- "I -- I've been trying to understand what happened between us -- trying to make sense of our passion -- but there is no sense to it. It just happened -- random, unpredictable -- like life."
- ―Butler
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| Aliens | |
| Title: | "Aliens" |
| Volume: | 2 |
| Number: | 4 |
| Cover price: | $2.25 |
| Cover date: | May, 1990 |
| Publisher: | Dark Horse Comics |
| Credits | |
| Chief: | Mike Richardson |
| Writers: | Mark Verheiden |
| Pencilers: | Denis Beauvais; Roger Casselman |
| Inkers: | Denis Beauvais |
| Cover artists: | Denis Beauvais |
| Cover inker: | Denis Beauvais |
| Cover colorist: | Denis Beauvais |
| Colorists: | Denis Beauvais |
| Letterers: | David Jackson |
| Editors: | Randy Stradley |
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"Aliens" is the untitled fourth and final issue of the second Aliens comic book limited series published by Dark Horse Comics. The series is based on the Aliens film series produced by Brandywine Productions and the Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. The story was written by Mark Verheiden with artwork, inks and coloring by Denis Beauvais, and lettering by David Jackson. Layout assists were provided by Roger Casselman. The story was edited by Randy Stradley. This issue shipped with a May, 1990 cover date and carries a cover price of $2.25 per copy (US).
"Aliens"[]
Featured characters
Supporting characters
- Butler (Final appearance; destroyed in this issue)
- Ellen Ripley
Villains
- Tommy Spears (Final appearance; dies)
Minor characters
- Spicer (Referenced only)
Organizations
Races & Animals
Locations
- Earth
- Gateway Station
- CL5
Items
Vehicles
- Cargo ship The McArthur
- Flamer tank
- Shuttlecraft
Miscellaneous
Notes & Trivia[]
- The Aliens franchise was created by director Ridley Scott and screenplay writer Dan O'Bannon. It was first brought to life in the 1979 sci-fi/horror movie Alien, which spawned multiple sequels, prequels, and crossover films. Other notable directors in the franchise include James Cameron, David Fincher, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, and Paul W.S. Anderson.
- This issue is reprinted in the Aliens: Book Two limited edition hardcover collection, released in 1990. It is also reprinted in the Aliens: Nightmare Asylum softcover trade, published in October, 1996. It was published in hardcover format in Aliens Omnibus, Volume 1 in June, 2007. It is also included in the Aliens 30th Anniversary: The Original Comics Series, Volume 2 from April, 2017 and Aliens: The Essential Comics, Volume 1 from October, 2018.
- The events of this series take place many years after the Aliens film and features Dwayne Hicks and an adult Rebecca Jordan. The 1992 film Alien³ throws a monkey-wrench into comic continuity with revelations about the final fates of Newt and Hicks. Subsequent reprintings of stories from this series see the characters' names changed to Billie and Lance Corporal Wilkes.
- Ellen Ripley makes a cameo appearance at the end of this issue. For the same reasons listed above, Ripley's appearance in this story is apocryphal, for she went directly to Fiorina 161 following the events of Aliens, which is where she died.