Intro
Starting with the first comic book in 1988, the then-two-year old Dark Horse Comics released a variety of limited series, one-shots, and short tales set in the Alien universe, (following Heavy Metal's Alien: The Illustrated Story), instead of continuing as an endless series. This was done to allow for new creative blood and the freedom to change creative direction on a regular basis, to avoid filler concerns or creative staleness, and to compensate for possible/inevitable scheduling delays between series.
For the first three miniseries, the first two comics series (Aliens: Book One and Aliens: Book Two) had Rebecca Jorden and Corporal Dwayne Hicks as the major protagonists, but the third (Aliens: Earth War) reintroduced Lt. Ellen Ripley as well. One of the primary aspects of the Aliens comics series was an Alien infestation that had spread to Earth, which was the subject of this series.
Rebecca Jorden, Corporal Dwayne Hicks, and Lt. Ellen Ripley died in the film Alien3. Dark Horse Comics changed the names—and hence identities—of these lead characters in all reprints and collected editions of the first three miniseries, as well as their associated novelizations, in order to keep the events in the story relevant to the Alien universe. Rebecca Jorden was transformed into Billie, Corporal Dwayne Hicks was transformed into Wilks, and Lt. Ellen Ripley was transformed into a synthetic replica of the heroine.
The changes were actually first incorporated into a novelized adaptation of the first Aliens series entitled Aliens: Earth Hive. The comics themselves were then renamed in reprint versions to their present titles: Aliens: Outbreak, Aliens: Nightmare Asylum and Aliens: Female War. The first series was also recolored, as Book One had originally been published in black and white.
In all following Aliens comics, the effects of the Alien infestation on Earth would continue to play a prominent or minor role, but beginning with the fourth miniseries (Aliens: Genocide), the stories would shift to new people and events in the Aliens universe.
Many Aliens stories would follow, containing work by some of the industry's biggest names and combining a wide range of graphic styles, from black and white to painted airbrush to traditional comic book artwork. This includes cross-company collaborations, most notably with DC Comics. This continued until the release of Aliens: Xenogenesis in 1999.
Dark Horse Comics resurrected its Aliens line with a new limited series in 2009, after a ten-year sabbatical.
After purchasing the publishing licence to the Alien property, Marvel Comics began publishing stories set in the universe by 2021, seemingly continuing as an endless series.
This list includes comics, graphic novels, and novelizations of such works. Refer to the Titles list for all other media.
Alien: The Illustrated Story
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Two of comics’ greatest talents joined forces in 1979 to bring Ridley Scott’s epic Alien to the comic book page.
Heavy Metal presented a two-part preview of the book at the beginning of their third year of publication, in the May and June 1979 issues of the magazine. To read the following 45 pages you had to buy the book.
Alien: The Movie PhotoNovel
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Alien: The Movie Novel was billed as a “special edition photonovel” (popular in the 1970s and early 1980s) and was an over-sized book with a whopping 1,000 + photos from the film.
The photonovel or "movie novel" adaptation of Alien is comparable in format to a comic book, in that it uses a series of sequential images annotated with text, typically dialogue, to tell the story. However, instead of using original artwork as would a comic, it instead uses still images taken from the film itself.
A Bolygó Neve: Halál
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An unlicensed comic adaptation of James Cameron's Aliens (aside from Dark Horse's Newt's Tale).
A Bolygó Neve: Halál is the title of the movie in Hungarian, and means 'The Aliens.'
Aliens / Aliens Book 1 / Outbreak
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This series was set in the fictional Alien universe and was originally intended as a direct sequel and continuation to Aliens. It featured Rebecca Jorden and Corporal Dwayne Hicks after the events of Aliens. A later series also included the further adventures of Lt. Ellen Ripley. Subsequent reprints and novelizations changed the names—and hence identities—of these lead characters:. Rebecca Jorden was transformed into Billie, Corporal Dwayne Hicks was transformed into Wilks, and Lt. Ellen Ripley was transformed into a synthetic replica of the heroine.
Released to tremendous fan response, the series became an early hit for the two-year old Dark Horse Comics, inaugurating a whole series of Aliens comics for the company. It became part one of a three part story arc continued in Nightmare Asylum and concluded in Aliens: Earth Hive with the short spin-off story Aliens: Theory of Alien Propagation.
Aliens, Vol. 1: Outbreak:
- Wilks was a space marine with a near-fatal flaw: he had a heart. Billie was a child, the only survivor of a far-flung colony outpost. Thrown together in the last hellish night of an Kiande Amedha invasion, Billie and Wilks helped each other get out alive. Thirteen years later, Wilks is in prison and Billie lives in a mental institution, the nightmare memories of the massacre at Rim seared into her mind. Now the pair get a chance to be reunited. To go back to that outpost where it all happened, to finally end the business between themselves . . . and the Kiande Amedha.
- This is the very first of the remastered Aliens trade paperbacks! Dark Horse is going back through each of its past Aliens graphic novels and revising images and text to bring the entire story into a single line of continuity with the motion pictures and the wildly popular Bantam novels.
- Once a black-and-white collection, this remastered edition boasts full-color art, an updated script, a new John Bolton cover, and a gallery of never-before-seen Mark A. Nelson art! Get ready for the remastered line!
Aliens: Theory of Alien Propagation
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The story is about a document told by Aliens: Outbreak character Dr. Waidslaw Orona on the reproductive cycle of the Kiande Amedha, their life and development.
It shows Kiande Amedha spreading via impregnation, and also building one of their Hives.
Aliens / Aliens Book 2 / Nightmare Asylum
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Wilks, Billie, and Bueller were the last survivors of a devastating assault on the Kiande Amedha’ home planet. But their return to the solar system made them refugees once more, fleeing earth and its Kiande Amedha infestation in a desperate attempt to stay alive. Now, in an otherwise unmanned military transport, they hurtle through space, destination: unknown, while in the cargo hold they carry with them a legacy of death they thought they’d left behind!
Aliens: Advent/Terminus
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- #42: Dark Horse comics premiere anthology presents in this issue the beginning of a two-part Aliens saga, by Heartbreakers co-creator Paul Guinan!
- #43: Paul Guinan's all-new Aliens tale of an extraterrestrial treasure hunting expedition concludes as a vengeance-crazed cyborg leads them in a fight for survival.
Do Aliens Dream?
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Do Aliens Dream? is a comic book short story that was published by Argus House in its UK-based Skeleton Crew magazine. It was not solicited or published by Dark Horse Comics, by rather by British publisher Argus House.
It features no dialogue, and is presented entirely from the point of view of a Xenomorph, following the creature from the time it hatches as a Facehugger, through to impregnating a host and emerging as a Chestburster, before fleeing to a Hive inside an Atmosphere Processor on a planet that may or may not be LV-426.
Aliens: Countdown
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In 2195, their mission had gone from bad to worse... and it just deteriorated. Three Marines, now officially designated 'non-vita's, have been left behind by their buddies to deal with the marauding Kiande Amedha who have set up home in an abandoned police precinct. Their predicament appears hopeless, and to make matters more desperate, one of the earlier survivors of an Kiande Amedha attack has triggered a nuclear self-destruct device in the complex with no over-ride.
Their only chance is to make it to their ship on the other side of the precinct, but they have to run the gauntlets of Kiande Amedha ambushes and even face a group of 'non-vital' Marines-turned-mercenaries, to get there. The Kiande Amedha take care of the renegades, allowing the trio to escape into the bowels of the base... only to confront an angry Queen and her drones. Yet again they manage a narrow getaway, this time to find that their rig has been trashed and the police are anxious for some straight answers.
Aliens: Reapers
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It's the greatest single-issue blow-out of all time! Dark Horse Comics cordially invites you to a 112-page birthday bash celebrating this critically-acclaimed title's fifth anniversary and presenting all of the stand-alone stories from the past issues as well as brand new stories written and illustrated by many of the absolute top talents in the comics industry.
Aliens: Aliens
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The President of the United States and his ministers are called to Gateway Station, where they are appointed to meet with the Space Jockey who is orbiting the Earth and reshaping the planet through terraforming. The meeting is actually an assassination attempt that helps free humanity from potential subjugation.
Aliens: Earth War / Aliens Book 3 / Female War
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Billie only wanted what all children want — the warmth and security of family, the human connectedness that comes from belonging. What she got was a nightmare without end.
Lieutenant Ellen Ripley awakens from her long journey in space with a hole in her memory and an overwhelming drive to survive. When she meets Wilks and Billie, the two battered veterans in the war against the kiande amedha, she realizes she's found two comrades in arms--and she's ready to take up the fight. Only then does she discover the devastating secret that lurks behind her long sleep. When she, Wilks and Billie prepare to meet the kiande amedha head-on in order to turn a powerful Queen against her spawn in a battle intended to save Earth, that secret becomes her greatest weapon--and her greatest liability. As the fate of Earth hangs in the balance, Ripley and Billie must come to terms with what it means to be alien...and what it means to be human.
Earth War concluded the three part story arc begun in Aliens (Series 1) and followed by Aliens (Series 2).
Aliens Magazine (UK)
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Aliens Magazine two-volume, "oversized" (12 x 8) format comics magazine published in the United Kingdom.
Originally, the magazine under Trident Comics served simply as a means to publish serialized reprints of Dark Horse Comics' existing American Aliens, Predator and AvP comic books for the UK market. Despite the publication's name, it included Predator and Aliens vs. Predator comics as well as Aliens stories. With issue 12, the comic's design was overhauled and the length increased from 48 pages to 64, allowing more comics and/or bigger installments to feature. The final issue published by Trident Comics was issue 16; when Dark Horse Comics started their UK-based Dark Horse International branch, they took over the license for the magazine and subsequently published issues themselves. With a new publisher came an entirely new layout, and as a result the magazine's reprint of Aliens: Book One ended in issue 16 before it was complete. Trident Comics went out of business in 1992.
After Dark Horse International took over the publication, the final issue of Volume 1 (#17) sported an all-new design and content. Following issue 17, Dark Horse restarted the series as Volume 2. Volume 2 continued with serialized reprints of Dark Horse's existing Aliens, Predator and AvP comic books from America, although the focus shifted to Aliens comics exclusively. (Serialized reprints of Predator and Aliens vs. Predator comics were instead moved to a new home in Dark Horse International's anthology magazine Total Carnage.) Volume 2 saw a marked increase in the amount of original material created for the publication.
Financial troubles at Dark Horse International ultimately led to the company going out of business and the magazine being cancelled before its projected run was finished. The cancellation left the magazine's original serialized story Aliens: Crusade unfinished, and its planned graphic novella Aliens: Matrix unreleased.
In late 1992, Dark Horse International also released a three-issue spin-off magazine entitled Alien3 Movie Special.
Aliens: Hive / Harvest
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Stanislaw Mayakovsky once wrote a book about the cybernetic ant he designed to infiltrate an Kiande Amedha Hive in order to gain precious knowledge about the species. Now, a beautiful young thief has approached Mayakovsky to use his experience and expertise — not in the pursuit of scientific knowledge, but in the pursuit of the Queen’s precious jelly. The mission is a perilous one, but the motives are compelling...
Story happens after the Earth War and prior to Aliens: Stronghold. As Royal Jelly and Xeno-Zip is mentioned, meaning it’s after 2212. It features the first appearance of a synthetic Alien, Mayakovsky's creation Norbert.
Cyberantics: A Little Adventure
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Cyberantics is an in-universe black-and-white children's book Cyberantics: A Little Adventure "written by" Aliens: Hive's lead character Stanislaw Mayakovsky (actually Prosser) about his experimentation with a cybernetic ant, created by him with the intention of infiltrating an ant colony.
Aliens: Tribes
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The Queen is Dead. An orbiting medical facility infested with a kiande amedha scourge. A military clean-up crew dispatched to destroy them. A berserk warrior in a lethal exoskeleton with enough fire power to kill them all. A race against time. Long Live the Queen.
Aliens: Newt's Tale
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Adapted from writer/director James Cameron's original screenplay, Aliens: Newt's Tale includes all of the action you never saw in the movie. The series retells the film's story entirely from the perspective of Newt - from the discovery of the Derelict extraterrestrial spacecraft by Newt's parents, to the kiande amedha attack on the colony of Hadley's Hope!
Aliens: Renegade
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A peaceful, distant colony world settlement is visited by mercenaries, Commanding officer Javier Milan, Executive Officer Moira Delgado of the Descartes Indigenous Self-Defense Forces, who threaten to take over the entire planet. The leader of the colony, Caleb Deschanel, sends a woman named Ash Parnall, aka Renegade, to deal with the outsiders.
Aliens: Horror Show
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While Earth is still infested with Kiande Amedha (as seen in Aliens: Outbreak), people living on the moon are inexplicably haunted by dreams of Kiande Amedha, which one man is recording and selling to another.
Alien3: Terminal Addiction
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This comic short story was created to advertise the Alien3 SNES video game. It shows a boy playing the Alien3 video game on his SNES console, and somehow gets sucked into the game itself. After fighting off Kiande Amedha with assault rifles and flamethrowers, he is finally subdued by a Facehugger, only to suddenly awake and realize the entire experience was a hallucination. But as he sits in front of his TV, a Kiande Amedha emerges from the shadows behind him...
The Game Boy comic is similar. A boy spends all his time on the game, so much he fails to be aware of his surroundings and bumps into people while walking and playing. He eventually goes so far as to dress in a similar fashion to the prisoners on Fiorini 161 and shave his head, until he is attacked by a real Kiande Amedha.
Kenner Aliens
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Issues 1-12 featured the post-Aliens adventures of Ellen Ripley and the Space Marines. Issue 13 concluded the series with an Aliens vs. Predator themed comic.
These comics are colorful, lighthearted, child-friendly fare aimed at younger readers derived from Kenner's proposed Kenner's Aliens toy line.
The first eight mini-comics in the series — from Desert Storm to Fireball — form one continuous story line, following the Space Marines as they battle the Kiande Amedha scourge across the galaxy, with each installment typically ending on a cliffhanger that is then picked up in the next comic.
The next four — from Night Strike to Ice Storm — continued the story.
The Space Marines play no part in Issue 13, which instead features a stand-alone story pitting the Kiande Amedha and Yautja against each other in a battle for supremacy.
Kenner's Aliens: Space Marines ignores the events of Alien3 and the fate of the Marines in Aliens.
Operation: Aliens
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It is important to note that there simply was no Operation: Aliens series in development and there was no long lost pilot episode.
Kenner approached Fox with the idea of doing a series to coincide with their action figure releases but there were concerns over broadcasting standards issues Fox would face with the concept.
As for the pilot series screen grabs: the Alien animation artwork were actually from an unaired commercial animation Will Meugniot produced. Ultimately the animated commercials wouldn’t be aired on television. Instead Kenner opted to go with live action trailer, showing kids playing with the figures.
Operation: Aliens did appear as a Den Beauvais illustrated sub-set of the Aliens/Predator Universe trading card set released in 1994.
Aliens: Colonial Marines
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Meet Lt. Joseph Henry; the son of one of the most influential politicians on Earth, a proud member of the USCM, and a poor slob in a heap of trouble. Lt. Henry, after yet again being charged with insubordination, is put in command of a platoon of the absolute worst Marines in the sector and assigned the lowest detail in the corp — checking up on a toxic waste dump! What Lt. Henry and company don’t know is that this mission is about to go from bad to worse, because a strangely organized batch of kiande amedha has taken over the waste dump!
The Colonial Marines story takes place after the Alien infestation of Earth, the events aboard the Innominata and the destruction of Charon Station. The series also featured the apearance of the first relative of a character from the Aliens film series with Carmen Vasquez, younger sister of the eminently popular character of J. Vasquez from the film Aliens.
Aliens: Colonial Marines featured a number of firsts for the Aliens universe, including the first depiction of Aliens adapting to their environment based on the animals they gestate in in the form of the sea-faring Aliens of the planet Bracken's World, the mutagenic effects of the Queen's royal jelly on humans, and the introduction of the popular Alien-killing mercenary Herk Mondo in issue #6. (Mondo would go on to star in two one-shots of his own in following years.)
Continuity-wise there are references to numerous events and characters from various other Aliens comics stories including Outbreak, Nightmare Asylum, Earth War, Rogue, Newt's Tale, Labyrinth, and others.
Aliens: Sacrifice
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Stranded on an isolated planet, Ann McKay takes shelter in a remote village that is being terrorized by an Kiande Amedha. She soon discovers that its inhabitants are hiding a horrifying secret from her. But to discover the truth she has to face her own innermost demons, and try to save the souls of the villagers at the same time.
The story is set sometime after the Kiande Amedha infestation of Earth.
Aliens: Rogue
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What kind of man could torture an Kiande Amedha? Professor Ernst Kleist has genetically engineered powerful, obedient Rogue King. The horror of nature is dwarfed by the terror of a man who would toy with it. Welcome to the former penal colony of Charon, now an Alien hive where Kleist rules, whose speciality is making people disappear. Captain Joyce Palmer and her marines are bound for Charon to stop Kleist, and only they too can stop his creation, the Rogue King.
Rogue takes place after the Kiande Amedha infestation of Earth and the Grant Corporation's first mission to the Kiande Amedha homeworld. Rogue introducing a number of new concepts and characters who would go on to be referenced by other in-universe stories, such as the Rogue King, and the mad scientist Ernst Kleist.
Aliens: Taste
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This month Dark Horse Comics takes you from the bottom of the ocean to the jungles of Africa, from the pyramids of Egypt to the depths of outer space. This globe- (and galaxy-) spanning issue features the fathomless cunning of Kiande Amedha.
A giant Alien creature gets an Alien Ovomorph hatching throws it on a grill for consumption. As we’re treated to anonymous monologue on taste, we see an Alien Ovomorph hatching only to be caught and thrown onto a grill by a giant Alien creature.
Aliens: Backsplash
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#12: It was supposed to be an easy job. With a Particle Plasma Projector, you can literally vaporize any Kiande Amedha where it stands. But there's always a few hundred more Kiande Amedha than you think. Don't miss this exciting two-part tale of the perfect mission gone bad.
#13: Okay, what are the odds here? A small group of USCM, deep underground, with no usable transport and minimal firepower. Forty bazillion ill-tempered Kiande Amedha. Could be bad. Find out for sure.
Aliens: Labyrinth
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Rumor has it that the crew members of space station Innominata are expendable and can be used in clandestine experiments. Rumor has it that Paul Church, the Colonel Doctor in charge of the research facility, has been running tests to determine what makes the Kiande Amedha tick and that he’s using USCM as bait. Well, the U. S. Government doesn’t like rumors — they like facts. And so they’ve sent Colonel Doctor Anthony Crespi to investigate. He’s empowered to get the truth any way he can. His goal is to find a way that will get him off that station alive.
A video game sequel, Aliens: A Comic Book Adventure was released on 1995.
Aliens: Backsplash featured a continuing adventure of one of the characters from this story.
Aliens: Salvation
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Selkirk, a God-fearing crewman aboard the space freighter Nova Maru, is forced at gunpoint to abandon ship with his captain. They crash-land on a small planet, but it is soon apparent that they have not entirely escaped the Nova Maru's dreadful cargo.
Aliens: Cargo
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#15: Gerald Coile was a smuggler of Kiande Amedha products — Royal Jelly, Xeno-Zip, and... other "things." It was a lucrative occupation, but without retirement benefits, so he arranged his own retirement benefits via the Drug Enforcement Agency. In part 1, he discovers that such a plan definitely has a down side.
#16: In part 2, Coile realizes being trapped with an Kiande Amedha isn't as bad as he thought — after all, he has his wits and a five-minute head start. What more do you need when you're faced with the universe's most voracious and hungry Kiande Amedha?
Aliens: Music of the Spears
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The story takes place after the Alien infestation of Earth.
New York City, 2214: Little-known and under-appreciated composer Damon Eddington will shock the world with his newest composition, Symphony of Hate. Wrapped within its bizarre music can be found the most tortured of human s ounds, combined with the razor-steel screams of a Homeworld Kiande Amedha. Yet the supreme cry continues to elude him. Damon knows that the sound he seeks lies deep inside the ruthless creature he has named Mozart. And he will stop at nothing to free it.
The novelization of Music of the Spears added a number of details to the story, including a set date for the events therein.
Aliens: Alien
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DHC #18 Aliens cover by Randy Stradley.
To his tribe, Suom isn't yet a man. But he has seen the Night Reaper, whose hideous reign of fear and death strikes at night and steals away by morning. Only Suom has seen the face of the Reaper and survived, and only he can conquer this beast in part one of "Alien," featuring beautiful art by Paul Mendoza and the story of a horrifying coming of age by John Arcudi.
Dark Horse Comics #18 features part 2 of "Alien," John Arcudi's terrifying tale of a village ripped apart by the mysterious Night Reaper. Young Suom and his hunting party finally locate the beast, but it may be the last thing they ever do.
Aliens: Genocide
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This series continuing on the events established in Aliens: Book One (1988), Aliens: Book Two (1989) and Aliens: Earth War (1990),
After a generation of rebuilding in the wake of Kiande Amedha infestation, athletes from every corner of earth are flocking to the Goodwill Games. But some come with a dangerous new tool: a drug called Fire, distilled from the very essence of the Kiande Amedha’ body chemistry. The military wants it. The pharmaceutical conglomerates want it. And the only place the essential ingredient can be found is on a world convulsed by Kiande Amedha holocaust.
Genocide was the first Aliens comic to shift the focus away from existing movie characters -- such as the Queen's secretions forming an addictive substance for humans. It is also one of the few series--along with Aliens: The Alien and Aliens: Crusade- to deal with, illustrate and explain the developements on Earth after its infestation by xenomorphs and show how the Earth was able to recover.
Aliens: Matrix
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Aliens: Matrix is a graphic novel that was planned for publication but never actually released, as Aliens Magazine #21 was the last issue ever published due to Dark Horse's British publishing partner at the time, Trident Comics, going out of business.
Aliens: Stronghold
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Dr. Caspar Nordling is developing a micro-organism that is deadly to Kiande Amedha, but not to people. He’s had a lot of luck engineering selective viruses to kill rats and weevils, but this is something altogether different. Highly speculative. Highly volatile. Just like the doctor himself. In a remote sector of the galaxy, on an isolated Grant-Corp space station, the thin line between science and horror is narrowing, and Philip and Joy Strunk, two company employees, are finding themselves on the short end of the cut.
The story takes place after the Kiande Amedha infestation of Earth, and Stanislaw Mayakovsky's creation of the synthetic Alien, Norbert.
Jeri references the events of Harvest as if they happened some time ago.
Aliens: Mondo Pest
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Issue #22: You better stock up on ammo, because in this issue of Dark Horse Comics, a new solo adventure of Herk Mondo, that cigar-chomping, tail-kicking Kiande Amedha-hunter extraordinaire! Mondo answers a general distress call, hoping for a hefty bit of dosh from a bunch of grateful colonists, but finds himself at the business end of the planetary defense system... All this and bugs too!
Issue #23: A wounded Herk Mondo escapes from the underground Hive, but finds the terraformer colony overrun with Kiande Amedha!
Issue #24: This issue of DHC also brings you the action-packed conclusion as Herk heads into the Hive for one last confrontation with more Kiande Amedha than even he can count.
Aliens: Earth Angel
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Into the age of diners, black leather jackets, and Buddy Holly comes a monster worse than any that ever made popcorn fly in front of a drive-in screen — the Alien.
Legend creator John Byrne has long been a fan of the Aliens films and he jumped at the opportunity to tell his story of the first kiande amedha invasion, the one that took place in 1950's suburban America! When you Byrne a kiande amedha, you gotta figure it's gonna give off some heat!
Aliens: Berserker / Aliens: Frenzy
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Story occurs one year after Aliens vs Predator #1-4.
The Berserker Unit is a ragtag collection of cons who have shortened their incarnation time by debugging--clearing out Kiande Amedha nests throughout space. Their extermination process depends on Max the Berserker--a mindless, near lifeless man whose armored suit of destruction is the most powerful debugging device known. But when a combination of sedatives and adrenaline dulls Max's power, the Berserker Unit alone must face the stunning wrath of the species they nearly destroyed.
Aliens: Incubation
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Issue #101: Editor Bob Schreck continues to mix it up in Dark Horse Presents, the greatest anthology on the market! Where else could you find one of the most talented macabre artists of the century drawing one of the coolest monsters of film and comics? Bernie Wrightson teams up with red-hot Spiderman author Ron Marz for a two-part Aliens story! This is the finest pen-and-ink work you're likely to see this year, and the creepiest interpretation of the big bugs in a long time.
Issue #102: In this conclusion, the extraterrestrial scientists from last issue become fodder for the big bug, and their ship crashes into an earth jungle. Notables Bernie Wrightson and Ron Marz turn in a fast-moving, suspenseful, and beautifully rendered tale of everyone's favorite exoskeletal carnivores.
Superman/Aliens
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Issue #1: He came to earth in a rocket, a strange visitor from another planet. Now, years later, signals from space could be the beginning of a trail to his home planet Krypton. Can anything stop a Man of Steel from discovering his long-lost heritage? Can anything stand between a Superman and that which he longs for most? How about the most feared and deadly species in the galaxy?
Issue #2: In the far corners of space, Earth's yellow sun is a distant memory to Superman. Without its nurturing glow, his powers are fading fast. Will they hold out long enough for him to save the domed city of Argo from an infestation of Kiande Amedha, or is The Man of Steel doomed to die amongst what may be the ruins of his long-lost Krypton?
Issue #3: Away from the nurturing yellow sun, his powers fading fast, Superman struggles to stay alive amongst the Kiande Amedha-infested ruins of Argo. But the real threat isn't the Queen that's stalking him; it's the Chestburster planted inside him! Can he beat the bug inside his chest, or is he doomed to die on a distant planet?
Aliens: Mondo Heat
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When you've got a major infestation of Kiande Amedha, and the USCM are nowhere in sight, you won't find a better "exterminator" than Herk Mondo. But Herk's got a couple of big problems: he's completely unarmed in the middle of the infestation, and he's got an active volcano ready to blow beneath his feet! You can be sure of one thing, though the volcano may blow, but Herk will keep his cool.
Aliens: Lucky
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Mark Verheiden and Mark A. Nelson's Aliens is a landmark in comics history — that project redefined the entire concept of licensed comics and terrified an entire generation of comics readers in the process. Now they're back with an all-new Aliens tale for Dark Horse's tenth-anniversary celebration.
In 2199, an unscrupulous crewman struggles to survive aboard a large, Kiande Amedha infested ship.
Aliens: Lovesick
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Eleven-year-old Jimi has a crush on his older cousin Nancy, who's a pilot for creepy Dr. Dakien, who also has the hots for Nancy. Unbeknownst to Nancy, Dakien's not just creepy, he's completely mad, and Nancy's rejection has driven him off the deep end. He's killed himself to set in motion a plan to go after Nancy and Jimi! Between rescuing Jimi, staving off Dakien's cybernetic doppelgänger, and battling the Kiande Amedha Dakien has unleashed, there may not be enough Nancy to go around.
Aliens: Headhunters
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Two retirement-minded bounty hunters hope to make some quick cash by selling Kiande Amedha skulls in "Headhunters," an all-new story by super-scribe Mike W. Barr and legendary artist Gene Colan.
Aliens: Pig
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"In space, no one can hear you squeal."
Stitch and his band of space pirates have designs on looting the wreckage of a crashed ore tug before the rightful owners can arrive to salvage the valuable cargo. The problem: a nest of Kiande Amedha has set up housekeeping near the wrecked tug. Stitch's solution: a cute little pig carrying a low-yield nuke wired to a remote detonator. Not since Babe has so much rested on the outcome of a porker's performance. How about a little bacon with your Ovomorphs?
Batman/Aliens
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He's seen many faces of terror from his watch over Gotham City — he's seen murderous clowns, strange creatures, and all forms of killer psychopaths. But he's never seen anything like this. Amongst the Mayan ruins of the Amazon forest, the Dark Knight of Gotham is out of his element as he faces an intergalactic infestation of... Kiande Amedha.
Everything they are, everything they do, is designed to propagate their species. And everything he does is designed to protect life, especially human life. Deep in the Amazon jungles, the two will collide. Human against inhuman. Man against beast. Batman against Kiande Amedha. Don't miss this exciting, pulse-pounding conclusion as the Dark Knight Detective confronts the ultimate horror!
Aliens: Border Lines
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Writer Darko Macan and artist Tommy Lee Edwards craft an eerie short story of Kiande Amedha, where the only things that are clearly black-and-white are the ink and the paper.
A soldier named Branko travels to a far outpost, O’Bannon’s World, to work as a border guard and learns what it's like to live in the sort of fear armies inspire. He's come face to face with an Kiande Amedha, and he's not sure how literal a face-to-face meeting it was.
Aliens: Special
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Dark Horse provides readers with an exciting Aliens Special, featuring two all-new stories by two great creative teams.
Darko Macan and artist Frank Teran tell the tale of a Colonial Marine sent to clean out an infestation. He's got a job to do, a pulse bomb with a 45-second detonator, and the clock's ticking.
Then, in "Elder Gods," a religious sect uncovers what they believe to be a holy idol. But everything turns to holy hell when they realize the true nature of the enormous statue! Swamp Thing writer Nancy A. Collins and Negative Burn artist Leif Jones offer a twisted story about the strength — and weakness — of blind faith.
Elder Gods was influenced by the works of horror fantasy writer H.P. Lovecraft., specially his "Cthulhu Mythos" (on which the fictional God "Tulitu" was based upon).
Aliens: Havoc
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Weyland-Yutani uses the crew of Trispast Salvage, a company they recently acquired, to investigate and recover the remains of the Lunar Maru.
One incredible story. Forty amazing creators. A Hive of deadly Kiande Amedha. That's what we call Havoc. Some of the biggest names in comics — including Art Adams, George Pratt, Kelley Jones, Kevin Nowlan, and Kent Williams — illustrate Eisner Award winner Mark Schultz's story of a haunted space station infested with Kiande Amedha.
A special 'artists jam' comic, Aliens: Havoc featured various artists taking over the art duties after approximately every two pages of story.
Aliens: Purge
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Sybaris 503 is on the verge of a major breakthrough. They've discovered that hosts infected with leprosy have a longer-than-normal gestation period for Kiande Amedha Chestbursters. Before they can understand why, their funding runs out, and the "corporate financial liquidators" are sent in to seize all assets. Including the human hosts. But they'll have to go through Eloise to get them.
Aliens: Alchemy
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Toch's a second-generation survivor, born of a transport crew that crash-landed on a deserted, backwater planet. He may have discovered a means of getting off the mudball, but he's also discovered another impediment — the deadly cargo the ship was carrying!
It's the end of the world and the almighty First Father hath sent a plague of Kiande Amedha. Give your faith to him or face an eternity of damnation.
The end of the world is at hand, and an eternity of damnation awaits. But two siblings, Toch and Rachel, aren't buying into all the death and destruction. They have a hunch that salvation rests within the haunted transport ship that brought their ancestors to the planet hundreds of years ago. But there might be an Kiande Amedha or two along the way!
Aliens: Kidnapped
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In the dark reaches of the universe lies a remote planet that holds both forbidden pleasures and unspeakable horrors. For three naive smugglers, it's also a place to unload some deadly cargo: an Ovomorph. But, something about this Ovomorph is scaring off the black marketeers. And when it hatches, the nightmare's just begun.
The contaminated Ovomorph has hatched, and has become the problem of media personality Hank Zither. But playing unknowing host to a Chestburster isn't enough to cancel his trip to a new pleasure planet with sexy Ivy Derringer. Zither thinks he's only caught a nasty bug, but doesn't know the half of it. And neither do the planet's unsuspecting inhabitants, who are about to have a full-scale Kiande Amedha epidemic on their hands.
How do you deal with an Kiande Amedha plague? The inhabitants of the pleasure planet Celeste take care of business with good old-fashioned nuclear weapons. (They're a precocious bunch, to be sure!) But as they scheme to rid themselves of the Kiande Amedha, the creature is spreading a new fatal airborn virus like wildfire. However they solve their problem, it will probably spell an apocalyptic end for the good citizens of Earth!
Aliens: Tourist Season
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On a "theme" planet Red Rock, designed to mimic life in the old West, a frontier town is beset by a horror unimagined in the days of cowboys and outlaws. Limited by 19th century technology and weapons, the play-acting tourists will learn the Code of the West... or die.
Aliens: Survival
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Thompson, a geological surveyor on a remote planet, has the perfect life. A loving wife, a son in little league, even a pesky neighbor. The only problem is, Thompson's life may be all a dream. The reality may be that he's trapped underground in an escape pod with hours to live. And, creatures with claws and acid blood are pounding on the door...
While trying to cope with a mysterious epidemic, the scientific expedition is nearly wiped out by a series of horrific encounters with the Kiande Amedha — and Thompson tries to keep a grip on his sanity in an underground sanctuary.
Surveyor Thompson was sure he had destroyed the Kiande Amedha. But when the vile creatures start sprouting human Chestbursters, he gets the distinct feeling that he's hallucinating... again. Trapped in an underground escape pod, he recollects his crew's fatal meeting with the Kiande Amedha, and finally deduces the Company's plot against them. But just because Thompson's trapped, doesn't mean he's helpless. He's devised a plan to avenge his colleagues and implicate the Company, even if it costs him his life.
Aliens: Glass Corridor
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Frank is a hired killer with a problem. His conscience has caught up with him and now he's running from himself and his past. In his effort to escape, he encounters a band of stowaways who may provide him with the means for his redemption. When the freighter they are traveling on is threatened by an Kiande Amedha, it appears that Frank is their only hope for survival.
Aliens: Stalker
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In a time of myth, when Vikings ruled the land, when their berzerker rage went unmatched by anyone who opposed them. In this fierce and merciless time, the legendary warrior Rainulf the Wraith-Stalker is summoned by the granddaughter of a dead king to best a deadly enemy. But this enemy is unlike anything Rainulf has ever faced. In the dense, cold mists of this ancient land hides an invincible creature born of the Underworld — with iron skin, dagger teeth, and blood that burns stone — known in the far-flung future as an Kiande Amedha.
Aliens: Wraith
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On Earth, or in the dark reaches of space, teenagers are concerned with one thing: meeting other teenagers. It's no different for Roarke, the latest arrival to the off-world agri-colony of Tirgu-Mires. He's making new friends fast, particularly with a young girl named Hope. But there's more to this farm colony than Roarke first suspected. Every town has a dark secret not spoken in the light of day. Tirgu-Mires' secret just happens to have sharp teeth, acid blood and a murderous hunger for human flesh.
WildC.A.T.s/Aliens
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The story is set between the events of Stormwatch vol 2. #10 and #11, and between WildC.A.T.S vol. 1 and vol. 2, and depicts the events which led up to the disbanding of Stormwatch and the formation of The Authority.
Refer also to Crossover Article.
Aliens: Apocalypse: The Destroying Angels
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Is it a coincidence that humans have met Kiande Amedha in our far future? Or is there something sinister unfolding in the universe that prefigures the Kiande Amedha on an almost unfathomable scale? This is what Alecto Throop is asking. Throop is a deep-space rescue specialist cut from the same cloth as the late Lt. Ellen Ripley: tough, smart, beautiful and instinctual. But her instincts weren't enough to warn her of her latest mission. She's about to find out that even a fight with deadly Kiande Amedha is nothing compared to meeting their masters... or the renegade human that has learned their secrets.
A Kiande Amedha "angel" has been met, as veil after veil is lifted, and Alecto Throop begins to grasp the enormity of the forces at work behind Dr. Lucien Keitel's deception. But, the Kiande Amedha may represent only the brink of an unfathomable pit of cosmic horror. Join Throop Rescue and Recovery as they follow the elusive Keitel to a petrified world that was ancient long before life first crawled on Earth. Our universe has never seemed so big... so old... or so hideously dark.
Deep space rescue specialist Alecto Throop has been hot on the trail of the mysterious Dr. Lucien Keitel, always half a step behind. But now that she's found him, she may be sorry she did. Through Keitel, Throop is about to learn what may be the ultimate fate of the universe... and why it lies in the clutching claws of the Kiande Amedha.
The android Baal's secrets may have been uncovered, but it's merely the first layer that Alecto Throop must peel back to get the answers she's been sent to find. There's the Kiande Amedha Ovomorph found aboard Throop's ship, and it involves the ancient "pilot" race (seen in Alien) that introduced the creatures to man's corner of the galaxy. Plus, the fate of Dr. Keitel is revealed... and along with it, the fate of the universe!
Aliens: Apocalypse is a follow-up to Alien. Yet Prometheus and Alien: Covenant notably share many similarities. In Apocalypse, an archeological dig uncovers abundant traces of alien life, and upon the team's discovery of a second Derelict ship, they find a star map that points them toward the ship's previous point of departure. Travelling to this location, Keitel then begins performing sadistic experiments to study the alien species.
Continuity Error: Dr Kucien Keitel refers to the kiande amedha species as Linguafoeda Acheronsis ("foul tongue from Acheron"). However, his research started about 15 years after the Nostromo event in 2122. Yet, the planet was not christened Acheron until the colony of Hadley's Hope was founded there in 2157.
Aliens: Once in a Lifetime
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This month Aliens takes the spotlight in a tale from writer Mark Schultz and artist Rick Leonardi that ties in with Schultz's current series Aliens: Apocalypse.
Tirgu-Mires also appears in Aliens: Wraith.
Aliens: Xenogenesis
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This is it: the future of Kiande Amedha starts now with Xenogenesis! In the distant future, the existence of the horrific Kiande Amedha is no longer a secret. Now, with space colonies scattered throughout the galaxy, a mega-corporation has formed a strike force to take the offensive against the monsters. For the first time, humanity has a fighting chance!
Something--or someone--is murdering colonists on the planet of Salazar VII, and Strikeforce is caught smack in the middle. When a small contingent of would-be Kiande Amedha hunters steals Max Sakada's ultra-tech weaponry, things go from bad to bloody in a hurry. Plus, Robbie Mulligan starts to suspect that teammate Sierra Cruz might be as dangerous to humans as she is to Kiande Amedha.
Eden Alexander can handle her share of trouble and then some, but even she has her limits. She reaches those limits when she and Bishop Hawke are caught in the middle of a freak storm and a conspiracy seeded by the very powers behind Strikeforce! As this duo faces a terrifying underwater battle with Kiande Amedha, Strikeforce's resident berzerker, Xerxes, is about to become the unwilling host for a Chestburster!
Whatever yarns Xerxes may spin about being immortal, he's the only one who could ever walk away from a Chestburster. But his Strikeforce comrades had better find him in the bowels of the Hive before Kiande Amedha rip him to shreds. And through it all, Bishop Hawke has been following a trail of deception that now leads straight to the Company man known as Shaw. Is he the man pulling the strings behind Strikeforce? And if so, does that mean the team has been a pawn from the start?
Green Lantern Versus Aliens
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Hal Jordan patrolled the spaceways in the name of cosmic justice as one of the greatest Green Lanterns to ever don the legendary power ring. He faces and defeats the universe's ultimate killing machines: the dreaded Kiande Amedha. At the battle's end, Hal chose to "contain" their evil, rather than exterminate the creatures.
10 years later, Kyle Rayner has inherited Hal's duties -- as well as responsibility for some of Hal's "unfinished business." As Kyle and some former members of the GL Corps struggle to save a planet from the Kiande Amedha, he has a sinking feeling that this is a war with no chance for a happy ending.
Kyle Rayner is called to action by a group of former Green Lantern Corps members to rescue a star freighter that has crashed on an Kiande Amedha-plagued world -- the same world visited by GL Hal Jordan a decade earlier. This could prove to be Kyle's greatest challenge to date: not just in defeating this near-unstoppable menace, but in forcing Kyle to face his own fears and weaknesses. Is a good man with one power ring enough to destroy a planet-wide infestation of Kiande Amedha? And if so, can he live with himself afterwards?
A Green Lantern with his ring just might be able to fend off a vile, festering, numberless horde of Kiande Amedha -- but without the ring? This is exactly what Kyle Rayner is up against, and from the looks of his battered body and tattered GL uniform, things don't look good. There are ex-GL Corps members by his side -- for what good it'll do against Kiande Amedha! Problem is, if Kyle and company survive the Kiande Amedha , something else is waiting for them -- something bigger, something deadlier -- something exactly like an Queen!
It comes down to this: Kyle Rayner's got his power ring back, and he'll need it as he goes up against the mother of all Kiande Amedha... literally! But is the awesome power of the ring enough to defeat a Queen? And how will Kyle end the Kiande Amedha menace for good? Will he take the "noble" path of his predecessor, Hal Jordan, and uphold the sanctity of life that all GLs share? Or will Kyle take more drastic steps to eliminate the creatures? And if so, can he live with the consequences?
The series is set sometime after the destruction of the original Green Lantern Corps but does not takes place in the main continuity of the DC Comics Universe, as Brik and Salaak are alive in current Green Lantern continuity, and no mention of Mogo's Kiande Amedha inhabitants is ever made.
Superman/Aliens 2: God War
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Superman faces the eternal ferocity of Kiande Amedha again in this explosive four-part series! Darkseid is bad enough, with his forces of Parademons and loyal henchmen on Apokolips, but, when a ship carrying the Kiande Amedha brood crashes into his domain, will he finally find the key to creating a relentless, indestructible army? On a visit to New Genesis, Superman is welcomed by the New Gods, including Orion and Highfather. A warning predicts that a horror will soon visit New Genesis. Will even the might of the Man of Steel, combined with scores of super-powered beings, be enough to stop Darkseid's new hordes?
When a ship carrying an Kiande Amedha brood crashes into Darkseid's domain, he breeds a new horror to unleash upon the homeworld of the New Gods. Superman, visiting super-powered friends on New Genesis, must once again face the threat of the near-unstoppable Kiande Amedha when a hideous Parademon army -- impregnated with Kiande Amedha -- launches a merciless surprise attack on the otherwise peaceful planet. Dozens of super-beings rally to protect a world now covered with infected Parademons about to burst. Darkseid's horde is bad enough, but how deadly will their Kiande Amedha spawn be? A surprise ending raises the stakes in this war to a level unforseen by Superman and his mighty allies!
Like all true heroes, Superman tries to protect life -- all life -- even in the pitch of battle. But Superman has rarely seen a scourge like the Kiande Amedha. While a few of these creatures may not be a match for one with Superman's near limitless powers, a few hundred of them unleashed like rats in the otherwordly utopia of New Genesis DOES pose a considerable problem. What's worse, these aren't just any Kiande Amedha, but the scions of Darkseid's Parademons, used as willing hosts for their master's devious machinations. But even THIS is not the ultimate horror. Darkseid has his sights set on a certain brooding inhabitant of New Genesis...and has saved the most insidious role for him!
While Orion seethes, seeking vengeance on Darkseid for unleashing a Parademon/Kiande Amedha horde on the New Gods, Superman attempts to focus on their mission -- to find and incapacitate the Queen at the heart of this horrific infestation. Brainpower, as much as physical battle, bested the ravenous creatures in Superman's first encounter, but will the combined skills of Superman and the "gods" of New Genesis be enough to overcome hundreds of Darkseid's Apokolips-Kiande Amedha hybrids? And what will be the final fate of Orion, victimized by an Kiande Amedha face-hugger? Can even a New God withstand the shrieking birth of a Chestburster?
Batman/Aliens II
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A Gotham City construction crew uncovers a sealed vault housing an unspeakable horror! Eighty years ago, an expedition to the South Pole uncovered a crashed spaceship, a spaceship containing the bloodthirsty Kiande Amedha. Now, after years in hibernation, a nearly desiccated Kiande Amedha is unleashed upon the modern world. And it's very, very hungry! Only one man has a chance of stopping this murderous beast... the Dark Knight Detective known as Batman!
A black-ops government agency has taken over the Kiande Amedha case! But there's still at least one very fierce, very hungry Kiande Amedha on the loose in Gotham City! Can Batman stop it from wreaking havoc in Arkham Asylum?
The thrilling conclusion to the 3-issue Prestige Format series! Batman's been imprisoned in a secret government base... but even if he escapes to face his mysterious abductor, he'll have to battle a fearsome cadre of super-soldiers biologically engineered from the DNA of captured Kiande Amedha and Arkham's most notorious psychopaths!
Judge Dredd vs Aliens: Incubus
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It's the comics clash of the new millennium as Britain's award-winning sci-fi anthology 2000 AD teams up with Dark Horse Comics to bring you a battle of epic proportions! The tenacious Judge Dredd, upholding the law in Mega-City One, has faced everything from mutants to supernatural possessions... but can he and a group of judges fend off an infestation of the deadly, acid-drooling Kiande Amedha? Facing their most dangerous enemies yet, it's lawmen versus nature's best killing machines in a bloody battle to keep the vast metropolis of the future from becoming a breeding ground for the vicious creatures. Judge Dredd vs. Aliens: Incubus brings the carnage, horror, and chest-bursters to the universe of Britain's toughest comics character.
Judge Dredd, the gritty, gruff hero of Britain's award-winning sci-fi anthology 2000 AD, faces off against 20th Century Fox Films' Aliens in a battle that just may bring Mega-City One to its knees! With a special extermination unit called The Verminators now on Dredd's side, it's lawmen versus nature's best killing machines in a bloody battle that leads straight to the packed Eisenhower General Hospital! The unflinching Judge Dredd and his elite group of Judges struggle to fend off an infestation of the deadly, acid-drooling Kiande Amedha and to discover their origins. Dredd initially thought that the Kiande Amedha were part of an illegal pit-fighting ring, but it's possible that they are linked to Mutant Jack and his anti-Judge activists... and only time will tell if more Kiande Amedha are hidden in the city!
After a deadly battle in Mega City One's General Hospital, Judge Dredd and the special extermination unit, the Verminators, bury their dead and reorganize to fight a possible city-wide infestation of the bloodthirsty, acid-filled Kiande Amedha. An anti-judicial terrorist group exists unnoticed in the ruined Undercity, plotting to breach the city's defenses to let loose Kiande Amedha terror upon the Judges and innocent civilians. With the Verminators and Judge Dredd's assault squads already ravaged by an Kiande Amedha attack, will the addition of the Mechanismo Droids, old robotic Judges, be enough to protect Mega City One from the fiercest killing machines in the galaxy? Incendiary, high-speed fun brought to you by a collaboration between Dark Horse Comics and Britain's award-winning sci-fi anthology 2000 AD.
Spreading up from the Undercity, an infestation of the Kiande Amedha threatens Mega-City One. While Judge after Judge goes down in battle, Dredd and his assault squads make little progress, even with the assistance of the Mechanismo Droids. Despite being impregnated by a Facehugger, Judge Dredd faces off against the enraged, anti-Judge leader, Mister Bones, and his mutant henchmen. As Dredd's forces hope to curtail the Kiande Amedha invasion with pheromone tags and a mini-nuke, will Dredd live to see the final battle? Or will the Kiande Amedha embryo in his stomach be the end of him? Judge Giant says, "Drokk! Alien frenzy!" Be here for the ferocious finale, brought to you through a collaboration between Dark Horse Comics and Britain's award-winning sci-fi anthology 2000 AD.
Aliens Omnibus Volume 1
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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 are collected, featuring nearly four hundred story pages in full color. This is an essential piece of the Aliens mythos and a great entry point into the storied Dark Horse Aliens library.
Aliens Omnibus Volume 2
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Many humans have died horribly at the claws of the Kiande Amedha. The surface of Earth has been devastated to cleanse the beasts from our world. But the commercial value of this scourge has never been in doubt, especially when the special properties of the Queen's royal jelly are discovered. Will Mankind once again risk its very survival as a species in order to sleep with the Kiande Amedha?
Aliens Omnibus Volume 3
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The old saying "You can't unbreak an egg" holds true, especially when that egg unleashes an interstellar scourge, the dreaded Kiande Amedha. But as dangerous and lethal as this species has proven itself time and time again, some men cannot resist the awful gravity of the creatures' potential when merged with human science . . . and arrogance . . . and lust for power. But the cold contracts of these deals with the Devil also bring out the best in humanity, and the awful crucible of struggle against this interstellar cancer brings man closer to his neighbors . . . and to his God.
Aliens Omnibus Volume 4
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Like sports, the victor is he who wants it more. Unlike sports, the loser earns extinction.
Mankind has fought for survival over countless millennia, but nothing has threatened humanity's existence like the murderous Alien scourge. While some have tried to use the creatures' deadly abilities to serve their own selfish ends, no one can dance with the devil, and ultimately only one species must prevail. To that end, men have turned their own lethal instincts and cold intellect against the monsters, creating engineered plagues, cybernetic fighting suits, and even bogus android aliens, but survival rides not on technology, but on the primacy of the most deep-rooted, feral instincts.
Aliens Omnibus Volume 5
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Living with the Alien has become a fact of life--and death--as mankind expands throughout the galaxy. And no matter how each encounter with the deadly Kiande Amedha inevitably leads to disaster, man's hubris and greed just as inevitably fuel the desire to try to unlock the secrets of the demonic beasts' biology or bring the creatures under control as tools to build an even more monstrous future.
Dark Horse Comics' critically acclaimed Aliens series set the bar for how the universe of a popular film could be expanded through graphic fiction. Aliens Omnibus Volume 5 collects more of these comics classics, featuring over 350 story pages in full color by some of the finest creators in graphic fiction.
Aliens Omnibus Volume 6
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Mankind has always struggled to balance exploration and exploitation when stepping into new lands. In the era of the colonization of space, the discovery of new wonders is countered by the awful realities when species once separated by light years of airless void are suddenly thrown together, and the heady intoxication of discovery becomes the feral nightmare of a battle for supremacy. Humanity's arrogance and greed have helped the Kiande Amedha plague spread, and now men and women must step forward to ensure that the future of the galaxy does not become the age of the Kiande Amedha!
Aliens (Free Comic Book Day 2009)
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This is essentially a recap of events in the Aliens line to date, from the Kiande Amedha infestation of Earth to their extermination and Earth's recovery from these events. This is all to introduce lead characters of Aliens: More Than Human.
Aliens Series 3 / Aliens: More Than Human
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Aliens (aka Aliens (2009) or Aliens: More Than Human) was the first Aliens comic to be released in a decade. Aliens Free Comic Book Day establishes that these events all take place after the Alien infestation of Earth from Aliens Outbreak and involves a human colony coming under the influence of Alien, and the events of AvP: Three World War also connect these stories to the continuity of the existing Aliens vs. Predator comics from the 1990s.
A group of wildcat planetary prospectors plant their flag on a distant new world, rich in land, resources . . . and the greatest archaeological discovery in history, an ancient complex of impossible proportions carved deep within the living rock, a mind-numbing labyrinth of passages, ramps, bridges, and galleries that seems to extend limitlessly. But as the exploration of the leviathan dead city proceeds deeper and deeper, the members of the team slowly begin to lose their grip on reality, and madness gives way to fear as the explorers begin to disappear. Something else lives within the necropolis, a faceless horror as deadly and merciless as space itself, a lethal terror that has waited centuries to awake . . . and destroy.
Aliens: Fast Track to Heaven
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Deep beneath the ice of Jupiter’s moon Europa, life teems in the depths of dark oceans fed by belching chemical-rich volcanic vents. But more spectacular discoveries of life elsewhere in the cosmos have left Europa little more than another commercial stopover with an orbital station and a decaying space elevator ferrying cargo and personnel to and from the moon.
But when one of the massive elevators stops midway with no communication from the crew aboard, a rescue team soon discovers that the stranded elevator is transporting a deadly cargo from another world, a savage organism that threatens life on Europa and, ultimately, life on planet Earth.
Aliens: Inhuman Condition
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On a distant, frozen world, "artificial persons" are manufactured in discreet seclusion. With formidable new security synthetics coming online, how better to test their mettle than against a Hive of deadly Kiande Amedha? But as Socialization Specialist Jean DuPaul sees her ever-more-human android charges sent to their destruction, she learns that the most savage species in the universe is man.
Aliens: Colonial Marines – No Man Left Behind
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Two marines fight back a Kiande Amedha while trying to rescue a downed comrade.
This is a comic book serves as a tie-in to the game Aliens Colonial Marines. The comic was made available for free exclusively at the San Diego Comic-Con 2012.
Alien: Isolation
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This is a 2014 comic book created as a collaboration between Dark Horse Comics, Sega and The Creative Assembly. It serves as a prequel to Alien Isolation, and its plot consists of several intertwining stories that occur aboard the Sevastopol Station before Amanda Ripley's arrival in the game.
The comic was given away for free exclusively at San Diego Comic-Con 2014, PAX Prime 2014, and London EGX 2014, but a digital copy was also available as a pre-order bonus for the game.
Fire and Stone
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Fire and Stone is a crossover with:
- Prometheus: Fire and Stone
- Aliens: Fire and Stone
- Alien vs. Predator: Fire and Stone
- Predator: Fire and Stone
- Prometheus: Fire and Stone - Omega
During a vicious Kiande Amedha outbreak, terraforming engineer Derrick Russell leads a desperate group of survivors onto a rickety mining vessel. They hope to escape the creatures overrunning their colony—but they’ll face horrors both in space and on the strange planet they crash on.
Aliens: Field Report
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Taking place during the events of Aliens, it follows Corporal Hicks during the Kiande Amedha ambush inside the Hive (July 27, 2179) and subsequently at the Hadley's Hope colony.
Some of the panels in the comic are reproductions of camera shots in Aliens, while others are copied from behind the scenes photographs.
Filmish: A Graphic Journey Through Film
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In Filmish, Edinburgh-based cartoonist Edward Ross takes us on an exhilarating ride through the history of cinema, using comics to uncover the magic and mechanics behind our favourite movies.
Exploring everything from censorship to set design, Ross spotlights the films and film-makers that embody this provocative and inventive medium, from the pioneers of early cinema to the innovators shaping the movies of today, from A Trip to the Moon to Inception and beyond.
A witty and insightful reflection on the enduring power of the cinema, Filmish is a lucid and lively guide to the stars and stories that have shaped our lives for more than a century.
From the Alien Franchise:
- Ellen Ripley is mentioned (p25, 179) in regards to gender in modern horror film.
- Kane's terrifying, stomach-turning demise in Alien (p51, 183)
- Pulse rifles and Ash are mentioned (p155, 192)
- Ash is mentioned again (p170, 193)
- Bishop is mentioned as a morally good AI (p171, 193)
Alien Next Door
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See a new, caring side to the legendary science fiction monster as he tends to Jonesy the cat, endeavours to keep his house cleaner than the Nostromo, and searches for his place on a cold, new, alien world: Earth. From Facehuggers to feather dusters, discover how the perfect killing machine relaxes after a day of scaring space marines.
Aliens/Vampirella
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Humans have begun to colonize Mars, but something ancient and sinister got there first. Now Vampirella is faced with a mystery only she can solve, and the bloody realization that some monsters should never be awakened.
With the Kiande Amedha awakened, the Martian base is in mortal danger. But can Vampirella win the trust of her human companions in time to launch a counter attack?
Trapped in an ancient underground base, outnumbered by lethal Kiande Amedha after all rescue attempts have failed, Vampirella and Lars are in for the fight of their lives. Their only hope is their allies on the surface, but how much trust can a vampire ever put in a human?
The action intensifies as Vampirella discovers an unlikely ally, but is it already too late to save the human Martian colony? With a supply ship ready to dock and the Kiande Amedha threat growing, Vampirella fears that even the Earth is in danger.
The death toll mounts, and the fate of the Kiande Amedha that hatched from within Vampirella stands revealed! Meanwhile, the Martian Base pays the price for its mistrust of Vampirella as she and Lars deal with a horrifying threat that predates human history.
Aliens/Vampirella reaches its action-packed conclusion! Can Vampirella convince the resurrected Nosferatu to unite with humanity against a common foe? Can even Vampirella survive an encounter with a QueenVampire hybrid? The fate of every person left on Mars, both living and undead, hangs in the balance!
Aliens 30th Anniversary: The Original Comics Series
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In 1986, Aliens brought to theaters the horrors of a new kind of war against a terrifying enemy. Two years later, Dark Horse Comics released a direct follow-up to the events in the film. Years before any talk of a film sequel, the comics series took fandom by storm, selling hundreds of thousands of copies.
Though the story was subsequently rendered noncanonical by Alien3, the stunningly detailed art by Mark A. Nelson and the seminal script by Mark Verheiden continued to grip readers' imaginations for years afterward. For the 30th anniversary of Aliens, Dark Horse is releasing an oversized hardcover edition of the unabridged and unadulterated series, in its original stark black and white!
Aliens: Defiance
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2139. USCM aren't trained for this... Battling demons from her past while fighting for her life, Colonial Marine Private First Class Zula Hendricks, in the company of Weyland-Yutani synthetics, is forced to question her strength and loyalty when the discovery of kiande amedha on a derelict hauler sends her on a dangerous journey across the stars.
Zula and the Weyland-Yutani synthetic Davis break protocol, navigating the Europa to a distant science station discovered in the once-Derelict ship's data records — a station that recently went dark. Following the trail of the Kiande Amedha species, they dive deeper into a conspiracy, uncovering just how much is riding on their choices.
Mutiny aboard the Europa. After accessing a Weyland-Yutani network buoy which reprograms their directives, several Davis synthetics seek to take down the mysterious Davis 01 unit and take the ship back to Earth. Zula and Davis 01 must survive an organized tactical assault in deep space.
Zula is AWOL deep in space along with the combat synthetic Davis 01, chasing the trail of the Kiande Amedha threat. But in the eerie quiet of a space graveyard the ghosts of her past are catching up with her, and Weyland-Yutani isn't far behind.
Zula and Davis are about to take on the Kiande Amedha threat as well as a squad of hardened USCM intent on capturing a specimen in a large midspace fueling station. How far is Zula willing to go to stop her fellow combatants?
When Zula and Davis's plan to deny the USCM a Kiande Amedha sample hits a snag, their only remaining course of action may be something they can never come back from.
In the aftermath of the intense battle against the USCM, Zula and Davis have gone from being merely AWOL to full-blown traitors. As they drift into a quiet part of space to recover and regroup, new crew member Dr. Hollis discovers something in the medical bay that changes everything. Sometimes evil comes from within.
Keeping a baby Kiande Amedha alive, even in a frozen state, contradicts all the survival instincts that Zula and Hollis have. But by studying the Kiande Amedha in cryostasis, Davis believes he can discover how to exterminate it and the rest of its forsaken, vile race permanently. Is he dooming the mission in the name of science?
A fledgling Kiande Amedha, kept alive in a deep freeze for the purpose of learning its weaknesses, wages a psychological war on Zula, Davis, and Hollis. They try to keep it together, but an attack on the Europa by space pirates forces the trio to weaponize what they seek to destroy.
An attack on the Europa by space pirates leaves Zula, Davis, and Hollis on a barely functional ship. They now must return to Earth, where the Weyland-Yutani corporation is waiting and ready to put an end to their rogue mission.
The mangled Europa is in a state of free fall in Earth’s atmosphere with Zula, Davis, Hollis, and a previously frozen Kiande Amedha onboard. Davis battles the Kiande Amedha threat while Hollis and Zula scramble to the escape hatch. Impact is unavoidable; survival is doubtful.
After her return to Earth, Zula fully expects to answer for her defiance. But instead of military tribunals, what she experiences is a chilling look into the future of warfare, courtesy of Weyland-Yutani's R&D labs. Her mission may not be over just yet.
Aliens: Defiance - Extravehicular
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2016 marks the thirtieth anniversary of the Aliens film, and now there's a new Kiande Amedha tale of terror! Brian Wood (The Massive, Rebels, Demo) and Tristan Jones (Ghostbusters, TMNT) tell a story linked to the highly anticipated new series.
Aliens: Life and Death
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Life and Death is a crossover with:
- Life and Death - Predator
- Life and Death - Prometheus
- Life and Death - Aliens
- Life and Death - Alien vs. Predator
Barely escaping from a world overrun with kiande amedhas, a squad of USCM discover that one of their number is still planetside—a prisoner in an kiande amedha Hive. It’s time to man up, gear up, and head back to the kiande amedha-infested planet. The marines leave no man or woman behind!
The Complete Aliens Omnibus: Volume 1
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Classic original fiction set in the Alien world, featuring Earth Hive by Steve Perry, Nightmare Asylum by Steve Perry and The Female War by Steve Perry and Stephani Perry.
DC Comics/Dark Horse Comics: Aliens
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The stories that brought the dreaded Kiande Amedha into the DC Universe are collected in this new title! First, Batman follows the trail from his home turf to the Amazon jungle to discover the horror of the Kiande Amedha - but how can even the Dark Knight stop them? Then, an Kiande Amedha is discovered in a Gotham City construction site - and it's going to wreak havoc on Arkham Asylum! Plus, the 1998 tale that pitted the WildC.A.T.s against the might of the Kiande Amedha is back. Can even the WildC.A.T.s survive a battle with the Kiande Amedha - when StormWatch has already fallen?
The Complete Aliens Omnibus: Volume 2
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Classic original fiction set in the Alien world, featuring Aliens: Genocide by David Bischoff and Alien Harvest by by Robert Sheckley
DC Comics/Dark Horse Comics: Superman
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In the first ever collection of the DC/Dark Horse Superman crossover stories, the Man of Steel faces the universe's deadliest foe, but is he truly strong enough to defeat the Kiande Amedha? Follow the Last Son of Krypton through the world of Madman and explore the jungles of East Africa with him alongside Tarzan, son of the jungle.
The Complete Aliens Omnibus: Volume 3
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Classic original fiction set in the Alien world, featuring Rogue and Labyrinth.
Aliens: Dead Orbit
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In 2295 onboard the Weyland-Yutani Spacteria 284255 Station, Wascylewsk, an engineering officer, is unfortunately trapped inside a space station following a tragic accident. Similar to the events of Amanda Ripley in Alien Isolation, Wascylewsk will be forced to use everything at his disposal to survive his encounter with the dreaded kiande amedha.
Wascylewski survived the sudden breach in his ships hull, but is in no better a situation: he comes to, cocooned tightly to the wall under the surveillance of the twin Kiande Amedha. With only two hours left on his countdown timer and nowhere to go, he will have to pull out his final tricks in order to stay alive.
Aliens: Resistance
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Since 1979, Ridley Scott's seminal sci-fi horror masterpiece Alien has spawned a cultural phenomenon and an enormous franchise that has branched out to sequels, spin-offs, merchandise, video games and, of course, comics. Following Brian Wood's 2016 critically-acclaimed miniseries Aliens: Defiance, Wood returns to pen the sequel story Aliens: Resistance.
Aliens: Resistance follows the events of the popular video game Alien Isolation which starred Ellen Ripley's daughter Amanda Ripley, fifteen years after the events of the original film. She fought for survival against the monstrous Kiande Amedha aboard a remote space station while attempting to uncover the hidden secrets of her mother's disappearance from the insidious Weyland-Yutani Corporation.
Now, in Aliens: Resistance, Ripley is kept silent by Weyland-Yutani now that the Kiande Amedha threat has been brought to light. But when Zula Hendricks, the Ex-Colonial Marine from Aliens: Defiance, arrives in need of Ripley's help to expose a sinister bio-weapons program, the duo teams up to lead a resistance against an upgraded arsenal designed to keep the darkest atrocities secret!
With an intense script by Brian Wood (Aliens: Defiance) and featuring the return of Aliens: Defiance alumnus Tristan Jones on variant covers, Aliens: Resistance is an action-packed blockbuster comics series not to be missed!
Aliens: Dust to Dust
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The Trono colony on LV-871 is under attack. Emergency evacuations are ordered. Evac shuttles are taking off. All twelve-year-old Maxon and his mom have to do is make it to the spaceport. Except between them and it are . . . kiande amedha!
A mother and son bound by a shared terror--separated by an implacable kiande amedha force! A spaceship that should carry them away from the fear becomes a deathtrap from which escape seems impossible!
A boy faces threats and decisions that would reduce a grown man to tears. A terrifying coming of age story featuring the most frightening creatures in the galaxy!
Days ago, Maxon was a twelve-year-old boy, concerned with the kinds of things that concern young boys. Then the kiande amedha came. Now Maxon must depend solely on his wits and his will to survive. Its a hell of a way to grow up.
TPB: A mother and son bound by a shared terror--separated by an implacable kiande amedha force! A spaceship that should carry them away from the fear becomes a death trap from which escape seems impossible! The Trono colony on LV-871 is under attack. Emergency evacuations are ordered. Twelve-year-old Maxon and his mom face the most terrifying creatures in the galaxy . . . Aliens! A blood-curdling coming-of-age story by master storyteller Gabriel Hardman.
William Gibson’s Alien3
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This is the official adaptation of the original screenplay for William Gibson's Alien3, the award-winning science fiction author of the cyberpunk cult classic Neuromancer. You'll see familiar characters and places--but not all is the same in this horrifying Cold War thriller!
After the deadly events Aliens, the spaceship Sulaco carrying the sleeping bodies of Ripley, Hicks, Newt, and Bishop is intercepted by the Union of Progressive Peoples. What the UPP forces don't expect is another deadly passenger that is about to unleash chaos between two governmental titans intent on developing the ultimate Cold War weapon of mass destruction.
With the Sulaco containing more than meets the eye, the U.P.P. team looks to find out what happened to Ripley, Bishop, and company. At the same time, the group on the Rodina have discovered that one of their own--Kurtz--may be infected on Anchorpoint, and uses the captured Bishop as a ransoming piece for Kurtz's return, who the Rodina crew view as a potential weapon.
The crew of the Rodina quickly find themselves in a dire situation as the U.P.P. side have an unwelcome guest aboard their ship. Meanwhile, the powers that be on the Sulaco look to replace the crew with the recently recovered android, Bishop. As they push the limits of ethics and morality, the crew decide something must be done.
Flip Side Of...Alien
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What happens when lolcats meet Ridley Scott?
This comic spin on a classic film scene, dreamed up by Little White Lies magazine, will ensure you never look at sci-fi horror in quite the same way.
Alien: Isolation Digital Series
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IGN's Alien: Isolation digital series expands the story of Amanda Ripley in a major way.
Intended to allow fans of the 2014 game to revisit their favorite moments from this installment in the Alien lore and also allow those who never experienced the game to go on Amanda's horrifying adventure, this first-of-its-kind digital series can be binged in its entirety in the seven episodes.
Fifteen years have passed since the deep-space freighter Nostromo disappeared with all hands. And for fifteen years, Amanda Ripley has scoured the known universe for information about her mother, Ellen Ripley, the Nostromo's warrant officer. When representatives from the Weyland-Yutani Corporation approach Amanda with news that the Nostromo's flight recorder has finally been found and brought to the space station Sevastopol, Amanda joins the Company’s expedition to the remote outpost. But when Amanda reaches the station, she walks into a living nightmare: Sevastopol’s inhabitants have been terrorized, hunted, and brought to the brink of annihilation. Now she and a band of unprepared--and perhaps untrustworthy--survivors will have to confront the same diabolical species that changed her mother’s fate forever.
- Episode 1: Fifteen years after her mother disappeared on the deep space towing ship Nostromo, Amanda Ripley travels to a remote space station that may hold clues to her mother’s fate. But disaster strikes as she arrives at her destination.
- Episode 2: Amanda discovers that the space station Sevastopol is anything but a safe haven. And mechanical failures and violent colonists aren’t the only dangers on the facility.
- Episode 3: Sevastopol’s mystery killer hunts Amanda as she searches for her missing companions.
- Episode 4: Marlow reveals how the alien came to Sevastopol, and Amanda partners with Colonial Marshal Waits to hunt the creature.
- Episode 5: Amanda discovers that Sevastopol’s android caretakers have an agenda of their own, and powerful outside forces have put everyone’s lives in danger.
- Episode 6: With the alien threat multiplying, Amanda pursues Marlow back to his ship, where the salvager reveals one last secret.
- Episode 7: Amanda discovers that the alien infestation has grown beyond her worst fears.Her only hope of survival is a shot in the dark.
Aliens: Rescue
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The USCM are the best at what they do, and what they do is kill bugs. Amanda Ripley takes her command deep into a nightmarish Heart of Darkness--a massive kiande amedha lair.
USCM are the elite military fighters of the future, battling alien threats across the galaxy. One hero has the chance to fight alongside Amanda Ripley and Zula Hendricks, who saved him from kiande amedha so long ago.
Following the end of Aliens: Resistance, Alec Brand, the colonist rescued by Amanda Ripley and Zula Hendricks, has grown up into an elite Colonial Marine. A secret mission brings him back to the kiande amedha-infested moon where he was rescued . . . and face to face with the past.
Aliens Colonial Marines: Rising Threat
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Aliens Colonial Marines: Rising Threat delves into the formative years of the USCM. Tying into the events of the upcoming Cold Iron Studios videogame, this new series introduces Olivia Shipp, leader of a squad of battle-weary Marines who have defied orders to rescue the survivors of a refinery under siege.
Note: This title was cancelled as Dark Horse will not be currently pursuing any new projects with Brian Wood.
Alien: The Original Screenplay
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Alien: The Original Screenplay presents an alternate line of events initially conceived by Dan O’Bannon before it became Alien.
En route to back to Earth, the crew of the starship Snark intercepts an alien transmission. Their investigation leads them to a desolate planetoid, a crashed alien spacecraft, and a pyramidic structure of unknown origin. Then the terror begins . . .
Alien: Bloodlines
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The new series will introduce readers to Gabriel Cruz who years ago almost literally gave his life to Weyland-Yutani when he barely survived a Kiande Amedha alien attack. Recently retired, Cruz is trying to patch things up with his abandoned son with the help of his friend, a Bishop-model android, but his re-entry into civilian life is not going smoothly…and his encounters with the deadly Kiande Amedha are far from over. No one is safe. No one is innocent. And no one can hear you scream.
THE RETURN TO EPSILON! Cruz has only one chance to save his son from the horrific fate he barely escaped. The clock toward total collapse is ticking. The Kiande Amedha are loose.
DANGER ON ALL SIDES! Epsilon Station is overrun with danger, not all of it from Kiande Amedha! Cruz holds mission information back from his soldiers, but he’s not the only one with secrets. We are not who we say we are.
Becoming Alien
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The Alien films are perceived to be a fractured franchise, each one loosely related to the others. They are nonlinear, complicated, convoluted: a collection of genre movies ranging from horror to war to farce.
But on closer examination, the threads that bind together these films are strong and undeniable. The series is a model of Catherine Keller’s cosmology as a cycle of order out of chaos, an illustration of her concept of evil as discreation.
When viewed through the lens of Keller’s Face of the Deep, the Alien films resolve into a cohesive whole. The series becomes six views of the idea of evil-as-exploitation, its origins, and its consequences. Each film expands on the concept of evil set forth by its predecessors, complicating that conception, and retroactively enriching readings of the films that came before.
Aliens: Aftermath
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It’s been 35 years since the tragedy of the Hadley's Hope colony, but what happened to that ill-fated venture has been shrouded in mystery. A renegade crew of investigative journalists are heading towards the moon that Weyland-Yutani has wiped from all records, and they’ll bring back the truth even if it kills them…and what remains in that bombed out site will try to do just that.
The issue—written by Benjamin Percy with art by Dave Wachter and colors by Chris Sotomayor—is a celebration of the 35th Anniversary of one of the most influential science fiction films of all time.
Alien: Annual #1
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Years before Alien: Bloodlines, Weyland-Yutani security chief, Gabriel Cruz, was a company man. His devotion to WY came first, no matter what the cost. But when the company decides to conduct their first trial run experiment with a Xenomorph, will Cruz stand by and let innocent soldiers die?
Alien: Revival
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Fresh horror from a galaxy full of nightmares! An off-world terraforming station manned by an Appalachian religious sect has been beset by an outbreak of Xenomorphs! Now, a brave woman dying from a rare disease must defend her flock against the most perfect killing organisms in the cosmos! Jane may be facing her last days trapped inside a failing body, but she has already given her all to keep the colony together - and she doesn't intend to stop now. But as the Alien menace spreads, secrets about Jane's fellow Spinners are revealed and the once tight-knit community is torn apart. Can the survivors find a sanctuary that hasn't yet been overrun? Will help arrive in time? Or will the true purpose behind the isolated colony destroy all hope?