Quote from: The1PerfectOrganism on Mar 04, 2014, 12:49:49 PM
Quote from: Xenomrph on Mar 04, 2014, 06:31:22 AM
Quote from: Ultramorph on Mar 04, 2014, 06:22:57 AM
I would love all the new 2014 novels, comics, and Alien: Isolation to tie together. I just hope/wish they restrain the Ripley/Hicks fanwanking. I want more Engineer and black goo than I do Ripleys.
Seconding this. If postponing the comics lets them tie in with Isolation or the new novels and whatnot in interesting ways, I'm all for it.
I don't mind seeing Amanda but I swear to God if I see Ellen standing with an Engineer I'll pull my hair out.
I agree with both of you. We've already had Ripley training with Predators to fight Alien-Terminators, so hopefully they don't feel the need to do any
that silly again.
I'm looking forward to seeing how it all comes together by year's end.
I might ask Sebela something along the lines of "Thoughts on Alien: Isolation?" His response is sure to be at least entertaining. Last time I asked him about AvP he said something like "There'll be Aliens and Predators and at some point they'll versus the bejeezus out of each other." NDAs are funny like that.
As far as
if all the upcoming stuff will have connections (which I'm beginning to believe more and more that they will), I'm still curious about some of the wording in the
Sea of Sorrows blurb, which has already ignited some debate over wording, particularly the "descendants" issue. The last line is "This second novel
and its two tightly plotted tie-ins will directly relate to the first two films of the franchise, expanding the canon like never before." I'm not sure if that's just a mundane, badly worded reference to the other two books in the trilogy (a likely conclusion) or if they mean something else, like the comic series and Alien: Isolation. I've had no luck asking James Moore, since his blog wants a Google account I just can't seem to get set up. You can try at
http://genrefied.blogspot.com/2013/11/alien-sea-of-sorrows.html.
I just thought I'd do a bit more exploring on the Amanda Ripley angle, comparing what we've seen from Isolation with the Palumbo cover. Here's the (admittedly rough) result of putting the two faces side-by-side:
For me the clincher is the set and color of both character's eyes, both seeming to be brown and set rather close. The mouths looks very similar as well, not to mention the hair(style).
As for the point about the suits looking like a different vintage, that could go either way. The character of the Aliens cover would fit right in in the general period of Alien.
Another thing I noticed on Palumbo's version of the cover is the vintage of the spacesuits the cocooned characters are wearing. While the helmets looks vaguely Prometheus-esque, the gloves make me think they're later, from around, again, the period of Alien:
Compare the bulky glove and possible shoulder pads with a suit from say, Alien: Isolation:
I'm becoming more and more convinced it's all connected.