Interview with Gabriel Hardman (Aliens: Dust to Dust) – AvP Galaxy Podcast #81

Posted February 21, 2019 3:25 PM Corporal Hicks 19 Comments

We have just uploaded the 81st episode of the Alien vs. Predator Galaxy Podcast (right-click and save as to download)! Our latest podcast sees regular co-hosts Corporal Hicks and RidgeTop joined by Gabriel Harman, the writer and artist behind the recent comic series, Aliens: Dust to Dust!

Interview with Gabriel Hardman (Aliens: Dust to Dust) - AvP Galaxy Podcast #81

Carlos D’Anda’s variant cover art for Aliens: Dust to Dust #3.

We discuss the advantages of a single artist & writer, Dust to Dust’s addition to the Aliens lore, designer pigs and Alien hybrids and plenty more! Beware spoilers. You may want to read the series before listening to this.

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Corporal Hicks
Posted Mar 18, 2019, 10:00:36 AM

https://www.avpgalaxy.net/literature/reviews/aliens-dust-to-dust/

My review. We should be recording a podcast later this week too.
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The Old One
Posted Feb 27, 2019, 04:22:36 AM

Correct, perhaps they should do.
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Local Trouble
Posted Feb 26, 2019, 08:53:56 PM

Quote from: The Old One on Feb 25, 2019, 06:59:10 PM
I don't blame them, it's difficult to write around Resurrection. The WYR had the right idea, just say "f**k it. The Company and everything you like about the things in the first three Alien films are back after Resurrection's Auriga failure- it's as if it never happened."

Or they could go with the quasi-UPP angle and just say the company never left in the first place.

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The Old One
Posted Feb 25, 2019, 06:59:10 PM

I don't blame them, it's difficult to write around Resurrection. The WYR had the right idea, just say "f**k it. The Company and everything you like about the things in the first three Alien films are back after Resurrection's Auriga failure- it's as if it never happened."
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Ultramorph
Posted Feb 25, 2019, 03:24:36 PM

The Big Hand Wave!
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Corporal Hicks
Posted Feb 25, 2019, 09:17:02 AM

Dead Orbit was set in 2295 which over a hundred years after the events of Aliens/3. I'm fairly sure it was actually pretty close to the supposed Big Deletion.
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Ultramorph
Posted Feb 25, 2019, 04:46:57 AM

Yeah that's how I order them.
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The Old One
Posted Feb 25, 2019, 01:15:22 AM

So... Dust To Dust then Dead Orbit, then?
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426Buddy
Posted Feb 25, 2019, 01:00:49 AM

Yeah i gotcha, i was responding to Old Ones
QuoteInferring a timeline, I don't think that's wholly correct. As it would mean then that if that was a reference to Dust To Dust all Colonies went "Tits up." Because of the Alien, and I don't find that likely.

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Ultramorph
Posted Feb 24, 2019, 11:43:47 PM

That's what I mean, it was failing as part of the larger failure of colonies in that period.
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426Buddy
Posted Feb 24, 2019, 10:38:08 PM

The colony in dust to dust was failing before the alien infestation.
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The Old One
Posted Feb 24, 2019, 09:00:54 PM

I don't include those terrible crossover comics, so I'm just keeping them (The standalones) in order of release, after the Alien Trilogy until further notice. Although I think you may be right about the Colonies went "Tits up." Inferring a timeline, I don't think that's wholly correct. As it would mean then that if that was a reference to Dust To Dust all Colonies went "Tits up." Because of the Alien, and I don't find that likely.

I just think it means that W-Y's expansionist Golden Age is over, leading in to Resurrection.
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Ultramorph
Posted Feb 24, 2019, 08:27:51 PM

I place it before Dead Orbit, which is explicitly set a bit later in the period between A3 and AR (2289 or something).

My thoughts on the order of recent series:

1. Life and Death has Weyland-Yutani starting a big push for new colonies with the New Worlds initiative.
2. Flash forward to Dust to Dust, where one of said colonies is starting to fail, hence the terrible decision that starts the outbreak.
3 Dead Orbit has an offhand mention of how the outer colonies went "tits up."

I don't think it's an international thing, but the overall arc works. WY aggressively expanded, got overextended, and then started to fail before losing their FTL contracts and getting suppressed by the USM.
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The Old One
Posted Feb 24, 2019, 07:07:20 PM

So around the same time as Dead Orbit?
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Ultramorph
Posted Feb 24, 2019, 04:49:41 PM

I'd say it's set around the same time as the recent crossovers, so probably about 40 years after Aliens.
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Nukiemorph
Posted Feb 24, 2019, 02:53:36 AM

Anybody have an idea when Dust to Dust takes place?
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The Old One
Posted Feb 22, 2019, 03:13:28 AM

Fantastic Podcast, no omniscient answer.

No Pig Alien thank you lol.
Non-human non-sentient = Alien³ Alien. IMO
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Xiggz456
Posted Feb 21, 2019, 10:11:29 PM

Another awesome podcast! A story revolving around an adult Maxon would definitely be something that I'd like to see. Overall I'm interested in seeing more stories done by a single creator as the art tends to further the narrative in a more cohesive manner when one person is behind the wheel. Excited for the extras that'll be included in the trade which I believe is dropping 4/24 during Alien Week!
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Corporal Hicks
Posted Feb 21, 2019, 03:26:21 PM

Our interview with Gabriel is now up. https://www.avpgalaxy.net/2019/02/21/interview-with-gabriel-hardman-aliens-dust-to-dust-avp-galaxy-podcast-81/
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