First Marvel Collection Revealed

[Corporal Hicks]

Question: Does Nightmare Asylum include the extra panels that were added for the trade paperback?

^ This.

Doesn't look like. There's no full page of Spears with his hand on a tank.

And it looks like a chunk of the series collected for the first release have now dropped on Comixology. Not checked to see exactly which yet.

[HuDaFuK]

Doesn't look like. There's no full page of Spears with his hand on a tank.

The added panel is in there, but not as part of the comic - it's included with the bonus material at the back. My copy just arrived

Says it was originally added to balance out the two-page spreads in the collected editions. Interesting, I always wondered why they stuck the extra page in there.

[Corporal Hicks]

Didn't think to check the bonus material. At least it's in there.

[HuDaFuK]

The bonus section's pretty tasty. Loads of bonus art and it's even got a bunch of the forewords written for previous collections.

[Rambo]

The bonus section's pretty tasty. Loads of bonus art and it's even got a bunch of the forewords written for previous collections.

That's great to hear - appreciate the early insights.

If the card comic is included, is it given a formal title? I've always known it as "Alone" but I know that's a fan title.

[HuDaFuK]

Nope, it's just listed as "Alien 3 Trading Card Comic" in the contents.

Interestingly all the comics have their original release titles, so the first two series are just "Aliens", Harvest is "Hive" etc.

[HuDaFuK]

My only criticism thus far - the Tribes artwork is very dark. It's one of the few comics I owned previously and compared to the original all of Dorman's pieces have been (I assume unintentionally) darkened, and as a result a lot of details are obscured.

Some of the Aliens magazine covers included in the back are a lot darker than they actually were too.

[Prez]

Doesn't look like. There's no full page of Spears with his hand on a tank.

The added panel is in there, but not as part of the comic - it's included with the bonus material at the back. My copy just arrived

Says it was originally added to balance out the two-page spreads in the collected editions. Interesting, I always wondered why they stuck the extra page in there.

Usually printed books run in multiples of 4 pages ... it's why some books have extra blank pages ... a pain in the arse for designers like me (not so bad if you've got lotsa bonus material).

[StrangeShape]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cetdzHD8uFA

First look at the actual collection

I love to hear that the original characters have been restored.  👏

Oh that looks good. Wonder if the binding will hold for long, which is very often a problem for such incredibly thick books

[Hudson]

Anyone read through the action figure comics yet? My book is still in the mail and I'm pretty curious about these. Along with the Alien 3 adaptation.

[HuDaFuK]

Not in this, but I've read them online before.

They're completely daft, cheesy and childish, but admittedly kinda fun because of it. Just don't expect anything more than a Saturday morning cartoon in comic form.

The Alien 3 adaptation's mostly interesting for the deleted scenes it contains, some of which didn't even get into the extended cut, like Dillon's original death.

[BlueMarsalis79]

Love the covers of that adaptation.

[Corporal Hicks]

https://twitter.com/comichron/status/1402671532091002884?s=19

[Hudson]

Love the covers of that adaptation.

Absolutely. I love the other two as well, despite the weird turquoise sidebars on the third issue.

[Xiggz456]

https://twitter.com/comichron/status/1402671532091002884?s=19

As excited as I am about the upcoming show, the numbers Marvel has been doing may have helped green light a new film! They're making a killing off of Alien and illustrating the true appeal of the brand as well.