AvP Merchandise => Alien-Predator Literature => Topic started by: Corporal Hicks on Mar 14, 2024, 06:24:23 AM
Title: The Woman in the Dark (Alien Lore)
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Mar 14, 2024, 06:24:23 AM
Created by Phillip Kennedy Johnson, the Woman in the Dark was introduced in "Alien: Bloodlines" – the first of Marvel's Alien series – and had a much more significant presence in "Alien: Icarus", the third Marvel series and Phillip Kennedy Johnson's final.
The Woman in the Dark is first mentioned by ex-Weyland-Yutani corporate security member Gabriel Cruz at the very beginning of “Alien: Bloodlines”, who describes a recurring nightmare he has in which he dreams of pure darkness, a dark “a truer shade than just the absence of light.” In the dark he dreams of the Aliens, and of her, the Woman in the Dark.
Title: Re: The Woman in the Dark (Alien Lore)
Post by: [cancerblack] on Mar 14, 2024, 07:32:39 AM
Why do I get the sinking feeling this has something to do with Rommy spoilers?
Title: Re: The Woman in the Dark (Alien Lore)
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Mar 14, 2024, 08:20:23 AM
It takes me longer than a day to whip up a video (unfortunately). I've been working on this for over a month. Subscribers got an early look at the script at the start of Feb.
Title: Re: The Woman in the Dark (Alien Lore)
Post by: Nightmare Asylum on Mar 14, 2024, 03:39:34 PM
Only read the first arc of Marvel's run (didn't care for it a ton and hated the art, which turned me off from continuing with the next batch of issues), but I did find this Sil-creature to have a kernel of an interesting idea to it (specifically in the realm of comic books, that is).
Will have to give this a watch tonight to catch up/fill in the blanks beyond what was presented in those first six issues.
Title: Re: The Woman in the Dark (Alien Lore)
Post by: TilotnyWorshiper28 on Mar 14, 2024, 05:35:47 PM
"The solution to the scourge of Mankind would be far simpler than initially thought. It took only the fabrication of a myth of the Malak (Engineers) as Mankind's ancient gods. Several races and entities had made similar claims so as to more easily attain chattel, but the Malak (Engineers) bore considerable semblance to the Human form.The ruse worked with some, but many were devoted to an invisible Supreme Maker, while others held devotion to a goddess by the name of Onrai or Via. So, the Malak (Engineers) endeavoured to provide them a goddess, a Woman in the Dark for them to venerate! But whether from their experiments or their affront to the divine, the Malak (Engineers) lost their ability to reproduce. A small price to pay, some reasoned, for transcendence so that they might, in fact, become gods." – Supernatural Encounters the trial and transformation of arhul hextrophon
I like how such a recent thing was referenced in SE
Title: Re: The Woman in the Dark (Alien Lore)
Post by: Local Trouble on Mar 14, 2024, 06:04:25 PM
Title: Re: The Woman in the Dark (Alien Lore)
Post by: SM on Mar 14, 2024, 09:29:14 PM
'Lo, it is written that the Stars that have Wars and the place of monsters be one and the same. Dano Bann'non, master of words and computer screens, and Bry Ann Jonsson, maker of ships that go zoom, did stride 'tween the two worlds.' The Ordeals and Odors of Grunthos the Flatulent
Title: Re: The Woman in the Dark (Alien Lore)
Post by: TilotnyWorshiper28 on Mar 14, 2024, 09:47:06 PM
Quote from: SM on Mar 14, 2024, 09:29:14 PM'Lo, it is written that the Stars that have Wars and the place of monsters be one and the same. Dano Bann'non, master of words and computer screens, and Bry Ann Jonsson, maker of ships that go zoom, did stride 'tween the two worlds.' The Ordeals and Odors of Grunthos the Flatulent
AYYYY
Title: Re: The Woman in the Dark (Alien Lore)
Post by: Local Trouble on Mar 15, 2024, 01:16:11 AM
So it's possible that Splendid Ap sent David back in time thousands of years to end up crashing on LV-426? :o
Title: Re: The Woman in the Dark (Alien Lore)
Post by: SM on Mar 15, 2024, 02:45:28 AM
Splendid from Fury Road? Is Mad Max crossing over now too with Bruce Spence and Han has to go to Kessel for guzzaleen?
Title: Re: The Woman in the Dark (Alien Lore)
Post by: TilotnyWorshiper28 on Mar 15, 2024, 01:07:18 PM
Title: Re: The Woman in the Dark (Alien Lore)
Post by: SM on Mar 15, 2024, 10:14:31 PM
It is bad and you should feel bad for perpetuating it.
Title: Re: The Woman in the Dark (Alien Lore)
Post by: [cancerblack] on Mar 15, 2024, 10:14:51 PM
*starting it
Title: Re: The Woman in the Dark (Alien Lore)
Post by: SM on Mar 15, 2024, 10:47:34 PM
And I thought Hicks continued use of 'Prommy' and 'Covey' was bad.
Because it is.
Title: Re: The Woman in the Dark (Alien Lore)
Post by: Local Trouble on Mar 15, 2024, 10:51:14 PM
Is Pommy okay?
Title: Re: The Woman in the Dark (Alien Lore)
Post by: SM on Mar 15, 2024, 11:46:30 PM
Yes
Title: Re: The Woman in the Dark (Alien Lore)
Post by: Mr.Turok on Mar 16, 2024, 12:45:44 AM
I tried to be open minded to it, but this just sounds like what the Queen Mother should have been in the first place being that this role was already designated for her. Reading and influencing minds, having complete control over hives to outright Queens and Empresses, and intelligence that nearly boarders to the closest thing to an eldritch abomination goddess that the series has. Could have just brought that concept back and work from the ground up.
There is also the fact that what does she have to do with the Engineers? Like the Queen Mother could have been the result of rapid evolution that taken it's own violent course and created an actual alien goddess but The Woman in the Dark characterizes her as a being that has been around for eons. Unless this is just another trail that the Engineers never really made the xenos in the first place, stumbled upon them, and exploited them from there?
Title: Re: The Woman in the Dark (Alien Lore)
Post by: [cancerblack] on Mar 16, 2024, 05:02:51 AM