Earlier this week Dark Horse Comics’ solicitations for April were released, giving us our first look at the synopsis and cover art for the fourth and final issue of Aliens: Resistance! Beware spoilers.
Amanda Ripley and Zula Hendricks are engaged in a desperate battle on the jungle moon, losing the fight against genetically modified Aliens and synthetics for survival. One desperate, last-ditch, option remains, and the two women are forced to decide how much of a sacrifice they are willing to make.
In addition to Roberto De La Torre’s cover art below, you can also check out Tristan Jone’s awesome variant cover art! The fourth issue is currently expected to drop on the 24th of April, just before 2019’s Alien Day!
If you haven’t already, you check out the solicitations for the second and third issue. The first issue was released yesterday is now available to purchase! What did you think of Amanda Ripley and Zula Hendricks’ return? Let us know below!
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Because I don't see one, I think taking it seriously is evidently a bit of a one trick pony. Maybe I'm wrong and we'll get a good, serious Predator film or game in the future though.
Predator could do much the same, OR smaller scale horror-action more in tune with the original, either's good IMO.
I extrapolate in the YouTube comments on why exactly I believe there is a market, I don't think it's a mere coincidence that both of the best recent Alien entries are ALIEN entries, not ALIEN$ entries. Not to degrade the work of anyone on the comics now, in the past or the future.
It's more in the spirit of the work, for instance- despite being titled Aliens: Dead Orbit, Dead Orbit is more Alien than Aliens- don't be fooled. As is Alex White's The Cold Forge and obviously Isolation.
Feel free to screen cap the comments and harass those two if you like, but I doubt the fanbase could convince them the market exists even if we all messaged them at the same time. But maybe we should anyway.
I would honestly love nothing more than to do that book. I've got a few surprises up my sleeve for it, too, so with any luck, we can get it to happen. Like I said in the podcast -- polite requests to Spencer and Randy to let me do the graphic novel might help If there's a market for an ALIEN book over an ALIENS series, they need to know.
As for the "Egg on the Sulaco"
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Regardless, I'd love to see your ideas about the Alien come to fruition in that hypothetical Graphic Novel,
I think you hit the nail on the head with how the Pathogen should relate to them, and the caste system.
Thanks man! Not so much optomistic, because they're both f**king dreadful. Both of them. And honestly, AVP is a broken concept. Great in theory but yet to be done compellingly. I only say AVPR is a silent movie because I literally don't give a f**k about what any human on screen says, so they may as well be silent. I'm only in it for the Wolf Predator, because I hate the Alien designs in that film as well.
Fair cop; I remembered after, but still, this is some bullshit clunk...
https://i.stack.imgur.com/i5EX3.gif
I think that TRJ is 100% on the money, but optimistic about any quality AVP/AVPR has,
if any of the films would actually work as an Arthouse Silent film; it's Prometheus.
This guy gets ALIEN more so than anyone else that has worked on the franchise,
other than maybe Alex White.
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I have to correct Tristan Jones on something, the Queen is shown exiting the Elevator "Close your eyes baby."
Then, the Dropship arrives and the landing gear catches on debris in one of it's front two landing gear struts,
the Queen gets on the third Landing strut at the back of the Dropship.
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The Theatrical Version's superior.
Toward the end of the first level, Amanda says that
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Then the whole game proceeds to show how Amanda got out of that situation with the intention of going to Earth.
I'm not sure how much more information about the gap between Isolation and Resistance we really need. Personally, all I wanted to know was how Amanda got out of the pickle she was in at the end of Isolation, and I got my answer.
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It doesn't, not really.
It establishes Amanda Ripley
wanted to go to Earth, and viola
Resistance.
But character depth?
I hope the novel will do.
Those first few pages with the Cityscape views were fantastic. Reminded me of a storyboarded movie intro with the opening credits.
I think she's presuming that the Instagram posts reflect actual events in the story.
I was replying to this, saying how the ideas of covering up both incidents aren't comparable.
There's far more people involved in Resistance already than what's depicted in James Cameron's film.
All that is in Resistance?
Carter Burke to send colonists out to investigate the Derelict.
A USCM team disappears,
Carter Burke disappears.
The Colony disappears.
"System overload, maybe."
The incident in -Resistance requires:
Individuals to obtain the Alien.
Somewhere to store the Alien.
Individuals to breed the Alien.
Individuals to develop the technology for deployment.
Someone to fly the dropship to deploy on the civilians.
Individuals to develop the technology for "Handlers".
River of Pain. Those 2 are removed "offscreen", as well as how it went with the 2 teams that were facehugged after Russ. Its implied the scientists were more interested on getting a live specimen for study than actually saving the host. The author added some WY bad scientists, because adding marines wasn't enough.
Another hugger they try removed by freezing the fingers with nitrozen, they remove a finger without having to deal with acid all over the place, but the hugger cuts the host oxygen in response.
Defiance requires a sequel, one worthwhile reason is Doctor Hollis' fate. The Company. The Alien.
That said they had them at the end of Defiance and again decades later prior to the events of Aliens in Cold Forge.
Ripley and her Queen...
Being that, unless they lose access to all their specimens, there's no real reason to be upset that Ellen Ripley threw herself into a furnace or for the audience to give a toss about the conclusion if they've got a ACM situation going on back there.
Are you suggesting that the events on Fiorina 161-
are ultimately irrelevant in the larger scheme of things
because they have access to the Alien around the same timeframe?
People seem to having great difficulty in separating The Company from its opportunistic employees.
Was it this difficult to get one's head around when Burke attempted to murder people to obtain specimens?