Marvel Comics returns to the Alien universe in a special one-shot comic, Aliens: Aftermath #1, in honor of the iconic film’s 35th anniversary.
Arriving in July, this double-sized issue from writer Benjamin Percy and artist Dave Wacther takes place at the Hadley's Hope colony on Acheron, or LV-426, decades after the events that transpired in James Cameron’s original 1986 film, Aliens.
ALIENS: AFTERMATH #1
- Written by BENJAMIN PERCY
- Art by DAVE WACHTER
- Cover by PHIL NOTO
- On Sale 7/14
- It’s been 35 years since the tragedy of the Hadley’s Hope colony, but what happened during 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. Here’s what Percy had to say about penning this new saga:
"When I was a kid, I had a door-length poster of a xenomorph crashing through the wood, tearing off the hinges, creeping forward with a drippy fanged smile," Percy said. "This is the image I would drift away to every night, which no doubt influenced my imaginative hard-wiring, along with the films and comics that I watched and read over and over and over. To this day, I can't grip a knife without wanting to lay my hand on a table and tick-tick-tick the point between my splayed fingers—I can't play a game of ping-pong or Clue without yelling, 'Game over, man.'—I can't scratch an orange tabby without whispering, 'You are my lucky star....lucky, lucky, lucky, lucky, lucky.' I’ve been in love with these stories most of my life, and it's truly an honor and a delight to celebrate the 35th anniversary of Aliens with a script inked in acid blood."
Disney acquired 20th Century Fox, and by extension the Alien IP, in 2019. Since then, Marvel has launched an Alien series written by Phillip Kennedy Johnson and illustrated by Salvador Larroca.
Aliens: Aftermath #1, by Benjamin Percy and Dave Wacther, goes on sale July 14 from Marvel Comics.
Source: Marvel