Bits and PiecesAlien #9 treads on well worn territory in both the art and the writing. In the art, the familiar tropes are a success because they hit the creepiness nerve in just the right ways. In the writing, those tropes produce an issue that takes the originality of the colony's setup and devolves into formulaic territory. In short, this issue is a mixed bag of very good and very predictable. Read Full Review

Alien #9 shows how the colonists of Euridice fare against the alien Xenomorphs, and they're not doing too well. The writing by Phillip Kennedy Johnson is fairly good, especially with the character dialogue and pacing. The art by Salvador Larroca is good except when it's supposed to be scary and energetic, making the comic feel slow here and there. Read Full Review

With less-than-terrifying Xenomorphs rampaging through a story that's been told many times before, it's difficult to find a reason this hiatus shouldn't have been made permanent. Read Full Review

It's a shame because this is a fairly well-written, if heavy handed, issue. The problem is that the art cheapens everything. The art in this series in unacceptable, especially for a visceral horror series like Alien is. I just don't understand why we haven't gotten an artist change yet. This criticism isn't unique to me or new. Everyone seems to agree that the art sucks. Marvel should improve their product.