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    Aliens: Life And Death #1
    Released by: Dark Horse Comics
    Released on: September 21st, 2016.
    Written by: Dan Abnett
    Illustrated by: Moritat
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    “This story takes place approximately forty-three years after the events in the motion picture Aliens and just over a year after the events in the Fire and Stone story cycle). Trapped on LV-223 with hostile, godlike Engineers on one side and a ravenous xenomorph swarm on the other, a disparate group including Colonial Marines, outlaw prospectors, and the survivors of a previous ill-fated mission to the planet make a desperate bid to steal an Engineer ship and escape. But their plan goes wrong
    when one of the Engineers departs with the ship—with some of the humans inside.

    Meanwhile, a run-in with a second Engineer ends in disaster for another part of the group, while the final team, bringing up the rear with a wounded companion, are intercepted by Aliens . . .”

    So armed with that brief description of what lead up to this storyline, let's get down to it. A horde of aliens are laying siege to what's left of the Marines and their companions. A firefight breaks out and there are casualties, as you'd imagine. Wearing and Chris are both taken out.

    Meanwhile, Roth is trying to get in touch with… anyone who can hear him on the other side of his radio. Eventually he hears back from Freebody, everyone thought he had taken off and abandoned them but what they don't know is that the Engineer took off with the rest of his squad, leaving him alone. Neither he nor anyone on Freebody's side know what happened to Galgo, but then we learn - he was teamed up with a Predator dubbed Ahab, but the bugs got him and no he's flying solo. And he's surrounded.

    Roth meets up with Freebody and the rest, but Jill is freaking out over Chris' death and they're running low on ammo. And then they hear something in the distance, something heading their way…

    This first issue of the Aliens: Life And Death storyline does a fine job of edging ever closer to tying up the storylines established previously in the Predator and Prometheus Life And Death four issue mini's. Abnett's bringing the different factions together for what would seem to be a standoff against the alien threat, while what's going on with the Engineer really still remains to be seen. It's quickly paced and delivers some nice action and suspense, even if it never feels particularly deep. This is a fun diversion while other recent storylines in the AVP universe have had a little more meat on their bones. Moritat's artwork is pretty great though. At first it feels maybe a little too cartoonish to work, given that this is a fairly dark story, but as the pages unfold it starts to really grow on you. There's a lot of detail here, the aliens are really nicely illustrated and quite menacing, the humans look and 'move' like humans should and background detail is solid. Rain Beredo's coloring is great too, and check out that gorgeous painted cover by Sachin Teng - killer stuff







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