Alien Comics Chronological Order (Incl. Movies, Most Games and Novels)

[Nostromo]

Would anyone recommend this reading order? Or not really lol?

Aliens: Stalker   900 AD
Aliens: Earth Angel   1955
Aliens: Incubation    1996
Aliens: Steel Egg   2080
Prometheus   2089-93
Aliens: Elder Gods, Aliens Special    2084-2103
Alien: Covenant – Origins   2100
Alien: Covenant   2104
Aliens: Fast Track to Heaven   2107
Alien   2122
Aliens: Jonesy: Nine Lives on the Nostromo   2122
Alien Isolation (Comic) 2137
Alien Isolation   2137
Alien: Blackout   2137
Aliens: Defiance Vol. 1   2133-38
Aliens: Defiance - Extravehicular    2138
Aliens: Defiance Vol. 2   2133-38
Alien: Prototype   2139
Aliens: Resistance   2140
Aliens: Once in a Lifetime: Dark Horse Presents #140   2141
Aliens: Apocalypse – The Destroying Angels   2142
Aliens: Rescue   2140-45
Alien: Annual #1 2023 (Marvel) Descendant   2156
Alien: Out of the Shadows   2159
Aliens: Vasquez   2166
Alien: Echo   2172
Aliens: Bug Hunt   2178-2800+
Alien: River of Pain   2179
Aliens: Newt's Tale   2179
Aliens   2179
Aliens: Colonial Marines – No Man Left Behind   2179
Aliens: Colonial Marines   2179
Alien: The Cold Forge   2180
Alien: Into Charybdis   2184
Aliens: Dust to Dust    2185 (Approx.)
Alien: Colony War   2186
Alien: Inferno's Fall   2187
Alien: Enemy of my Enemy   2187
Aliens: DNA War   2188
Aliens: The Theory of Alien Propagation 2192
Aliens Outbreak/Book One   2192-93
Alien: Annual #1 2022 (Marvel) Revival   2193
Aliens: Countdown #1-2   2194
Aliens Nightmare Asylum/Book Two   2194
Aliens Female War/Earth War   2194
Aliens: The Alien, DHP: Aliens Platinum Edition   2195
Alien: Thaw   2195
Aliens: Crusade, Aliens: The Original Years Vol. 2   2196
Aliens: Dark Descent   2198
Aliens: Mondo Pest   2198
Aliens: Mondo Heat   2199
Aliens: Lucky, A Decade of Dark Horse #3     2199
Aliens: 45 Seconds, Aliens Special    2200
Alien Bloodlines   2200
Alien Revival   2202
Alien: Infiltrator   2202
Aliens: Fireteam Elite    2202
Aliens Rogue   2203
Aliens: Glass Corridor   2204
Aliens: Horror Show, Part 1, Dark Horse Comics #3          2206
Aliens: Border Lines, Dark Horse Presents, Vol. 1 #121   2207
Aliens: Tribes   2209
Aliens: Part One: Advent, DHP: Aliens Platinum Edition        2210
Aliens: Part Two: Terminus, DHP: Aliens Platinum Edition   2210
Aliens: Horror Show, Part 2-3, Dark Horse Comics #4-5    2211
Aliens Genocide   2212
Aliens: Tourist Season, Dark Horse Presents Annual 1997    2213
Aliens: Sacrifice   2213
Aliens: Harvest/Hive   2214
Aliens: Aftermath   2214
Aliens: Colonial Marines   2215
Aliens: Lovesick   2215
Aliens: Pig          2215
Alien: Icarus   2217
Aliens: Cargo, Part 1-2, DHC #15-16, Kidnapped TPB   2217
Aliens: Kidnapped   2218
Aliens: Backsplash, Part 1-2, DHCs #12-13, Labyrinth TPB    2218
Aliens: More than Human + Aliens (2009 short story) Prologue  2218
Prometheus: Fire and Stone   2219
Aliens: Fire and Stone   2219
Aliens: Field Report   2219
AVP: Alien vs. Predator: Fire and Stone   2219
Prometheus: Fire and Stone: Omega   2219
Aliens: Reapers, DHP: Aliens Platinum Edition 2219
Prometheus: Life and Death   2220
Aliens: Life and Death   2220
AVP: Alien vs. Predator: Life and Death   2220
Aliens: Xenogenesis   2220
Aliens: Salvation   2222
Aliens Vol. 8: Stronghold   2222
Aliens: Survival   2223
Aliens: Music of the Spears   2223-24
Aliens: Purge   2225
Aliens: Berserker/Frenzy   2225 or 2198?
Aliens: Inhuman Condition   2226
Aliens: Labyrinth   2227
Aliens: Headhunters Prologue in Comic Shop News #500   2230
Aliens: Headhunters Dark Horse Presents, Vol. 1  #117   2230
Aliens: No Exit   2232
Aliens: Havoc   2240
Aliens: Criminal Enterprise   2250
Aliens: Wraith   2257
Aliens: The Original Years Vol. 1, "Alien³: Alone"   22??
Aliens: Taste, Dark Horse Comics #11   22??
Aliens: Alien, Part 1-3, Dark Horse Comics #17-19,    22??
Aliens: Cauldron   2276
Aliens: Dead Orbit   2295
Aliens: Alchemy   2310
Alien Resurrection   2381
Aliens: Original Sin   2386
Alien: Sea of Sorrows   2496-97
Aliens: Phalanx   date unknown
Alien Descendant           ?
Alien: Black, White & Blood   ?
Aliens: Bishop   ?
Alien: Uncivil War   ?
Alien: Invasion   ?
Aliens: Do Aliens Dream?   ?

AVP (Missing Novels, Movies, will add them someday)

Aliens vs. Predator: Eternal   1340-2040
Alien vs. Predator: Sand Trap   2007
Aliens vs. Predator: Old Secrets   300 -2009
Aliens vs Predator 2010   2185
Aliens vs. Predator (1989 short story)   2996 BC-2189
Aliens vs. Predator (series)   2996 BC-2189
Aliens vs. Predator (1991 short story)   2996 BC-2189
Aliens vs Predator    2189
Aliens vs. Predator: Xenogenesis   2191
Aliens: Renegade Deadliest of the Species Prequel   2197
Aliens vs. Predator: Deadliest of the Species   2197
Aliens vs. Predator: Hell-Bent   2201
Alien vs. Predator: Fire and Stone   2219
Alien vs. Predator: Life and Death   2220
Aliens vs. Predator: Lefty's Revenge   2222
Aliens vs. Predator: Pursuit   2227
Aliens Versus Predator 2: Primal Hunt   2230
Aliens vs. Predator 2   2231
Aliens vs Predator 2   (game) 2231
Aliens vs. Predator: Blood Time   2231
Aliens vs. Predator: Duel   2231
Aliens vs. Predator: War   2231
Aliens vs. Predator: Booty   ?
Aliens vs. Predator: The Web   ?
Aliens vs. Predator: Chained to Life and Death   2243
Alien vs. Predator: Thrill of the Hunt   2372
Alien vs. Predator: Civilized Beasts   2372
Aliens vs. Predator: Deadspace   ?
Aliens vs. Predator: Three World War   ?
Alien vs. Predator: Thicker Than Blood   22??

[SiL]

There's really no benefit to it but also no real downside. Could be interesting.

[SM]

If I were so inclined, I'd go with this order.

But I think publication order is probably better.

[Xenomrph]

If I were so inclined, I'd go with this order.

But I think publication order is probably better.

Oh hey I helped write that, back in the day.

Although upon review I'm not sure I still stand by all the dates, but if I were to revise that I'd likely start over from scratch.

I am kind of curious where @Nostromo got some of his dates. Do the Titan books or Marvel comics provide hard dates? I haven't read many of those.

[Local Trouble]

If I were so inclined, I'd go with this order.

But I think publication order is probably better.

Oh hey I helped write that, back in the day.

Although upon review I'm not sure I still stand by all the dates, but if I were to revise that I'd likely start over from scratch.

What would you change?

[Xenomrph]

If I were so inclined, I'd go with this order.

But I think publication order is probably better.

Oh hey I helped write that, back in the day.

Although upon review I'm not sure I still stand by all the dates, but if I were to revise that I'd likely start over from scratch.

What would you change?

I'd probably shuffle some dates around and try to do a more critical analysis of things like "apparent technology levels" and stuff like that. Like there are some things that you can slot in nearly anywhere on the timeline after a certain point - when do "Glass Corridor", "Wraith", or the framing story in "Stalker" take place? What about stuff like "Reapers" or "Taste", which provide no human context whatsoever?

The RPG provides some hints based on its internal timeline and what it references, something that didn't exist when SM and I first worked on it 20-odd years ago.

[Nostromo]

If I were so inclined, I'd go with this order.

But I think publication order is probably better.

Oh hey I helped write that, back in the day.

Although upon review I'm not sure I still stand by all the dates, but if I were to revise that I'd likely start over from scratch.

I am kind of curious where @Nostromo got some of his dates. Do the Titan books or Marvel comics provide hard dates? I haven't read many of those.

Hey guys, from all the lists I found, that one was the BEST, great work man. I'll see where I found the others from and will post them all here.

PS> Found some here, but yours was the icing on the cake lol. Again, great work. I liked that you had some of the obscure ones in there.

https://avp.fandom.com/wiki/Timeline_of_media (Awesome list also)

http://www.readingorders.net/the-aliens-viewing-order/

https://www.thecomicboard.com/threads/alien-vs-predator-timeline.14759/

If you ever update it, let me know
 

[SM]

Pretty sure I rewrote my one when doing a job for Fox, but it's been a while now and needs updating with Marvel stuff. When Inget round to reading it.