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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.
Rated T+
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Once again let me preface this by saying I love the Alien franchise. I have the movies the games and the comics.
The first issue as I said in my review started off a tad bit slow. However things start going down in this issue. Weyland-Yutani has arrived and is seizing control of the base and trying to get all research on planet.
They end up doing some digging to see what the researchers had found and they cause a portion of the ground to collapse. What they find I’ll leave for you to read and see for yourself.
Also towards the end of the issue one of my favorite types of xenomorps make its appearance.
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THere's nothing really to dislike about this issue, but it seems very generic. We have the corporation trying to get the research from the mom. The daughter has a facehugger in her backpack that thaws out at just the right time and the invalid father with one hand is stuck in the brig. Meanwhile the crane drill crashes through the ice revealing dozens of Xenos that suddenly rise to full health out of some kind of video game. There's nothing in the Xeno history that says they can live through freezing. If they had unearthed a frozen ship, I would have accepted that more. Pretty average story so far. I know everyone hated on android story from Williamson, but I thought that one was far superior.
Decent art, subpar writing.
The story in and of itself is standard stuff and I’m ok with that. What really hurts this though is it just seems like the writer has no clue how the Xenos work. If they are frozen how did they unfreeze on a Tundra planet. How do they live through fire to then suddenly be shown they are dead many panels later. Gestation does not take 2 hours. It is much longer.
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