Alien #2 gets right into the action with the new Steel Team prepped and ready to face the horrors of Tobler-9. The comic doesn't take too long to show off Steel Team and have them get right into the action. Their encounter with the Xenomorphs falls more in line with the film Aliens as an action-horror story, which works in this story's favor. Read Full Review

With a solid foundation in the first issue, this one moves things along at a good clip. Almost too much of a good clip as we lose the chance to really take in some of the atmosphere of the location and the tension that comes from a world of ruins. It's definitely strong in terms of the visuals for this sequence of it and I like the characters generally, so I'm curious to see where it'll go, especially with our new introductions at the very end here. The synthetics are definitely interesting characters even if they do push this to that superhero level a bit in some ways and how much harder they are to kill but we know there's still an element to them not being invulnerable so I expect some of the bodies to really start dropping soon and that'll change them in a big way. Read Full Review

Im bowled over by both the organic fleshed out art and the humanising touches to the synths. This is shaping up to be a great stage two in Marvel's Alien lore. Read Full Review

Alien #2 delivers the Xenomorph-loving goods when the synthetic retrieval team faces off against an entire colony of aliens. The action is fast-paced, and there are enough surprises to keep the intrigue up, but some readers may be annoyed with the horror trope of dumb people doing dumb things to get themselves killed. Read Full Review

This issue kept us entertained and engaged, at least, as we're curious about where this storyline could go, so while it wasn't necessarily wowing us, being intriguing enough to keep us flipping the pages is still a stronger start than some Alien adventures. Read Full Review

Average at best. Steel Team is rather bland and it’s hard to root for non living things even though they portrayed as such. They still are only machines programmed to be this way. The action is fast and furious and I like the ending.

I almost feel like PKJ just came up with a clever name (Steel Team) and now he’s just trying to force a story around it. The elite team of un-killable androids easily dispatching the xenomorphs undermines what makes the xenomorphs, and the entire franchise, so compelling: they are the perfect organism matched only by their hostility, survival against them is based more on luck as it is on skill, and despite their best efforts most who face them will not survive. Except here they’re nothing more than fodder to show how awesome Steel Team is. The twist at the end keeps things interesting but I hope the story goes back to the root theme of showing how nearly hopeless it is to battle the xenomorphs.

Also not a fan of using the name of Christ in vain. The time will come where we will have to give an account for every careless word we have spoken, and at that time sacrilege in an attempt to get some cheap laughs or to add supposed depth to a silly comic book character’s dialogue probably won’t seem worth it. more