Why is this happening now? Image: Phillip Kennedy Johnson, Salvador Larroca/Marvel ComicsĬorporate logic. Given Danny’s pronounced distaste for Weyland-Yutani, we can safely assume that he’s not interested in paying them a friendly visit.Īnd, given that this is an Alien story, you can safely assume that things aren’t going to go well for Danny once he gets there.

Ostensibly Danny’s there to touch base, but in reality he’s there to dig for something that will gain him access to the Epsilon station. Upon returning to Earth from the Epsilon Orbital Research Station, Cruz meets with his shrink (a very familiar-looking android) and just as he’s working up the nerve to get in touch with his estranged son, Danny, the boy - now a purposeful young man - shows up at his house. Cruz is a haunted man, and he’s ready to make amends to the people he abandoned throughout his career. His allegiance to the corporation cost him his family, friends and - as we see in a grisly flashback that becomes more well-defined as the issue goes on - fellow soldiers. We are quickly introduced to one Gabriel Cruz, a Weyland-Yutani security chief who’s finally retiring after spending decades working for the infamous company. The year is 2200, which places us roughly 75 years beyond the events covered in the original trilogy of Alien films (in case there’s any confusion on the timeline, Alien #1 helpfully provides a cheat sheet of sorts several pages into this issue). The striking cover comes to us courtesy of Inyhuk Lee, while the colors were handled by GURU-eFX. The book’s written by Phillip Kennedy Johnson (whose name you may recall from Marvel Zombies: Resurrection and Empyre: Captain America), with artwork from Salvador Larroca (whose Marvel credits are considerable, including a lengthy run on Star Wars, The Uncanny X-Men and Doctor Doom).

That film, Alien, was a massive success, one which spawned a slew of sequels, video games, toys, lunchboxes, and comic books - you name it.įor a long time, Dark Horse was calling the shots on the comic book end of this spectrum, but now the Xenomorphs have a new publishing master: Marvel Comics. All the way back in 1979, Sir Ridley Scott introduced the world to a very small corner of a sci-fi universe where Facehuggers scampered, Chestbursters ruined otherwise lovely dinners, and Xenomorphs offered fatal french kisses in the dark.

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