We have just uploaded the 148th episode of the Alien vs. Predator Galaxy Podcast (right-click and save as to download)! Corporal Hicks, RidgeTop and Xenomorphine are revisiting one of Xenomorphine’s favourite comics, Aliens: Sacrifice, and the comic it is often paired up with, Aliens: Salvation.
Paul Johnson’s Aliens: Sacrifice artwork for the cover of Aliens Magazine Volume 2, Issue 12.
We discuss how both Aliens: Sacrifice and Aliens: Salvation present the idea of crisis of faith, Paul Johnson’s fantastic moody artwork, stylized artwork within Alien comics, moral dilemmas, and plenty more!
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Hah-hah! Hicks often has a go at me for being critical of stuff, but I have my favourites, too! This is definitely one of them and it's a beautiful example of how an 'Alien' story can be genuinely thought provoking and not let up on tension-filled dread.
The best stories are those which stay with you and either inspire, haunt or, like this, do both. Even all these years after it was published.
We're glad you enjoyed it! It was a neat one to participate in and led to a really interesting exchange of views between us.
I honestly didn't expect how unanimous you guys were in liking Sacrifice ! Even oh so hard to please Xenomorphine didn't have much bad to say about it ! IMO Sacrifice is single most, if not underrated, then definitely overlooked Aliens comic. It's such an organic blending of stunning visuals and great storytelling that I feel totally baffled that nobody seems to talk about it !
I'm so glad Xenomorphine brought up whole "moral dilemma" point which is a foundation on top of which this entire story rests. Hell, I have no idea what I would've done in a situation like that, maybe I would've just commit suicide to not be a part of feeding babies to Alien. That is not to say that I think colonists are 100% monsters, comic does a nice job presenting a situation where even the best of people can fall to doing some horrific shit like this. Comic doesn't preach you, it lets the reader make up their own mind and that's IMO just great
Also really enjoyed religious undertones this one played with. This story is the closest we got to "Alien 3 feel" in comic book form. And Alien being presented as an incarnation of Satan himself also reminds me of Ward's draft which leaned even more into religious themes than Alien 3 we got. I would describe rhis comic's view of atheism as "bleakly optimistic". I mean, it makes sense to me, if there's no God, then there's no Satan, just universe. There's something weirdly calming about that
Overall, a very very enjoyable episode. Good job, @Corporal Hicks, @RidgeTop and @Xenomorphine. Love you guys
P. S. Only read Salvation once. Wasn't overly impressed by it unfortunately
Irony is I can never remember artist's name
OMG, @Corporal Hicks, you thought of me while picking this one ? My heart is melting right now
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Um, @Corporal Hicks ? You uploaded a wrong one, this is Prometheus anniversary podcast :- \