With Aliens: Rescue due to kick off at the end of July, Dark Horse Comics have announced the next series – Aliens: Colonial Marines: Rising Threat! Rising Threat is set to tie into the events of the upcoming game from Cold Iron Studios and will also continue the story of Olivia Shipp, the character recently introduced in Alien: Echo!
“Aliens Colonial Marines: Rising Threat delves into the formative years of the Colonial Marines. Tying into the events of the upcoming Cold Iron Studios videogame, this new series introduces Olivia Shipp, leader of a squad of battle-weary Marines who have defied orders to rescue the survivors of a refinery under siege.”
Once again Brian Wood is returning to write Rising Threat, making this his fourth Alien series for Dark Horse. Interior artwork with be handled by Werther Dell’Edera, with Michael Atiyeh responsible for colours. Though the press release (via Comicbook.com) doesn’t mention, it would appear that the fan favourite Tristan Jones is returning to provide cover art!
Aliens: Colonial Marines: Rising Threat will be an 8 issue long run, with the first issue currently scheduled for release on the 18th of September.
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(Nothing against Dark Horse's decision.)
Rising Threat was sounding better than Rescue as far as I've read.
A page one re-write of the same basic storyline from someone else could work. I've only read Echo and Grant's Predator short, but there's no reason she couldn't do it. Apart from Echo, it's been a mighty long time we've had a woman writing for Alien's female protagonists. Criminal Enterprise was 2008. And the only comic I can think of that had a woman writing was Xenogenesis (or co-written in that case). Kelly Sue DeConnick wrote F & S Omega. That's not a great record.
And I don't think it should be cheapened by it being about A:CM being cursed. It's about a guy being an arsehole.
That sounds f**king creepy actually
But like, this has apparently been going on with him for years so why the hell was he even hired in the first place
Bravo Dark Horse, who had to have known about this all along but didn't bother to do anything until it was in the public eye again. Him getting fired should have happened years ago.
EDIT: So looking into this more and there's been stuff out about him publically since at least 2013?
https://twitter.com/comicsbeat/status/1167573067024850944
This one makes me think of what Little Vasquez saw in the first Colonial Marines series
Synopsis -
Spoiler
Earth War I remember finally finding and being like f**k yeah, and then opening and being like what the hell?
They've slightly grown on me. I have no idea why. Earth War should be in the bin with Resurrection and Prometheus, but it isn't for me.
I'm not even sure how my own brain works sometimes.
The first series was pretty hot when it released. I enjoyed the first story quite a bit. I've probably reread that on 20 times. Earth War was pretty disappointing to me. It had amazing covers though.
Pretty interesting interview. Some details on the general plot of the series, some talk about working on the tie-in angle of it.
Covers for issue 2 are out: https://www.newsarama.com/46239-dark-horse-comics-october-2019-solicitations.html
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It's generally better with the art.
If they ever want to follow on from the Rage War, Weaver's World was still getting hammered by Aliens at the conclusion of that.
As for the lauded original trilogy - after years of listening to people rave about them, when I finally got around to reading the original trilogy novels, I was amazed by how lacklustre they were.
Loved or reviled.
And after Resurrection's always an option.
Would I like to see it again? I'm honestly not sure. I'd certainly love to see a larger, more established colony get taken over. It's just that any Earth invasion would once again bump up against Resurrection. Unless Fox just decides to finally be rid of it...
It's still being reprinted 30 something years later.
It'd be cheaper these days probably in terms of the scale of the story. Not sure Weaver would be interested though.
I can dig that.