Quote from: SpreadEagleBeagle on Nov 16, 2013, 08:55:57 PM
Quote from: SM on Nov 16, 2013, 08:39:46 PM
Labyrinth is hardly a typical Colonial Marines story.
I know. But the Colonial Marines are still there and the main character (Crespi) is a Colonial Marine. But I do agree with you that Labyrinth is far from a stockpile CM story.
To be honest there aren't that many "Colonial Marines"-centric stories. Sure they cameo in a bunch, or there are Marine characters, but they aren't the central focus nearly as often as one might think.
Quote from: Kimarhi on Nov 17, 2013, 02:33:40 AM
Not so much the comic versions but I do enjoy reading the novelizations of Berserker (Stephani Perry does the best job catching the locker room mentality of people with guns) and Music of the Spears.
I actually didn't mind the latest Aliens comics to be honest....................until you found out it was a setup for a shitty AvP comic.
AvP and AvP Eternal are the best of those comics.
Just last weekend I re-read the 3 A/P/AvP comic series from 2009 for the first time since they came out, and I like the AvP one the least. Both the Aliens and Predator ones feel unfinished, but moreso because they're setting themselves up for their own stores rather than setting up for AvP. I really liked the artwork in the Aliens one, to be honest. I also liked the Predator one a lot more than I remembered liking it the first time around.
AvP Eternal is a cool story, but it'd have been a lot better as a Predator-only story (which is pretty much what the Predator: Concrete Jungle game is - much of it is cribbed from Eternal). The Aliens really feel like a shoehorned afterthought, and I'd love to see Eternal adapted as a Predator movie.
I'm also of the opinion that all of the novelizations except for Labyrinth are better than their comic book counterparts (especially Hive/Harvest, Music of the Spears, and The Female War), but I like having both because I feel they compliment each other well.