep as any film in the Anthology.
True! Just find it hard to engage with the related merch when I don't like the overall project.
Case in point - I got the Prometheus 3D Blu-ray solely for the Furious Gods doc, but I've still not got around to watching it
You're allowed to enjoy individual aspects.
Altman be praised.
There's more art than text but still a fair amount of writing. It took me about 4 hours to get through the whole thing and I feel that I rushed through it a bit to be honest.