Alien: Isolation’s Amanda Ripley & Aliens: Defiance’s Zula Hendricks are returning for a new comic series titled Aliens: Resistance! Billed as a sequel to both Isolation and Defiance, Brian Wood is returning for scripting duties with artwork by Robert Carey, colours by the returning Dan Jackson and covers by Roberto De La Torre. The legendary Tristan Jones’ is also returning to provide variant cover-art.
SyFy Wire, who made the exclusive announcement, also spoke to Brian Wood about what we could expect from the new series!
“Zula’s story has places it could go and I always wanted to see it continue, even if it wasn’t by my hand. Based on emails and fan art, she connected with people. Resistance also kicks off on Earth, something not really shown in past Aliens works. It’s about the rush of deep space colonization and how the Colonial Marines evolved in response to new threats and situations. Like Defiance, Resistance features the Marines in a big way, but opens things up with the colonists and the political situation surrounding that – plus Aliens, obviously.”
“The Zula we meet in Resistance has found her place – no spoilers – and has moved onto a new phase of her life and with a new purpose – a new mission. Her friendship with Amanda was always more implied than shown, so its been satisfying to properly write that and explore it. They make a great team.”
“Then it continues with the general narrative of Weyland-Yutani’s earliest efforts to exploit the Alien bio-tech,” shared Wood. “This is fairly early on in the overall timeline of the universe, taking place after Alien and right after the Isolation video game but well before Aliens.”
“I realize Weyland’s been a steady presence in all the films and we all know they’re hot to turn xenomorphs into weapons. I find a lot of interesting dramatic meat in these early, “wild west” years for Weyland-Yutani, when they only sorta knew what they were dealing with, and were running secret black sites to run experiments away from prying eyes.”
Aliens: Resistance is set to be a four issue run with the first issue due for release on the 23rd of January 2019. Also to be released around that time is Titan Books and Keith R.A. DeCandido’s Alien: Isolation novel.
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Maybe its just the art style I am not sure but Amanda is looking like she has too much eyeliner. Like her mother she never wore make up as far as I could tell but in this comic, she looks like she wears so much that her eyes look black in one panel.
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Should help make the ride home on the bus bearable in this 46 degree heat (that's celsius). HOT!
(Not that I wrote anything mind you).
Some things are bothering me a little bit.
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I dunno... like others have said, all this happening years before Aliens just doesn't feel right, regardless of how "secret" it is. Its like doubling down on the idea that WY put the colony on lv426 just to look for the alien.
On xenopedia it says 4.
And yet feels like it needed another issue. This felt like #2 to me. I wonder if Blackout or the novel is going to fill in any of the gaps.
I enjoyed it. It's off to a solid start. Really like Carey's art. I was a little unsure about the heavy black outlines in some of the preview art but I'm digging it. I'm curious as to if they'll go into more detail about the new Xeno-synths. I love that Amanda is a claustrophobic now too. I like seeing the emotional fallouts. Definitely looking forward to the next issue.
Even James Cameron took it off for half his Aliens.
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Do we know where they're going yet?
Art is good. Not Tristan good, but good. Scenery is good and it has a very cinematic feel but the characters seem a little static. Ripley and Zula do not really look consistent with past appearances which takes me out of it a little. From what we see of the Aliens, they look pretty good, although missing the pointy 5th dorsal spine.
I'm invested though, so looking forward to next issue.
Still purple, but I've put posters up everywhere. No escalators though.
Bought my (old) Spawn AVP figurines from there many (eons) ago. Does it still have that purple paint job and those escalators that don't work (assuming it's on Elizabeth street still)?
I bought all my Giger books from Minotaur.
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I see where your mind is at and I wonder!
https://i2.wp.com/www.adventuresinpoortaste.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/ALRESIS-4-FC-FNL-min.jpg?w=683
I don't know what it is but I really like this one.
Crikey. Wish I still lived in Melbourne ... Minotaur was a regular lunch time stopover for me when I worked in the CBD.
The solicitations for #4 have also gone live. Spoiler warning:
http://www.adventuresinpoortaste.com/2019/01/21/exclusive-dark-horse-solicitations-resident-alien-wyrd-and-calamity-kate/
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Hmmmm...
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Some sneak peeks and a mini-interview.
Brian may have misspoken, but there's no error. Defiance changed a lot during it's gestation, as he alludes to here.
I can't remember if we knew about this before. That's pretty interesting.
So even before its released, there is already an error
Wasn't Amanda's presence in Defiance set before Isolation?
Mixed/negative review.
I hope that's hyperbolic.
Uh-oh.
"One of the highlights of Aliens: Resistance is the magnificent scenery that the characters pass through.
From the vast, empty, planet landscapes to the sprawling cities; the locations set the tone for the comic.
Each section of the narrative starts with an establishing shot that leaves the reader in no doubt
about the type of world the characters inhabit. It is breathtaking and wondrous to behold,
but you also get the impression that danger is just around the corner."
Wow, interesting. Can't wait to see that depicted.
Hope it's as excellent as the article insinuates it is.
But I still worry about the over-arching narrative.
It's a positive one.
https://www.amazon.com/Aliens-Resistance-Brian-Wood/dp/150671126X
throughout the whole series this time.
Is that Amanda or Zula?
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It's really not that kind of story.
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http://www.adventuresinpoortaste.com/2018/12/15/exclusive-dark-horse-march-2019-solicitations-calamity-kate-aliens-resistance-and-more/
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WY being typical bastards, it seems.