With Marvel’s third Alien storyline set to conclude at the start of February with the 6th issue of Alien: Icarus, the April 2023 solicitations have now revealed that Marvel are relaunching the Alien series with a brand new creative team! Writer Declan Shalvey will be taking over from Phillip Kennedy Johnson who has written all three of Marvel’s previous Alien arcs, and Andrea Broccardo will be taking on artistic duties.
Scientist Batya Zahn will do just about anything to get her family off the icy moon where they’ve been conducting research on water conservation. But there’s more than glacial springs to find in this forgotten corner of the galaxy. When they discover an extraordinary organism buried in the ice, it won’t take long for tensions to heat up. What is hidden in the snow comes forth in the thaw…and no one will be welcoming this spring. A new era of Alien starts here!
Cover art by DIKE Ruan.
While he’s now writing for Marvel, Declan Shalvey has worked with Marvel previously as an illustrator having worked on Thunderbolts, Deadpool and Moonknight. He’s also no stranger to horror comics, having illustrated 28 Day Laters for BOOM! studios. Declan’s previous writing credits are for Savage Town and Bog Bodies, two crime comics published by Image.
Andrea Broccardo has also worked with Marvel before, providing the illustrative talents for several of Marvel’s Star Wars projects including their main Star Wars series, as well as Age of Rebellion, Doctor Aphra and Poe Dameron.
Marvel’s third Alien series, Alien: Icarus, is set to finish its run on the 8th of February. The first issue of this new Alien series will debut on Alien Day, April 26th 2023. Thanks to Chieftain Suom and TilotnyWorshiper28 for the heads up!
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ANDREA BROCCARDO (A)
Cover by DIKE Ruan
Variant Cover by MICHAEL WALSH
Variant Cover by SUNGHAN YUNE
SOMETHING WICKED IS COMING THEIR WAY...
The USCSS Boreas has been infiltrated! A chest-burster is wreaking havoc on base, leaving a trail of gore and eviscerated bodies in its wake. With their numbers dwindling, will the Weyland-Yutani security team be able to track the alien down before it becomes something even more deadly? And even if they do, how will they manage the horrors lurking just outside their walls beyond the ice?
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June 28th.
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Good call! And #3 solicitation should be out in the next couple weeks! Also, I like the name Talbot Engineering. And that cover of who I assume is Batya is so good.
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https://www.comicsbeat.com/marvel-comics-may-2023-solicitations/
Haha THAW will be vol 1 of a new storyline, separate from Bloodlines-Icarus, BUT will also be the 4th series released by Marvel.. Come on! How far are that going to go with this like 5 years on?
I only collect the individual issues but does anyone have the Bloodlines or Revival TPBs to see what's it's officialy called in the publication information blurb inside the book? Is it really published as Alien Vol. 1: Bloodlines? Or is it just Alien: Bloodlines?
The Corporal is right. Marvel just needs to put the series subtitle on the covers like they did with Aftermath.
Just put actual arc titles on the single covers please, Marvel. Please!
ALIEN VOL. 1: THAW (Alien, 4)
So it's volume 1, but it's also volume 4.
Derp.
I know.. I just hope they don't give them the same 20th Century cover design they are giving the Predator comics. It makes them look like baseball cards haha
Amazon posted the TPB here: https://www.amazon.com/ALIEN-VOL-Alien-Jefte-Palo/dp/1302947664/ref=sr_1_20?crid=196NXAUVPEDBP&keywords=alien&qid=1678473814&s=books&sprefix=alien%2Cstripbooks%2C109&sr=1-20
Also, where's the Maleev variant cover reveal?? I hope they don't brand it with the same 20th Century Studios design they're giving issue 2 of Predator: The Preserve.
They have titles. They just don't put it on the cover until the TPB which is annoying. The title is typically on the inside.
It really isn't. And there's nothing wrong with that. I'm in agreement about just giving these things actual titles to make it easier on folk.
Alien: Bloodlines 1-6
Alien: Revival 1-6
Alien: Icarus 1-6
Alien: Thaw 1-6
But instead, we have:
Alien 1-12
Alien 1-6
Alien 1-6
At least the collected editions make it simpler.
Yup
Anytime they change writers and/or artists they reset back to #1. They didn't always do this with ongoing series, but that's what they've switched to over the years. There's a few reasons for it. As nightmare asylum pointed out, #1s sell better. Collectors tend to want issue #1's more because those are more likely to have value later. Also, new readers are more inclined to pick up the series and start reading when they see an issue #1; it's less intimidating than seeing an issue #352.
All that being said, yes, it does appear it's being reset back to #1 again. It's not showing any issue numbers on the cover arts yet, but everywhere I've looked keeps referring to it as issue #1.
It's pretty par for the course in the comic industry; #1s are typically the best selling issues of any run, so the general rule of them seems to be 'reset back to a #1 as often as possible.'
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That's what Marvel have the Brood for.
If so, personally, I'm really against the crossovers... I'd prefer they keep alien separate from all their other properties. But I wouldn't be shocked to see crossovers eventually. They (dark horse and DC) did it with Batman, Superman, green lantern and a number of others...
About god damn time! Best news I've heard since Larroca departed the franchise!
I'll buy the comic when the new writer's story arc hits. Worth giving it a try again with someone new giving it a go now...
crossing my fingers this guy turns out to be an improvement over PKJ.