With the new September solicitations from Marvel, we have our first look at the covers for Alien Issue #7, which will begin the 2nd story arc of Marvel’s current on-going Alien series.
The creative team from the first arc, writer Phillip Kennedy Johnson and artist Salvador Larroca will be returning for the new arc. It’s currently unknown if Guru-eFX will be back for the colors.
Check out the main cover and two of the variant covers below.
Cover by Marc Aspinall
We have some minor plot details from the solicitation:
THE SEARCH FOR SANCTUARY BEGINS!
• A small colony of “Spinners,” looking to lead a simpler life, have nearly completed terraforming a moon.
• A ship crashes into their Eden from the heavens.
• A terror is unleashed.
The main cover art is by Marc Aspinall, and features an Alien stalking through cornfields. This imagery and that of one of the variant covers with a number of Aliens scaling a barn suggests a farm setting. From the story tease we can gather the farm is located on a colonized moon. Whether or not this will connect directly to the conclusion of the first arc or will be focusing on an entirely different story remains to be seen.
Writer Phillip Kennedy Johnson retweeted the covers and announced the second story arc today:
SECOND ARC, baby.@Marvel #Alien https://t.co/oVCwa6CRHS
— Phillip Kennedy Johnson (@PhillipKJohnson) June 24, 2021
Also on the horizon is a new one-shot Aliens comic, Aliens: Aftermath. Written by Benjamin Percy, with artwork by Dave Watcher, the comic is scheduled for release on July 14th and timed to celebrate the 35th Anniversary of Aliens.
Keep an eye out for our review of the first Marvel Alien story arc after it concludes in late August. Issues #1-#6 will be available in a trade paperback titled ‘Vol 01 Bloodlines’, which is scheduled for release in October.
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Plunkett's still going strong. Would still love to see him back, even for a cover.
Most of them would be in their 60's, hardly infirm.
Thank you! That was confusing the heck out of me lol
That's cool hopes he does his own sci fi comiv that will be cool thanks for the info
*fixed quotes. Hicks.
He works as a freelance artist in science fiction and fantasy. He also just opened a studio in Baja I believe. His website is:
http://www.denbeauvais.com/
*fixed quotes. Hicks.
*fixed quotes. Hicks.
Beauvais is still doing bits and pieces. As is Dorman.
https://yutanipodcast.podbean.com/e/creatives-tristan-jones-comic-artist-episode-23-yutani-podcast/
I would love to see Paul Johnson (guy who ilustrated Aliens: Sacrifice) come back
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I'm sure he did. It was one of the things pointed out very early on! But I do think Dark Horse has had some other fantastic artists in this second golden age too. Stokoe, Hardman, Thies, some fantastic colouring by Beredo and Jackson.
I feel like there are a lot of similarities actually.
I still like Beauvis, Plunkett, and Dorman of the old generation tho.
Better yet, Tristan illustrating a White short story à la Tribes.
IC is much better, and at least there are aspects to like in the characters of IC. Cold Forge was just Alien 3 with a bunch of jackasses and no Ripley.
*edit: I thought the 2nd story arc had already been named but I was mistaken, so I changed this from 3rd to 2nd.
Ultimately, I liked TCF more. It had smaller scale, was tighter, more focused and self-contained. I could sympathize with Blue, I could hate Dorian,, I was happy and unfortunately I didn't find anybody quite like that in the second book
And as with TCF, the best thing that came out of IC were bunch of interviews Alex did in aftermath of book's release. Such a nice fella with interesting views and good sense of humour
I really loved Into Charybdis, a 9 out of 10 for me, but I totally get your perspective on this, heard the complaint before, and even struggled with it myself at times.
I didn't feel like the book went out of its way to show everyone was both good and bad. That's just reality, everyone is a mix of good an bad to one degree or another. Having black and white characters is normal for most fiction and it's totally ridiculous.
Except Duncan, she was pretty much all bad.
Funny you should say that, 'cause I kinda felt the same about Into Charybdis. I liked the ideas, I liked the setting but the tone of the book seemed a bit too ... Idk, preachy ? Book tried so hard to portray EVERYONE on both sides of the conflict as neither good or bad (well, maybe except Duncan) I found it hard to connect to or care about any of them.
Spoiler
And her sudden death twist. It wasn't surprising, it was frustrating. Ok, you caught me off-guard and killed most-likely protagonist. So what ? Make me care about the character and I won't give a shit about that it's obvious he/she's gonna make it to the end. It's like Rian Johnson syndrome, it's subverting expectations for the hell of it
I'd still pick James Stokoe; he's worked for marvel before, as well as made one of the best alien comic series to date (writer and artist for "dead orbit").
It's the style. I've tried reading and the audiobook version and it just feels like an absolute chore (although still a lot better than most Alien licensed fiction tbf).
My bad.
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Oh I see
Why can't you stand reading them ? Is it White's style specifically or you just don't read books in general ? I'm genuinely curious
Johnsson get fundemental stuff wrong and jumps the shark several times and is focusing for some reason on keep making new lines of xenos to all cost, plus the writing and dialog is horrible. Plus how he treats fans and ignores the art problems and says: do better tracing art yourself. No he has to go.
The tracing copycat artist: should be fired from making comics at all.
For writing I would go with white or Jim Woodring or Mark Verheiden, or maybe outside with John wagner.
For art: tristian jones or one of the dark horse artists from earth war series or thicker than blood or outside: Greg Staples from 2000AD or Nick percival.
It's an extremely selfish take from me, because I can't stand reading them but really want to experience them in some way other than second hand tl;dr's.
Those would be my top two picks...
I'd go for adaptations of the Alex White novels (even though I can't deal with his prose, the ideas themselves are truly brilliant).
Illustrated by 1990's era John Blanche.
New team
Salty but fair.