Aliens Omnibus, Vol. 1
by Mark Verheiden, Mark A. Nelson, Den Beauvais, Sam Keith
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Author: Den Beauvais, Mark A. Nelson, Mark Verheiden, Sam KeithBrand: Dark Horse Comics
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2007-07-03
ISBN: 1593077270
Number of pages: 384
Publisher: Dark Horse
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Book Review: What Fox missed
Summary: 5 Stars
It was a period of hell at Fox Studios between 1986 and 1992, James Cameron's squeal to the first "Alien" movie was a massive hit and it earn it's lead actress a Best Actress nomination from the Academy. Lighting had struck twice, a decade earlier Fox earn big bucks with the "Star Wars" trilogy, and it seemed like it was going to score another big time trilogy.
How seldom is it that dreams come true.
Fox Studios began fumbling over it's own feet. Close to a dozen scripts where written by ten different people over the next six years including scifi master William Gibson. They had to settle on a first time director and a mishmash of script, resulting in a lack-luster movie that left many fans with a bitter taste in their mouths.
During all these, a very good story was over looked.
In 1989 a new comic book company called Dark Horse, located in the sleepy suburb of Portland Oregon, scored a major licensing coup and got the rights to publish "Alien/Aliens" comic books. What they created in that year is what should have been the third and four and possible fifth alien films.
Between 89 and 90 Dark Horse published a trilogy that puts the characters of Hicks and Newt center stage, pen by veteran comic, film and television writer Mark Verheiden and illustrated by three different artist, this trilogy shifts the focus from Ripley to Hicks and Newt.
Starting ten years after the events of "Aliens" Hicks is a disillusions soldier, still stuck at the rank of corporal, and Newt is confined to mental hospital. Hick is given a chance to face his demons buy going to a newly discovered planet that had has the xenomorph monsters, the governments wants specimens but tells Hicks he can go on a rampage and kill everything on the planet after the mission is complete. Before going off on the mission Hicks gets wind of Newts confinement and up coming lobotomy. Not wanting the death of his fallow marines a decade earlier, Hicks breaks Newt out and smugglers her aboard, the mission to the alien planet takes an big turn as the Weyland-Yutani ship boarded with mercenary intercepts and captures the Marine ship, their reasoning, WY already has an Alien Queen on earth and want to keep their monopoly on a potential bio weapons market.
It all goes down hill from there.
This story arch is told across about fourteen issues divided into three parts with a lot of plot and themes mixed in these books, these aren't just straight up action or horror, it has deep themes about greed and survival and megalomania.
If Fox realized that these books excisted and adapted them, they would have a consumer gold mine on their hands.
Summary of Aliens Omnibus, Vol. 1
Dark Horse Comics took the industry by storm with its release of Aliens, a comics series that for the first time captured the power of film source material and expanded its universe in a way that fans applauded worldwide. Now, the first three Dark Horse Aliens series - Outbreak, Nightmare Asylum and Female War - are collected in a value-priced, quality-format omnibus, featuring nearly 400 story pages in full color. Written by screen and television scribe Mark Verheiden (The Mask, Battlsestar Gallactica) and illustrated with consummate skill by Mark A. Nelson, Den Beauvais and Sam Kieth, Aliens Omnibus Volume 1 is an essential piece of the Aliens mythos and a great entry point into the storied Dark Horse Aliens library.Horror Books
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