Comic Book Review: Alien #1
Rob Lake reviews Alien #1... " In space no-one can hear you scream! "... Well when it comes to Marvel's first crack at crafting an Alien story, that's not entirely the case. When it was announced last year that Marvel had taken on the Alien and Predator franchise from Dark Horse I was quietly optimistic. The teaser art of the Predator standing tall on Avengers Tower with an Iron Man helmet in hand was all I needed to go "holy shit!". Then everything went quiet, until today! So, Marvel's first take on the Xenomorph is as you'd expect it to be - it's a bit drab, it soon falls into those classic Alien traits, and has a lot of classic Alien moments. But does this opening issue exceed expectations? Well, it does, and it doesn't so let me explain... Alien #1 takes place in 2200, we're about 80-years past the events on the Nostromo and 21-years after the events at Hadley's Hope and Fiorina 161. So Ellen Reply is dead, th...