I've liked some of the Aliens EU since the new stuff has been released.
I was a HUGE Bantam guy and Dark Horse guy (the comics) back in the day, so the EU has always been in my blood just like the movies were. I had no issue seperating the two out though. To me, DH was always its own thing, the games were their own thing, and the movies were there own thing. So DH going wild and the following bantam novelizations of said comics never bothered me.
I think Marvel and (whoever da fuk) writes the novels for them suffer from trying to make things too serious and bleak. Most of them have a very try hard feel to them imo.
I do like White as an author. Think that when White's stuff releases it's more in tune with the way the universe works than most others in the new EU. That said, I was actually only mild to cold forge but think that having that story helped NAIL Charybdis.
But lots of the other stuff is definitely a miss. Despite thinking the alternate Alien 3s had potential on celluloid, I couldn't even finish the Gibson's Alien 3 novelization. I have one where it has a bunch of legacy characters from the movies and from the EU but never made it a couple of pages in. Lots of people like the one where they are trapped in a feudal age of tech because of the Aliens, but I couldn't dig it.
The comics have been bleak. There is little to like in most of them, though I did like aspects of the ones where the androids were the main characters on the radioactive world. It had some cool art, and the story was very much old EU more akin to the DH stuff. But it still suffered from HAVING to reference the new movies, so things like the black goo morphing people are present.
The last true Alien comic series I liked was the first Zulu Hendricks series, and that was only the first half of said series. Started well, but failed toward the end imo, but still a good overall story.
What is weird to me though, is I almost always like media that nobody else does in a series. I will like well liked stories others have liked to be sure, but I can see myself liking this story, just the way that yall are always talking shit about it.
Back in the day I liked the Earth War comics, and I also liked Stronghold before everybody figured out it wasn't supposed to be taken seriously. I also liked the old Colonial Marines comics. I realize it was a terrible overall Aliens story, and it has several of my own pet peeves in it, but there was more I liked than I didn't like.
Lots of it will boil down to your own personal preference.
I also wonder if they aren't mandated as authors to try and force every single familial connection, every reference point, etc into their work by Dibney. Since if you look at SW and Marvel that shit makes it into a tons of series they do, and movies they do.
