I picked up issue 1 today and wow! I was thoroughly impressed with Black, White & Blood! The three stories were all great and I'm excited to see where two of them go.
The first story
Utopia was the most ALIEN feeling. It's always fun to see the universe from the perspective of the UPP.
Spoiler
It's an alien loose on a socialist Halo ring!
The artwork was good, you don't see too much of the alien but in one panel it looks like a praetorian from Fireteam. This is the story I'm most excited to see the end of because there's a cool idea of characters being forced to choose between dying for their morals or going against what they believe is right to survive. It reminds me of Salvation in that aspect.
I've been going through the early Dark Horse era comics and
The Hunt felt like a story from that time. At first I didn't think I'd like it as much but it's entertaining.
Maternal Instinct was great. Short, sweet, and incredibly tense.
Spoiler
There was a moment at the end I thought a character had been betrayed and while that would have been a very Alien ending I'm glad that's not the direction it took. I wanted to see the character make it out. Making the reader care about a character like that in so few pages I think speaks to the strength of the story. The idea of a Mu/th/ur computer helping a child as a parent would is really cool. Maybe a little out there for an AI to care that much for human life but for the purpose of the story it's fine.
The entire time reading it I was thinking to myself god this story would fit perfectly with the gameplay of Alien Isolation.
We'll have to see where this series goes but in my opinion this isn't something I'd sleep on as an Alien fan!
