With controversial artist Salvador Larroca’s imminent departure from Marvel’s Alien after the release of Alien: Annual #1, it seems Marvel will be relaunching their Alien line with a new #1 (as shown in August’s solicitations) under returning writer Phillip Kennedy Johnson and new artist Julius Ohta!
PHILLIP KENNEDY JOHNSON AND JULIUS OHTA LAUNCH A NEW ALIEN EPIC! MAN, MACHINE, AND THE MOST TERRIFYING CREATURE IN THE UNIVERSE…IT’S AN EXPRESS ELEVATOR TO HELL, AND YOU’RE GONNA WANT TO BE ON IT!
A small colony of synths have settled in secret on a backwater moon. When a company of United System soldiers come to them for help retrieving biotechnology on a hostile planet that could be the key to saving humanity, the synths must decide whether the prospect of peace between man and machine is worth the risk of betrayal.
The above cover is the work of Björn Barends, and the issue will also have variant covers by Travis Charest, Carlos Magno, and Ryan Brown. The new series’ will begin August 2022, though we don’t have an exact release date yet! The series new artist Julius Ohta has previously worked on Captain Marvel, Iron Man, Wastelanders: Doom and Marvel’s Voices: Comunidades. Talking about working on Alien, Julius said:
“When I got invite to draw the new Alien series, I had a professional and standard reaction – I was glad to be invited and I was determined to make it the best work of my life. But then, a few minutes later, it came all at once – I understood that I was going to draw Alien… THE ALIEN. I freaked out (in a very good way) and then I knew the tremendous responsibility that is to be in this franchise.”
Marvel’s announcement about the relaunch, titled Alien: Icarcus, gives us more information about what we can expect from this new chapter of Marvel’s Alien.
“The series kicks off a chapter called ALIEN: ICARUS, which heightens the action in a similar way to how James Cameron’s 1986 Aliens did after the original film,” he continued. “In ALIEN: ICARUS, readers will meet the legendary Synthetic Special Operations Team, led by one of my favorite original Alien characters so far: an unstoppable synthetic named Freyja.”
“When disaster strikes a crucial United Systems planet, the entire human population of the system relies on Steel Team finding the long-deserted Weyland-Yutani Research and Development outpost on Tobler-9, one of the most hostile environments in the known universe. Steel Team’s the most bad-ass strike team in military history, and they’ve never met an organic life form that offered them the slightest threat…but they don’t know what’s waiting for them on Tobler-9,” he explained.
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I also did not like how through all the carnage of slicing and dicing the xenos that the acid blood never came into play, at all?
Like obviously I understand they're synthetics and bad-ass elite fighters, but the reckless fighting having 0 repercussions in terms of the acid blood seemed completely dumb.
I want to give Disney the benefit of the doubt here because I hold out hope Alien will be revived to its former glory, but stories like this just make that so hard.
Alies Hive become like Natural Selection the game!
(And+human DNA because aliens similar with human)
In hive can be
Alien spider queen
Alien leon queen
Etc
Etc!
Who more powerfull become queen and king
Of
Giger junglehive!Wait super alien like The Thing!
Where hive become giger alien creepy city of devils!
Smart transform Aliens dangerous civilizations!
Like zergs or tyranids!
Etc!
With creepy biomechanical megapolis on alien planet!
With creepy alien emperor
It what engineers was fear!
Great end of saga!
It what Ridley Scott potencially did after prometheus and covenant!
It remember me on
Prometheus fire and stone comix! (dark horse)
But evolution of idea and it cool!
Wait sequel!
About alien planet! Planet of monsters
(Like on covenant concept art)
Where monsters with aliens DNA
(From Black Goo)
With epic final!
Oh i so want Alien and AvP game about it!
It will be cool!
Upgrade predator who stole DNA
Vs
Upgrade Alien who stole DNA
Like in character editor!
And alien-black goo like venom for engineers!
Androids like liquid terminators!
Etc
Etc!
This battle will be legendary!
In final war!
And it will be epic final!
Now i happy what alien now disney!
We have many books comics videogames and movies
With rating R
And possible unite AVP
And it cool!
But now old aliens
It just like humans in giger world.
Like apex predators of giger world!
Now we have many aliens creatures in this giger world!
And Alien Planet!
AvP now like Star Wars But Horror!
And it cool!
Wait sequel
And Final!
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Cool she like deacon
Or Elden from
Prometheus fire and stone
(Darkhorse)
i think she will mutate to alien
And to new alien queen. And after it to alien empress!
Now marvel alien is full ended!
They can make new ark or sequel!
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All in all I think I'd rate this arc 8/10. I've come to really enjoy the 6 issue arc format and while he missed the mark at times overall I think Phillip Kennedy Johnson did a solid job during the course of his 19 issues. With that being said I'm now really excited to see what the new creative team will bring!
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I think that was something that was teased . I wouldn't be surprised if Lee isn't the first Goddess and that there was previous ones at a earlier time but the Hivemind just blends them all together .
also Charles Soule did a Q&A on twitter https://twitter.com/CharlesSoule/status/1621921509265506305 He'd like to write some Alien
I'd like to see it tied up, and I kinda like the idea of the hive mind being timeless (was that something that Vol 1 teased? I can't recall.) but there's just something about it being this modern creature I don't think sounds too satisfying.
Is that @SiL on the cover??
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Andi hope in this year will be anounced
Marvel AvP!
Marvel Alien 5!
https://aiptcomics.com/2023/01/13/marvel-preview-alien-5-2/
https://goldenapplecomics.com/products/nov220893
Like in prometheus?
Yeah, I think this is a bad call. It just seems like one of those shorthand ways of trying to show how amazing Steel Team is compared to normal meatbag marines, but it just veers the tone of the series too far off base. I mean, sure we've had swords in Music of the Spears, but that was interesting in spite of that.
Some of the other elements that aren't explained - they irritate the hell out of me, but I have to wonder if they're left dangling for future arcs. I think I spoke about it on the Series 2 podcast, but I wonder how unfair I'm being disliking things like that if it's just another chapter in a story we haven't finished.
Theres clear walls of what one can do in the alien franchise and whats it built onto, we know from prometheus up to Alien resurrection how the technology of the world is like, military uses weapons that fire bullets, missiles etc.
In comes someone who now decide lightsabers is a thing of this world and laser guns, extremly large meele weapons like its medieval age again and somehow its effective against xenomorphs, and crossbows wtf? In an era set after Aliens where marines have way more grounded in reality weapons, I dont see soldiers walking around with large axes or androids when there are much more effective weapons around for this time era. Assault rifles, grenades, napalm flamethrowers, Sadar, sonic wallbreakers etc.These new weapons and lightsabers etc dont fit into alien universe which is more grounded in reality and industrial era designs.
Dead orbit was great,and I wouldnt mind seeing more of that or heck aliens labyrinth or new earth war style dark comic, aliens dust to dust was great too. Heck I have several stories set in the alien franchise that uses the foundation of what is established and not create something that isnt fitting in that I would love to create into several comics and read.
Theres so much to use in this franchise theres no need to add technology from star wars to make it new and exciting....
I want transformation
Species to Some alien queen!
In final!))
Dead orbit is exactly what I want more of
I hope you're right. PKJ would have to be at the bottom of my list for alien comic writers at this point.
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Haven't heard anything from PKJ regarding another arc at this point so I think we may be getting a creative shake up. Time will tell but as I've said before, after an author writes a trilogy, I always feel that it's then time to give someone else a shot.
I liked Dead orbit, But it played it very safe. How many Dead orbits can you make and retain a mainstream appeal?
I am loving Juluis Ohta's work on this though! Thatpage
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When I ask myself what I would do differently, I just down know.
This is a conundrum for fans. When the well has dried up, are you in your right to be critiquing when they try new stuff?
I know, hence why I said "I wish" lol
This is true.
But, the good thing about the dark horse era was that most of their series were 3 to 6 issues, so if there was an artist or a writer that you didn't care for you could at least look forward to the next series which changes out the creative teams (more issues if you count their more expansive cross-overs but still there was an end in sight).
With marvel's formula, there's no telling how long we've gotta deal with their version of xenogenesis, and that is incredibly frustrating imo.
The Dark Horse comics gave us wackier things than laser swords
All the f**king time, too.
remember Xenogenesis? This feels like a subdued version of that.
Alien and Star Wars!
Phillip Kennedy and Kathleen Kennedy!
I think will be videogame like Multiversus but Disneyversus
In 2024!
About It!
I wish they'd just call a do-over, and throw all this nonsense out and start anew with a different writer.
AvP
Marvel
Star Wars
Disney
Ha ha ha!
Metaverse
Multiverse!
They just add in AvP all similar
And make crossover.
(Malifiscent like species)
I think disney dont understand AvP!))
It must be brutal horror not a Space Fantasy!
But ok i was ready
I dont angry!))
Now it
Space Fantasy Horror!
But epic.
Marvel you absolute bellends.
Lol, we get our own lightsabers now!