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Posted by BlueMarsalis79
 - May 06, 2021, 06:18:16 PM
https://m.imgur.com/gallery/4yoGf

Check this out everyone!
Posted by The Old One
 - Mar 13, 2020, 04:34:44 PM
Absolutely perfect, loved the exploration of David's perspective beginning as innocent observation, and then becoming something else entirely from heaven to hell.
Posted by Delta Echo Alpha Delta
 - Mar 13, 2020, 03:12:03 PM


Remember the Alien design on the cover of the Art of Alien Covenant Book? Now you can purchase a limited edition print from Dane Hallett.

Just $50 AUD, doesn't include shipping.
Posted by The Old One
 - Mar 05, 2020, 02:00:34 AM
Just wanted to praise this again, so perfect, also updated my terminology section with official information:

Perfectus-Parasitus (Species)

Regular/Royal/Praeto Cavitatem Amnioticam (Egg)

Regular/Royal/Praeto Parasitus perfido (Facehugger)

Regular/Royal/Praeto Embryonis parasitus (Chestburster)

Regular/Royal/Praeto Parasitus infantem (Imp)

Parasitus praetomorph (Stalker)

Parasitus adulescentior (Soldier, Sentry)

Parasitus praetorian (Guard, Charger)

Perfectus-Parasitus procreatrix (Empress, Queen)
Posted by Nukiemorph
 - Jan 15, 2019, 07:06:08 PM
Finally sat down with the Covenant soundtrack and read through this.

A great art book, but not a whole lot of information to be learned.

He mostly just observes engineer biology as well as local plants and bugs.  He points to a few features that interested him, which apparently became parts of the aliens.

Honestly, I struggled to read the handwriting, but all of the text in the book and then some has been transcribed to these two posts:
https://imgur.com/gallery/4yoGf
https://imgur.com/gallery/1FfzS
Posted by Darwinsgirl
 - Oct 19, 2018, 04:14:26 AM

Your Welcome  :)  Thanks for your response.
Posted by Xenomrph
 - Oct 17, 2018, 07:59:57 AM
That's really fascinating, thanks for the info!
Posted by Darwinsgirl
 - Oct 15, 2018, 03:35:35 AM
Your welcome. I forgot to mention the film is from 1953. I read the article and it is not used in the text only the caption. I'm thinking the term in this context is from that era not 1978. The origin is much older according to a Wikipedia definition. I didn't save it as my interest in the ALIEN connection.
Posted by The Old One
 - Oct 15, 2018, 02:35:35 AM
 :o Thank you.
Posted by Darwinsgirl
 - Oct 15, 2018, 02:32:40 AM
Quote from: Xenomrph on Sep 15, 2018, 06:07:05 AM
Quote from: The Old One on Sep 14, 2018, 07:25:48 AM
Egg, Facehugger, Chestburster aren't terribly scientific though.

Don't get me started on how "Xenomorph" can apply to a variety of creatures, contextually within Aliens & A3 it works because it's referred to as "A Xenomorph" which would be correct. But the miscommunication that it's
"The Xenomorph" from then onwards is irritating to say the least.

Give me half an hour or there abouts and I could make more suitable threatening names with the Latin dictionary.
The Colonial Marines Tech Manual clarifies that "xenomorph" is, as you guessed, a USCM term that applies to any extraterrestrial organism that they don't know the capabilities of.
It's just that James Cameron chose such a unique but memorable word that it got permanently linked with the capital-A Alien as another name for it, independent of its in-context meaning.
If Cameron had used the word "extraterrestrial" in place of "xenomorph", we wouldn't even be having this conversation. :P

I wasn't sure where to post this. Here is a scan of a picture of a "xenomorph" from an article in the Feb.1978 issue of "Space Wars". I originally thought James Cameron created the term till I saw this article. So my search began looking for other use of this term. I got the film from the library watched it 3 times (in case I nodded off during viewing  ;)) also the special feature on the film. Xenomorph was not used in the movie "It Came From Outer Space". The original story the film was taken from was written by Ray Bradbury. There's a lovely book out about Ray Bradbury's story but its a limited edition the cheapest copy I found was $60 on ebay. So I will see if I can locate a copy via the library. Maybe in some future Q & A with James Cameron someone might ask where he first came across the term? :)
Posted by Frosty Venom
 - Oct 13, 2018, 11:28:45 AM
Has anyone gleaned any extra information on the untold part of David's journey and his experiments or that of the Engineers from this?
Posted by Delta Echo Alpha Delta
 - Oct 09, 2018, 11:44:41 AM
Quote from: Still Collating... on Oct 06, 2018, 03:24:29 PM
I don't remember that being mentioned in there? Though I do remember someone suggesting that idea, but how the hell does the black goo reanimate anything all of a sudden?  :laugh:

They introduced reanimation in Prometheus. A sort of nod to Frankenstein.


Shameless plug of my analysis of David's Drawings/Covenant Blu-ray

https://yutani.blog/2018/10/03/flora-cobra-lily/


Quote from: The Old One on Oct 08, 2018, 07:04:05 AM
& Alex White write it.

I have been petitioning he write a sequel to The Cold Forge... Now I want to drop that for him to write a novel about David and Shaw going to Planet 4.


Quote from: Still Collating... on Oct 07, 2018, 12:27:38 PM
I really do love this art book. It just adds so much to the tone of the movie. The book generates a unique atmosphere, a sense of mystery and dread.

I long for a novel about David, Shaw and the 10 years between Prometheus and Covenant...

Unfortunately no fanfics really come close to how crazy and scary it would be to be trapped with David on a dead planet.
Posted by Xenomrph
 - Oct 08, 2018, 08:41:24 PM
Quote from: Still Collating... on Oct 08, 2018, 05:05:09 PM
Hell yes! That man knows how to write characters superbly well. Of course there's no guarantee that it would be as good as The Cold Forge, but if it was, it'd be kinda funny to get a prequel tie-in novel that's written better than the prequels themselves.     :laugh:
Stuff that's better than the source material isn't unheard of - I've had a running joke that one of my top videogames that I'd like to see adapted into a movie is 'X-Men Origins: Wolverine'. :P
Posted by Still Collating...
 - Oct 08, 2018, 05:05:09 PM
Hell yes! That man knows how to write characters superbly well. Of course there's no guarantee that it would be as good as The Cold Forge, but if it was, it'd be kinda funny to get a prequel tie-in novel that's written better than the prequels themselves.     :laugh:
Posted by The Old One
 - Oct 08, 2018, 05:00:40 PM
Petition! :laugh:
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