ALIEN: The Weyland-Yutani Report (S.D. Perry, 160 pages)

[HuDaFuK]

Got my copy in the mail today, it looks pretty great.

Really confused that you've received this as everyone (including Amazon, who I'm guessing you bought it from) still list it as being released in May.

[felix]

No I get that it's intended as an in-universe book, and the writing (mostly) does reflect that, it's more of the visuals paired with the writing and the way the pages are laid out. It doesn't actually feel like an official report.

Any special items attached to the book pages?

[426Buddy]

Amazon has it in stock and ready to ship when I look at it.

[HuDaFuK]

US Amazon has it ready to ship (despite saying it's not released until April 26, lol) but UK Amazon is still saying May 20.

Seems we may be getting a different release date over here.

[Perfect-Organism]

The dates for release on certain books seem to be all over the place.  I remember when I ordered Alien: River of Pain from Chapters.ca in Canada, the book arrived several weeks before it was released.

[Xenomrph]

No I get that it's intended as an in-universe book, and the writing (mostly) does reflect that, it's more of the visuals paired with the writing and the way the pages are laid out. It doesn't actually feel like an official report.

Any special items attached to the book pages?

Yeah, I haven't gone page-by-page through the whole book yet but I've seen a few things taped to various pages. Morse's 'Star Beast' (I still wish they'd used the title 'The Dragon' but whatever), John J Marachuk's medical report, an official complaint from Lambert after Ripley refuses to break quarantine, etc.

[Elmazalman]

No I get that it's intended as an in-universe book, and the writing (mostly) does reflect that, it's more of the visuals paired with the writing and the way the pages are laid out. It doesn't actually feel like an official report.

Any special items attached to the book pages?

Yeah, I haven't gone page-by-page through the whole book yet but I've seen a few things taped to various pages. Morse's 'Star Beast' (I still wish they'd used the title 'The Dragon' but whatever), John J Marachuk's medical report, an official complaint from Lambert after Ripley refuses to break quarantine, etc.

Lambert lodged a complaint against Ripley?For following standard procedure.Ripley should have lodged a complaint against her for assault!

[Perfect-Organism]

No I get that it's intended as an in-universe book, and the writing (mostly) does reflect that, it's more of the visuals paired with the writing and the way the pages are laid out. It doesn't actually feel like an official report.

Any special items attached to the book pages?

Yeah, I haven't gone page-by-page through the whole book yet but I've seen a few things taped to various pages. Morse's 'Star Beast' (I still wish they'd used the title 'The Dragon' but whatever), John J Marachuk's medical report, an official complaint from Lambert after Ripley refuses to break quarantine, etc.

Lambert lodged a complaint against Ripley?For following standard procedure.Ripley should have lodged a complaint against her for assault!

Yeah, she kinda didn't really have time for that.  Things kind of went sideways at that point.

But... If Lambert's report survived, then that should have corroborated Ripley's report n'est pas?

[HuDaFuK]

Yeah, she kinda didn't really have time for that.  Things kind of went sideways at that point.

They had like 24 hours while Kane was lying in the infirmary getting face-humped...

[swarm87]

got my copy in the mail today; oddly some of the events in the "space beast" insert are out of order vs what happens in the film. also its pretty cool how it references alien out of the shadows and isolation but I would have liked if there was a little more information on the Sevastopol encounter given that WY bought the station(if there was enough time to get the information) and does the events of the origin project being left out mean that colonial marines if officially non canon?

[Ultramorph]

I got my copy today, and looking through it, I'm pleased that I didn't cancel my order like I was considering. I love how salty the section on Resurrection sounds at times. W-Y clearly has no respect for the USM. 

[SM]

and does the events of the origin project being left out mean that colonial marines if officially non canon?

Correct.

[FiorinaFury161]

OMG. He returns.

[Ultramorph]

Reading through a bit more thoroughly, it's cool to see that the question of Michael Bishop gets addressed!

Also, we're getting pretty close to the foundation of the USM (2226) in the new Life and Death comics (2222), so I wonder if we'll see that at some point.

[Perfect-Organism]

Yeah, she kinda didn't really have time for that.  Things kind of went sideways at that point.

They had like 24 hours while Kane was lying in the infirmary getting face-humped...

In Aliens, Ripley said that her crew was wiped out in less than 24 hours so one would presume that was from the moment of contact until Lambert's big moment.  But granted the officers could have snuck off to fill out all sorts of reports within that time before all the excitement.