Announcement
Collapse
No announcement yet.
Aliens Dead Orbit #3
Collapse
X
Collapse
-
Aliens Dead Orbit #3
Aliens Dead Orbit #3
Released by: Dark Horse Comics
Released on: July 19th, 2017.
Written & Illustrated by: James Stokoe
Purchase From Amazon
When this third issue begins, Wasclewski is cocooned in the hull of the ship, a pair of aliens hissing in his direction not too far from where he lies trapped. When he notices Captain Hassan cocooned just a few feet away, we flashback and find out how this all happened.
As Wasclewski and the others patrol the ship, an alien pulled Torrenson into the duct where it was hiding, leaving Wasclewski, Park and Harrow powerless to save him. Knowing that Hassan is gone, the three run as quickly as they can. They regroup, scared that first they lost Rook and now Hassan, but intent on figuring out where the bugs are coming from. If they properly sealed off the main areas by the deck then they must be coming from the sub-decks, possibly from over by engineering. Torrenson wonders aloud how the xenomorphs got so big so quickly. Park figures that if they can find where the aliens are hiding, maybe they can get their people back.
Torrenson has another idea. He wants to gather up supplies and wait in the scavenger's ship for rescue. Before Rook was taken he did send out the alert, and even if it takes three months, Torrenson would rather do this than face the aliens. Obviously he and Park get into it. Once things cool down a bit, she talks Wasclewski and Torrenson into heading to the medical bay to check on Harrow. When they arrive, they find Harrow with a knife to his throat, one of the women from the other ship having awoken in a rather nasty mood and now wanting to find the rest of her crew. She mutters about an infection, a dead colony - she's unhappy that Wasclewski and the others woke them up, they were frozen for a reason but before the conversation can go much further, Torrenson attacks her.
This won't end well for anybody…
This third issue of writer/artist James Stokoe's Aliens series is the best one yet, a tense and genuinely horrifying new story set in the well-established AVP world with some interesting and believable human characters once again stuck in a rather dire situation. It's interesting to see as all of this plays out who has the survivalist instinct and who caves under pressure. It's not always who you think it will be and it happens in ways that are both realistic and unexpected. There's some seriously good storytelling going on here and just when you think that the recent proliferation of Aliens and related comics from Dark Horse are getting to be a bit much, this series comes along and knocks you on your ass.
Not only is the writing tense, gripping and engrossing but the artwork is amazing, mind-blowing even. Stokoe's style is clearly influenced by all manner of manga work but he's got his own distinct thing going on here. In a lot of ways it is an atypical look for an Aliens story, kind of like Sam Kieth's work on Aliens: Earth War way back in 1990, but like Kieth's work in fits the tone of the story perfectly. There's an insane amount of detail in every one of Stokoe's panels and the layouts are very cinematic, conveying a palpable sense of horror and dread but also bringing the action to life with an appreciable sense of movement. Seriously amazing stuff, bring on issue #4.Posting comments is disabled.
Categories
Collapse
article_tags
Collapse
- album review (218)
- album reviews (274)
- arrow video (272)
- blu-ray (3225)
- blu-ray review (4162)
- comic books (1392)
- comic reviews (872)
- comics (988)
- dark horse comics (484)
- dvd and blu-ray reviews a-f (1969)
- DVD And Blu-ray Reviews G-M (1711)
- DVD And Blu-ray Reviews N-S (1757)
- DVD And Blu-ray Reviews T-Z (878)
- dvd review (2513)
- idw publishing (216)
- image comics (207)
- kino lorber (391)
- movie news (260)
- review (318)
- scream factory (279)
- severin films (300)
- shout! factory (537)
- twilight time (269)
- twilight time releasing (231)
- vinegar syndrome (497)
Latest Articles
Collapse
-
Edited by: David C. Hayes
Published by: Bear Manor Media
Released on: September 14th, 2022
Purchase From Amazon
Recently published through Bear Manor Media are two books edited by David C. Hayes sure to appeal to the action movie fan that doesn’t need to take things too seriously – Hard To Watch: The Films Of Steven Seagal and Missing The Action: The Films Of Chuck Norris. Hayes provides an introduction to each of the two books, explaining how he...-
Channel: Books And Comics
01-20-2023, 05:04 PM -
-
Released by: Klubb Super 8
Released on: April, 2021.
Author: Rickard Gramfors
Year: 2021
Purchase From Klubb Super 8 Rickard Gramfors's 384 page full-color hardcover book, Do You Believe In Swedish Sin? Swedish Exploitation Film Posters 1951 - 1984, is a true thing of beauty. Written entirely in English, this weighty tome opens with two quick intros, the first of which spends two pages giving readers a brief history of Swedish exploitation cinema, and the sec...-
Channel: Books And Comics
07-18-2021, 11:58 AM -
-
Released by: Dynamite Entertainment
Released on: October 14th, 2020.
Written by: David Avallone
Illustrated by: Dave Acosta
Purchase From Amazon Not caught up? Then you need to pick up volume 1 (which collects the first four issues of this series from writer David Avallone and artist Dave Acosta! For those not hip to these haunted happenings, Doctor Johannes Faust has sent our favorite buxom “hostess with the mostess†travelling through tim...-
Channel: Books And Comics
10-13-2020, 07:24 PM -
-
Dracula, Motherf**ker (Image Comics) Comic Review
Released by: Image Comics
Released on: October 7th, 2020.
Written by: Alex De Campi
Illustrated by: Erica Henderson
Purchase From Amazon Sometimes a good title is all it takes. At the time of this writing, I've just finished cleaning the kitchen, cranked out four reviews that needed to be cranked out, and honestly, I could use a nice little nap right now but then, in my inbox, I see it - a chance to...-
Channel: Books And Comics
07-26-2020, 01:45 PM -
-
Released by: Titan Comics
Released on: July 29th, 2020.
Written by: Michael Green, Mike Johnson
Illustrated by: Andres Guinaldo
Purchase From Amazon The second story arc ends with this issue, but first? A quick recap. Ash was the only one to survive the Replicant attack on the off-world mining colony, through Cleo believed her to be dead and, with no other real options, joined the Replicant rebels. A new Blade Runner named Hythe, who has an arrest warrant for...-
Channel: Books And Comics
07-26-2020, 10:16 AM -
-
Judge Dredd: Control (Rebellion Publishing) Comic Review
Released by: 2000 A.D.
Released on: July 9th, 2020 (digital)/December 10th, 2020 (print)
Written by: Rob Williams
Illustrated by: Chris Weston
Purchase From Amazon Originally published in 2000 AD Progs 2035-2036, Judge Dredd: Control opens with a dramatic scene when a Judge in a small flying craft, an H-Wagon it's called, tracks down and deals with the 'We're All Heart' private heart transplant ...-
Channel: Books And Comics
06-28-2020, 04:50 PM -