The Alien comic books are part of the Alien franchise and have had several titles published based on the license, most of which are part of the Dark Horse Comics line, but other comics by other distributors have been made. Marvel Comics obtained the license to the Aliens, Predator and Alien vs. Predator comics following the acquisition of 21st Century Fox by The Walt Disney Company.[1]
The Aliens comic book line was a long-running series of comic books published by Dark Horse Comics, based on the Alien franchise, chiefly the 1986 film Aliens. For over 30 years, Dark Horse was essentially the sole publisher of Aliens comics, and the company produced a number of limited series, one-shots and short stories, starting with the comic Aliens: Outbreak (originally titled simply Aliens) in July 1988.
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Following the purchase of 20th Century Fox by The Walt Disney Company in 2019, the license to produce Alien comics moved to Marvel Comics (along with the Predator and Aliens vs. Predator lines), thus bringing Dark Horse's involvement with the franchise to an end.
During the time they owned the rights to produce Aliens comics, Dark Horse published a total of 72 different Aliens stories, as well as various collected editions, reprints and non-canon crossover comics that introduce the titular Alien species to other franchises. Of the four Dark Horse comic book lines set in the Alien vs. Predator universe, the Aliens line was by far the most extensive (and the longest-running).
These first three series formed a continuous story arc, concerning a Xenomorph infestation overrunning Earth and the later reclaiming of the planet for humanity, with each series picking up where the preceding story left off. This style would prove to be somewhat unconventional in the Aliens comics line; the vast majority of subsequent titles were stand-alone, self-contained tales. Following the original trilogy, the comics also moved away from their reliance on existing individuals from the films and, starting with the fourth miniseries (Aliens: Genocide), began to focus on original characters and events in the Aliens universe. Despite this, the infestation of Earth and its effects would continue to play a prominent or background role in numerous subsequent Aliens comics. Stories featured work from top names in the comic book industry and incorporated a wide variety of artistic styles, from black and white, to painted airbrush, to typical comic book-style illustration.
1992 saw Dark Horse attempt to expand its Aliens comic book franchise to new markets. The company produced a series of mini-comics under the Aliens: Space Marines moniker intended for younger readers; these titles were packaged exclusively with a line of Aliens toys from Kenner Products. The comics, more light-hearted and child-friendly in tone than the mainstream Aliens stories, are not considered an official part of its overall universe and have generally been met with ridicule from long-time fans for their immature style. The same year, Dark Horse also expanded its Aliens line to the United Kingdom in the form of a revamped Aliens magazine, which the company had taken over from previous publisher Trident Comics. While the venture initially met with great success, the global slump in comics sales during the mid-1990s saw the magazine cancelled two years later.
The Aliens comics line would reach its peak in 1993, with no less than eleven different Aliens series or stories published that year. In 1996, Dark Horse began a major "remastered" reprint program of some of the most important series in the line, under the Aliens Library Edition moniker.
Aliens comics ran regularly until 1999's Aliens: Xenogenesis, when the line (along with Dark Horse's Predator and Aliens vs. Predator lines) entered a deliberate ten-year hiatus. During this break, the only Aliens comics published were Omnibus collections of the existing comic books.
In 2019, the Walt Disney Company purchased the film studio 20th Century Fox, and with it the rights to the Alien, Predator and Alien vs. Predator franchises. As a result of the merger, Dark Horse lost the license to produce Aliens comics, which instead moved to Disney-owned Marvel Comics, who subsequently began their own line of Alien comic books. As a result of the change in ownership, the planned trade paperback collection Aliens: The Essential Comics Volume 2 was cancelled, although the limited series Alien: The Original Screenplay was concluded as planned, proving to be the final Aliens release from Dark Horse.
Aliens comics stories are usually set in the same late-22nd century future as the first three movies of the Alien film series and often feature the Weyland-Yutani Corporation (or a comparable interplanetary corporate entity) and the United States Colonial Marine Corps. Similarly to the Alien movies, very few of the comics take place on Earth, tending instead to be set in remote, isolated deep space locations. Other themes common to the Aliens line include a continued exploration of the future of human civilization, space colonization and mining, horror stories, and the continued experimentation on the Xenomorph species by rogue scientists. Corporate greed, the dangers of unchecked scientific ambition and a struggle for survival are usually involved. The stories are often used to explore new characters and wider aspects of the Xenomorph species, such as their sociology and biology.
As well as the numerous comics published by Dark Horse, a small number of Alien comics have also been released by other publishers. As Dark Horse had no involvement with these comics, they are not considered a part of the company's Aliens line and have never been collected in any form with the Dark Horse releases.
The first three stories formed a continuation of the two Alien films that had been released by the time they were published. However, 1992 saw the release of Alien 3, which contradicted the events of the comics by beginning with the deaths of Newt and Corporal Hicks. In order to keep the stories relevant to the main Alien film series, Dark Horse changed the names of the characters for future printings of the stories. Newt became Billie while Hicks was now known as Wilks. The only other major difference between the original publications is that as well as being renamed the trade paperbacks were also recolored.[1]
In 2020, the comic rights to the Aliens franchise were sold to Marvel Comics, ending the Dark Horse Comics line. As well as producing their own original comics, Marvel have the right to reprint at least some of the previous Dark Horse stories, and as of 2022 several have been republished in new collections and/or as digital comics.
Outbreak starts 10 years after the events of Aliens. Ripley's fate is not revealed to the reader, but Hicks and Newt have been struggling with the aftermath of their encounter with the Xenomorphs. Newt is in a mental institution suffering horrible recurring nightmares, and when nothing seems to help her, the doctors decide to wipe her memory. The badly-scarred Hicks, facing constant fears from his fellow Marines that he is somehow contaminated by the Aliens, has never gotten over the annihilation of his squad, and so agrees to go on a mission to the alien homeworld to recover some eggs and to destroy one of the hives (the hive-destroying serves no purpose other than to satisfy Hicks' hatred). Hicks goes to visit Newt before he departs, only to learn about the planned memory-wipe. Hicks believes Newt to be the only thing that marks his existence and honors his squad's sacrifice, so he extracts her from the institution and smuggles her on board the ship flying to the homeworld. Said ship departs, but is trailed by another, crewed by corporate mercenaries intent on keeping the Aliens' secrets for their paymasters.
Meanwhile, strange things are happening on Earth. A scientific corporation has acquired an alien queen, and begins harvesting eggs, intent on creating bio-weapons. A weird cult that believes the Aliens to be God's spiritual rebirth breaks in and its members voluntarily give themselves up for facehugging. They spread the Alien infection across the planet and Earth is soon overrun.
The story continues where Outbreak left off, with Newt, the synthetic Butler, and Hicks a short time after having escaped the alien-infested Earth on a cargo ship. The crew discovers the ship is ferrying aliens to an unknown destination. After killing the aliens, the ship autopilots to a military post commanded by General Spears, who is breeding and attempting to train aliens to fight against their own kind on Earth. He is depicted as ruthless, and is called insane by several characters. Throughout the story it is revealed that Spears is extremely paranoid about his own safety and the safety of his aliens, and is willing to sacrifice his own troops without hesitation. As the story progresses, the aliens inevitably escape captivity and begin taking over the military base. Hicks and Newt manage to hide on the same ship General Spears uses to escape. Once aboard the ship Hicks and Newt realize it is full of "trained" aliens that Spears intends on using to take back the infested Earth. The synthetic Butler also manages to send a transmission saying goodbye to Newt as they were separated in the middle of the story. Since Butler is a synthetic and torn in two the aliens do not engage him in any way. Butler is left alone and abandoned in the military base. Before Spears lands on Earth Hicks and Newt jettison out in a small escape pod towards a different space station called Gateway, which becomes a haven for the few people capable of reaching, aware that their chances of survival on Earth are slim. Once Spears lands on Earth he releases his "trained" aliens and expects them to attack the Earth-bred aliens. The "trained" aliens end up turning on Spears. In the end Spears realizes that the aliens were never actually trained, but simply remaining patient throughout their supposed training. The Queen and the other aliens had every intention of getting to Earth and killing Spears. Spears is brutally killed at the end of this realization. On the final page, Ellen Ripley appears, heavily armed, saying the time has come to take the battle to the xenomorphs. 0852c4b9a8
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