Posted to Instagram today by Alex Nice, one of the concept artists working on Alien: Romulus, we now have a look at the crew shirt for the film! The artwork on the shirt depicts a chestburster slithering through a skull within an astronaut helmet. The Alien ‘appearing lines’ and a bold Romulus title are at shown at the top. The text also features a cheeky ‘crew expendable’ callback to the original film, and states the filming location of Budapest. 
The Instagram story credits Dane Hallett with creating the artwork for the shirt. Hallett previously worked on the last Alien film, Alien: Covenant, and provided artwork for several of the crew shirts on that film as well. One such shirts made its way into our own Corporal Hicks’ collection and can be seen down below.
Hallett has returned as part of the concept artist team for Romulus. He also contributed to the 2020 art book, Alien: 40 Years 40 Artists, and we had the pleasure of speaking with him (and Matt Hatton) on the 52nd episode of the AvP Galaxy Podcast back in 2017.
Alien: Romulus has recently wrapped and will be releasing in theaters in August of next year.
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I asked Tristan Jones about this exodus one-shot.
It turns out that's not Newt drowning in her cryotube (it totally looked like that to me too). It was a flashback sequence from an original story he was working on years ago in which a young girl wakes up in the middle of cryo sleep and witnesses her mother being torn in half after their ship is hit by debris from a nearby asteroid that exploded due to a mining accident.
Visually, it's heavily inspired by alien so it really does look like Newt in cryo right before she drowned.
I think I found the other pages at his DeviantArt profile...
https://www.deviantart.com/t-rexjones/art/Exodus-1-4-340025678
https://www.deviantart.com/t-rexjones/art/EXODUS-p5-342332150
https://www.deviantart.com/t-rexjones/art/EXODUS-p6-7-342332441
Woah! I've never seen this before either! Is this the full one-shot? Or is there more beyond these few pages?
Wow, this really invokes those old Metallica shirt designs to me. Looks cool.
https://www.simbasible.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/1-8.gif
All this skull buster talk has inspired me to watch Resurrection after dinner tonight! It's been years, let the goofiness ensue!
Also, as AVP Galaxy's resident parasitologist I find the possibility of a face/skull burster fascinating. Human parasites can emerge from the host in numerous ways: rectum/stool, mouth, nasal passages, and can even inhabit the eyes. For me the most disturbing are Bot flys in which the Larvae burst from the skin. It would be interesting to see if Romulus pulls a covenant and mixes up the formula with the life cycle. Join me next time for more entertaining/disturbing parasitology facts.
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I'm sure it's a good decade old now.
Oh wow, I haven't seen this before.
Great name for metal band
https://loser-city.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Exodus-Tristan-Jones.png
Reminded me of Tristan Jones' Exodus, a really dark one shot about Newt's drowning.
https://twitter.com/70sscifi/status/1345503822345510912
The above Twitter link is an entire thread full of incredible art dealing with the subject matter.
I'm going to guess that that is just fun imagery for the shirt design and not actually representative of anything in the film (plus, Resurrection technically beat it to the punch there
I echo the statement that I'd very much wear something like this, and I can't wait to start seeing more of Dane Hallett's art for this project in general.
Also skull buster?