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It’s a war between Xenomorphs in Alien Annual #1

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Over the last year, writer Declan Shalvey and artist Andrea Broccardo have taken the Alien franchise to dark new depths in the current ongoing Alien comic series. Set on an remote moon, the series has unearthed all-new horrors in the iconic horror/science-fiction mythos, including a chilling subspecies of Xenomorphs that have thawed out of an icy slumber! The mystery and methods of these new Xenomophs are still being revealed, but this October, readers will get up close and personal with these new terrors in a double-sized Alien Annual! Teaming up with rising talent Danny Earls, Shalvey will further explore these new creations as they go head-to-head with their classic counterparts. With no humanity in sight, fans will see Xenomorphs unleashed on eachother in brutal fashion as this action-packed and standalone issue sets up the next era of Alien comic book storytelling!

ALIEN VS. ALIEN: PITY THE XENO! A Xenomorph queen and her hive descend on a dark world. As always, they’re eager to eliminate any species they encounter and stand poised to overrun this planet like they have so many others. Until the native life fight back…

Check out the issue’s main cover drawn by Shalvey below and pick up Alien Annual #1 this October!

Alien Annual #1

Exclusive Preview: Alien #4

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Alien #4

(W) Declan Shalvey (A) Andrea Broccardo
(CA) Dike Ruan (VCA) Francesco Manna
Rated T+
In Shops: Jul 19, 2023
SRP: $4.99

HOW FAR WOULD YOU SINK, TO SURVIVE? All hell has broken loose on base. As Xenomorphs swarm the rig – massacring any Weyland-Yutani personnel in sight – Batya makes a plan for an escape. With her research and family at risk, Batya must take a gamble and pursue her last option for salvation.

Alien #4

Preview: Alien #3

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Alien #3

(W) Declan Shalvey (A) Andrea Broccardo (CA) Dike Ruan
Rated T+
In Shops: Jun 28, 2023
SRP: $4.99

SOMETHING WICKED IS COMING THEIR WAY… The USCSS Boreas has been infiltrated! A chest-burster is wreaking havoc on base, leaving a trail of gore and eviscerated bodies in its wake. With their numbers dwindling, will the Weyland-Yutani security team be able to track the alien down before it becomes something even more deadly? And even if they do, how will they manage the horrors lurking just outside their walls beyond the ice?

Alien #3

Preview: Alien #2

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Alien #2

(W) Declan Shalvey (A) Andrea Broccardo (CA) Dike Ruan (VCA) Dave Johnson
Rated T+
In Shops: May 31, 2023
SRP: $4.99

BETTER OFF BURIED!
Talbot Engineering Inc. is under new management, but the organization’s brilliant chief scientist, Batya Zhan, is not willing to give up her coded work to this unexpected threat without a fight. Over at Zhan’s dig site, the intruders drill into the ice of the moon colony’s surface only to discover hundreds of dark, black, frozen bodies. With daylight quickly dwindling away, it’s anyone’s guess what horrors will emerge in the black of night and from the cold of the ice.

Alien #2

Exclusive Preview: Alien #2

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Alien #2

(W) Declan Shalvey (A) Andrea Broccardo (CA) Dike Ruan (VCA) Dave Johnson
Rated T+
In Shops: May 31, 2023
SRP: $4.99

BETTER OFF BURIED!
Talbot Engineering Inc. is under new management, but the organization’s brilliant chief scientist, Batya Zhan, is not willing to give up her coded work to this unexpected threat without a fight. Over at Zhan’s dig site, the intruders drill into the ice of the moon colony’s surface only to discover hundreds of dark, black, frozen bodies. With daylight quickly dwindling away, it’s anyone’s guess what horrors will emerge in the black of night and from the cold of the ice.

Alien #2

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Sins of Sinister: Dominion

It was new comic book day yesterday. What’d you all like? What’d you dislike? Sound off in the comments below! While you think about that, here’s some comic news and reviews from around the web.

Book Riot – The Most Influential Manga of All Time – What would you include?

Comicbook – Batman: Caped Crusader Two-Season Order Confirmed By Prime Video – Nice.

Kotaku – Disney Lawyers Are Done Playing, Sue Florida Gov. DeSantis – Awesome. We still feel a bit odd chearing for Disney.

Reviews

CBR – Alien #1
Comicbook – Deep Cuts #1
Comicbook – Sins of Sinister: Dominion
CBR – Sins of Sinister: Dominion
Comic Crusaders – Under God
CBR – W0rldtr33 #1

Preview: Alien #1

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Alien #1

(W) Declan Shalvey (A) Andrea Broccardo (CA) Dike Ruan
Rated T+
In Shops: Apr 26, 2023
SRP: $4.99

SUPERSTARS DECLAN SHALVEY & ANDREA BROCCARDO TAKE ALIEN TO BONE-CHILLING NEW DEPTHS!
Scientist Batya Zahn will do just about anything to get her family off the icy moon where they’ve been conducting research on water conservation. But there’s more than glacial springs to find in this forgotten corner of the galaxy. When they discover an extraordinary organism buried in the ice, it won’t take long for tensions to heat up. What is hidden in the snow comes forth in the thaw-and no one will be welcoming this spring. A new era of Alien starts here!

Alien #1

Alien #1 builds the tension in a new beginning

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Alien #1

Scientist Batya Zahn will do just about anything to get her family off the icy moon where they’ve been conducting research on water conservation. But there’s more than glacial springs to find in this forgotten corner of the galaxy. When they discover an extraordinary organism buried in the ice, it won’t take long for tensions to heat up. What is hidden in the snow comes forth in the thaw-and no one will be welcoming this spring. Alien #1 is a slow and tense build for the chaos we know will eventually happen.

Written by Declan Shalvey, Alien #1 doesn’t attempt to break the mold at all. It’s a simple story building towards the xenomorph attack we know is coming. But, even knowing what’s to come, the issue delivers a pace that adds little on top of little to deliver a solid and tight opening.

Explorers/miners discovering some ancient horror isn’t anything new. It’s a plot that has been done over and over again. Alien #1 is basically that as a trio are on a planet looking at the ice and figuring out if there’s useful water. Below that ice is an unknown amount of xenomorphs waiting to be woken up with a thawing. It feels like there’s an underlying warning there about global warming and the dangers that wait us as the world heats up, but even without going into that, the issue paces everything out nicely adding layers to the shitshow that is to come. Corporate buyouts, family tension, corporate stooges, it’s all there in what will likely be a classic horror story with a scifi spin.

The art by Andrea Broccardo is solid. With color by Tríona Farrell and lettering by Clayton Cowles, the comic has a cold look to it. You can feel the cold air and ice just looking at the pages which plays off of the white and gray of the world. What’s presented is great in the design as it feels like a setting that’s both scientific and lived in. There’s something rather practical about what we see and it fits nicely with the aesthetic that has been set up for the world of Alien.

Alien #1 doesn’t brake any ground but does break the ice (bad joke, we know). What it does is a solid build up slowly adding to the tension for what we know is coming. It’s classic in a lot of ways and it should be interesting to see if it keeps that up or if there’s twists and turns to come.

Story: Declan Shalvey Art: Andrea Broccardo
Color: Tríona Farrell Letterer: Clayton Cowles
Story: 8.4 Art: 8.3 Overall: 8.4 Recommendation: Buy

Marvel provided Graphic Policy with a FREE copy for review

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Graphic Policy’s Top Comic Picks this Week!

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Seven Years in Darkness #1

Wednesdays (and Tuesdays) are new comic book day! Each week hundreds of comics are released, and that can be pretty daunting to go over and choose what to buy. That’s where we come in

Each week our contributors choose what they can’t wait to read this week or just sounds interesting. In other words, this is what we’re looking forward to and think you should be taking a look at!

Find out what folks think below, and what comics you should be looking out for this week.

Alien #1 (Marvel) – An alien unthaws from the snow ice and we’re always pumped for a new alien adventure.

Bulls of Beacon Hill #4 (AfterShock) – The series has been fantastic with a nice brutal and gritty mob story.

By the Horns: Dark Earth #8 (Scout Comics) – The blight continues to spread across Solothus as the Augernaut repairs near completion and Yun Ma’s plan for the continent begins to take shape. An awesome fantasy series with amazing art.

Deep Cuts #1 (Image Comics) – Stories of struggle, joe, and hope through the history of jazz. We’re excited to read this blend of music and comics.

Green Arrow #1 (DC Comics) – The Emerald Archer is lost, and it will take Oliver Queen’s whole family to find him! We’re pumped for a new Green Arrow series and we’re hoping the entire crew gets the spotlight they deserve.

Invincible Iron Man #5 (Marvel) – Tony is getting roped into the world of the X-Men and how it plays out should be something new and interesting.

Local Man #3 (Image Comics) – The series has been great blending classic image superheroes with a bit of a modern twist. Really solid so far and one for fans of superhero comics.

Money Shot Comes Again #1 (Vault Comics) – The XXX-plorers are back on their hands and knees for the good of humanity! When the giant ass space jellyfish who run the ordered universe arrive on earth, the porn-stars-cum-science explorers must put away grudges, crushes, and side-hustles to once again take one (or two! or three!) for the team.

Plush #6 (Image Comics) – Rednecks versus cannibalistic, serial-killing furries. The series has been crazy in all of the right ways.

Seven Years in Darkness #1 (CEX Publishing) – The Academy of Black Magic has reopened its doors for the first time in 200 years! Seventy-two children will walk through the Academy doors for freshmen year. But only seven will graduate and walk out alive!

Silence #1 (Literati Press) – Johanna Jones returns to her hometown of Anthem, a down-on-its-luck shipping town, to discover the ship her father sailed on has gone missing. She ends up aboard a yellow submarine named the Heart of Gold, headed directly into Hades’ Hexagon to find the missing crew, accompanied by her childhood best friend, a rich young addict, and a punk legend.

Sins of Sinister: Dominion #1 (Marvel) – The event wraps up and we’re intrigued to see how it’s all pulled off in one issue.

Preview: Alien #1

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Alien #1

(W) Declan Shalvey (A) Andrea Broccardo (CA) Dike Ruan
Rated T+
In Shops: Apr 26, 2023
SRP: $4.99

SUPERSTARS DECLAN SHALVEY & ANDREA BROCCARDO TAKE ALIEN TO BONE-CHILLING NEW DEPTHS!
Scientist Batya Zahn will do just about anything to get her family off the icy moon where they’ve been conducting research on water conservation. But there’s more than glacial springs to find in this forgotten corner of the galaxy. When they discover an extraordinary organism buried in the ice, it won’t take long for tensions to heat up. What is hidden in the snow comes forth in the thaw-and no one will be welcoming this spring. A new era of Alien starts here!

Alien #1
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