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Posted by Xenomrph
 - May 28, 2019, 12:48:15 AM
Quote from: HuDaFuK on May 27, 2019, 04:43:22 PM
Quote from: Xenomrph on May 26, 2019, 12:53:47 PMLabyrinth is the best, and anyone who disagrees will be the first ones against the wall when the revolution starts.

The flashback is the best... The rest of the comic is entirely meh.
The flashback is crazy and it's what everyone remembers, but it kind of overshadows the other interesting stuff that's going on. Like everything up to the flashback plays right into predictable story tropes, like "the obviously evil scientist who's hiding something", de-mystifying the Alien by explaining things about it, Church literally taking an Alien for a walk and thereby diminishing it, but then once you get into the third issue it starts knocking all of those tropes down. What the scientist is hiding ends up being more f**ked up than anything anyone could have imagined AND it has nothing to do with the Aliens, the demystifying elements of the Alien end up being irrelevant because they only barely work on weakened Aliens in captivity, the very Alien that Church takes for a walk is the one that takes him down, and in the end Church gets away with everything. Church was doing f**ked up human experimentation and getting away with it over twenty years before Alien Covenant was a twinkle in Ridley Scott's eye.
Posted by Kradan
 - May 27, 2019, 11:30:29 PM
Quote from: Xenomrph on May 27, 2019, 12:09:42 AM
Quote from: Kradan on May 26, 2019, 11:46:55 PM
Quote from: Xenomrph on May 26, 2019, 12:53:47 PM
Quote from: The Old One on May 26, 2019, 08:00:05 AM
Dead Orbit's the best you cretin. :D
Labyrinth is the best, and anyone who disagrees will be the first ones against the wall when the revolution starts.

Would you mind if i'll hold the pistol?
That depends, do you think Labyrinth is the best Aliens comic?

CHOOSE WISELY.

I'll go with Labyrinth. I like Dead Orbit but for me Labyrinth is superior in terms of story and artwork.
Posted by Nostromo
 - May 27, 2019, 04:49:24 PM
Quote from: Still Collating... on May 27, 2019, 04:15:39 PM
Liked the recent stuff, but Labyrinth is my favorite as well...

Simple mad scientist story done effectively IMO, creepy and the visuals are remarkable!

Damn, I'm agreeing with everything you write, somebody give this man something.
Posted by HuDaFuK
 - May 27, 2019, 04:43:22 PM
Quote from: Xenomrph on May 26, 2019, 12:53:47 PMLabyrinth is the best, and anyone who disagrees will be the first ones against the wall when the revolution starts.

The flashback is the best... The rest of the comic is entirely meh.
Posted by Still Collating...
 - May 27, 2019, 04:15:39 PM
Liked the recent stuff, but Labyrinth is my favorite as well...

Simple mad scientist story done effectively IMO, creepy and the visuals are remarkable!
Posted by Xenomrph
 - May 27, 2019, 12:09:42 AM
Quote from: Kradan on May 26, 2019, 11:46:55 PM
Quote from: Xenomrph on May 26, 2019, 12:53:47 PM
Quote from: The Old One on May 26, 2019, 08:00:05 AM
Dead Orbit's the best you cretin. :D
Labyrinth is the best, and anyone who disagrees will be the first ones against the wall when the revolution starts.

Would you mind if i'll hold the pistol?
That depends, do you think Labyrinth is the best Aliens comic?

CHOOSE WISELY.
Posted by Kradan
 - May 26, 2019, 11:46:55 PM
Quote from: Xenomrph on May 26, 2019, 12:53:47 PM
Quote from: The Old One on May 26, 2019, 08:00:05 AM
Dead Orbit's the best you cretin. :D
Labyrinth is the best, and anyone who disagrees will be the first ones against the wall when the revolution starts.

Would you mind if i'll hold the pistol?
Posted by Monster Man
 - May 26, 2019, 10:55:30 PM
Quote from: Xenomrph on May 26, 2019, 12:53:47 PM
Quote from: The Old One on May 26, 2019, 08:00:05 AM
Dead Orbit's the best you cretin. :D
Labyrinth is the best, and anyone who disagrees will be the first ones against the wall when the revolution starts.

Do the stars need to align for another comic to be done by them? I'm genuinely surprised it stopped at Labyrinth.
Posted by Xenomrph
 - May 26, 2019, 12:53:47 PM
Quote from: The Old One on May 26, 2019, 08:00:05 AM
Dead Orbit's the best you cretin. :D
Labyrinth is the best, and anyone who disagrees will be the first ones against the wall when the revolution starts.
Posted by Russ840
 - May 26, 2019, 11:45:55 AM
Quote from: The Old One on May 26, 2019, 08:00:05 AM
Dead Orbit's the best you cretin. :D

  ^
This.

Minus the cretin part  :laugh:
Posted by The Old One
 - May 26, 2019, 08:00:05 AM
Dead Orbit's the best you cretin. :D
Posted by Xenomrph
 - May 26, 2019, 04:42:14 AM
Quote from: SM on May 23, 2019, 11:26:43 PM
Quote from: Monster Man on May 23, 2019, 10:52:45 PM
Quote from: King geedorah on May 23, 2019, 05:13:29 AM
id love an expanded story about a defective alien "protecting" a human. At the same time I totally get why someone would hate the idea.

You can always pull an Alien 3 by having the main character infected with a queen alien to justify it being protective.

The next step is make the queen a stillbirth thus 'defective' and decaying within' the person unbeknownst to the alien. You can add some nutty psychosexual context to all this while the MC is slowly losing his/her mind due to isolation. The crux of the story is the character searching for ways to remove said chestburster knowing it could draw the ire of her guardian angel, while at the same time the planet they're on is filled to the brim with hostile life and the alien is perfectly adapted to wrecking house if need be, forcing this kind of fragile dichotomy ultimately.

You could use the thyroid condition Ann Crispin came up with to explain Purvis' delayed bursting in the Resurrection novel.
Or the leprosy angle from the older comics.

I finally read this and burned through it in one sitting, I liked it quite a bit. The opening with the destruction and chaos gave me 'Dead Space' vibes (specifically the prequel comic and Dead Space: Extraction for the first game, and the chaos early in Dead Space 2 on Titan Station), and the constant momentum with very little breathing room was engaging. I liked the artwork for the most part - it was consistently dark and ominous, but clear enough to know what was going on.

The "mom Alien", though.... I think I'd have liked it more if it was handled more ambiguously. Like, the idea gets talked about and one of the characters basically says "that's stupid, and you're stupid for theorizing it", which was a step in the right direction. There was the bit where the Alien tackles Maxon and doesn't quite get a chance to harm him before the swinging arm thing knocks it away, and that was the kind of ambiguity I liked.
And then the Alien fights the Queen at the end and I went "lolwut". :(

All in all I liked it more than Dead Orbit or any of F&S/L&D, and the second half of Defiance.
Posted by Whiskeybrewer
 - May 25, 2019, 11:28:37 AM
Sold. I want that series or One Shot
Posted by The Old One
 - May 24, 2019, 07:59:44 PM
It's interesting for sure.
Posted by Still Collating...
 - May 24, 2019, 07:35:11 PM
Quote from: Monster Man on May 23, 2019, 10:52:45 PM
Quote from: King geedorah on May 23, 2019, 05:13:29 AM
id love an expanded story about a defective alien "protecting" a human. At the same time I totally get why someone would hate the idea.

You can always pull an Alien 3 by having the main character infected with a queen alien to justify it being protective.

The next step is make the queen a stillbirth thus 'defective' and decaying within' the person unbeknownst to the alien. You can add some nutty psychosexual context to all this while the MC is slowly losing his/her mind due to isolation. The crux of the story is the character searching for ways to remove said chestburster knowing it could draw the ire of her guardian angel, while at the same time the planet they're on is filled to the brim with hostile life and the alien is perfectly adapted to wrecking house if need be, forcing this kind of fragile dichotomy ultimately.

Now this sounds like an awesome premise! IMO everything is logically explained yet the situation allows for interesting and new behavior from both the main character and Alien.
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