What is the best ending for Hicks?

[Immortan Jonesy]

Due to the population of Fiorina 161, I don't think killing Newt offscreen was a bad idea at all. But what about Hicks. Do you believe he deserved a different destiny in Alien³?

[irn]

I like what Alien 3 did. Space is bleak and dangerous. We all wanted a happy ending but the horrors of space said no.

[StrangeShape]

It could have been interesting to have a marine stuck among these kind of people, but it's I think even more interesting that it's poor Ripley alone, stripped of any protectors or partners, facing the alien and the criminals herself

[SM]

Some of the stuff they did in the original comic was decent in regards to Hicks (if you can ignore the fact he abandoned Newt to a mental hospital for 10 years).

[Rankles75]

Some of the stuff they did in the original comic was decent in regards to Hicks (if you can ignore the fact he abandoned Newt to a mental hospital for 10 years).

Yeah, there were some solid stories there. Certainly much better than what that film did with him.

[Nightmare Asylum]

As someone that has a username based on those stories... I prefer Alien 3.

[StrangeShape]

Some of the stuff they did in the original comic was decent in regards to Hicks (if you can ignore the fact he abandoned Newt to a mental hospital for 10 years).

Oh yes definitely.  Lots of great ideas like the fact that he became that scarred outsider to even his own fellow marines. But in Alien 3 he wouldnt really fit and its stronger without him

[SM]

Yeah the scarred outsider wasn't a bad take.

[HuDaFuK]

I like what Alien 3 did. Space is bleak and dangerous. We all wanted a happy ending but the horrors of space said no.

This. I've never really enjoyed any of the alternative post-Aliens Hicks stories.

The comic started off in a good place, but once it set off into space I just found it to be a bland rehash of plot points the films already did far better. Gibson's screenplay is a fun alternate but I much prefer the movie we got. The less said about ACM the better.

[Kradan]

Some of the stuff they did in the original comic was decent in regards to Hicks (if you can ignore the fact he abandoned Newt to a mental hospital for 10 years).

I've got the impression he was in the jail or something at the beginning of Earth Hive. Or was he ?

[SM]

Stockade.  He was in on drunk and disorderly charges.

[Kradan]

I meant, maybe he was put in there for his actions in Aliens ? You know, for 10 years ? I'd say that's a good reason to abandon Newt.

[SM]

That's not what happened though.

[Local Trouble]

I imagine Hicks would be pretty pissed off after getting ten years in Leavenworth for nothing.

[Kradan]

That's not what happened though.

Damn !