DEATH IS INEVITABLE!
Steel Team is in fragments. Scores of innocent humans are dead after surviving years on an irradiated rock. A new kind of Xenomorph is emerging... hunting... killing. It's all built to this. Is this the end - or beginning - of a new horror?
Rated T+
Ohta crafts some beautifully detailed and visually thrilling art throughout the issue. The action was breathtaking and generated genuine thrills. Read Full Review
The series is one that overall was a lot of fun even if because of the nature of how the synthetics were portrayed here felt more like a superhero comic than a science fiction story. That's not a bad thing to some degree but it just reminded me more of that than anything else. The general setup and concept is one that I liked and the nature of how badly things end isn't a surprise either. Johnson's story was pretty sharp and focused for a lot of it with some good dialogue, but I don't know how connected it is to prior Alien works and bits I might have missed. Ohta has been a favorite of mine for some time with other publishers but they did a great job here in capturing the feel of all of this and engaging in a world that's chaotic and violent without it being, well, cartoonish. It had the right edge to it and delivered. Read Full Review
Alien #6 concludes the story with not only Steel Team but also Phillip Kennedy Johnson's time on the Alien series. The art from Julius Ohta and Yen Nitro's colors continue to keep this comic visually alive and action-packed while Phillip Kennedy Johnson delivers on the writing for the most part. Admittedly, some of the story feels a little rushed as the comic tries to tie up as many loose ends as possible. However, it still manages to deliver a solid story and conclusion to this Alien series. Read Full Review
A decently energetic final issue. Read Full Review
I dont know why they just dont get the xenomorphs to attack the Navi in Avatar and be done with it but James Cameron must have nixed that idea at some point or it would have already happened. Read Full Review
There had previously been glimpses of ways in which this series could evolve the beloved franchise, only for that potential to almost entirely be squandered. Instead, we're given a montage of vaguely sci-fi scenes of monsters ambiguously fighting humanoid figures, leaving us to wonder what the hook of this narrative was meant to be in the first place. Read Full Review
I actually liked this series. I thought using the androids was a new take. Making it known that none of them were safe, made it more interesting. The grunts landed only to get whacked, which gave them a convenient exit from the planet. Having a human/alien hybrid was interesting as well. I felt it ended too quickly and conveniently. This series should have gone on for a few more issues to fully tell the story.
The ending is interesting enough. I just hope the next series does something with more depth.
Nothing much to say. PKJ's run on Alien ends on a whimper. That's a shame since this guy is fully capable of building worlds and epic stories, and that's not present in this run.
Well it finally ended. The action was good if a bit incoherent. The biggest downside to the whole arc is the synths themselves. The humans are pictured as jerks for “backstabbing “ them and get torn up but in reality the synths were built by humans. They don’t exist in any fashion without being built by them. They are not living. So the message is rather muddled.