THE SLICKEST, SICKEST, MOST SADISTIC ISSUE YET!
Collin Kelly, Jackson Lanzing and Michael Dowling's "Utopia" reaches its final generation, the worst of human nature on full display. Then in Bryan Hill's "Break Out," a man will do anything to provide a safe home for his daughter. And Weyland-Yutani is here to help... Then Eisner and Harvey-award winner Pornsak Pichetshote brings his horror chops to the Alien universe! With more to be revealed, Alien: Black, White & Blood is a must-have for any Alien fan!
Rated T+
The Alien: Black, White & Blood anthology concludes with another set of unique chapters for the franchise. Read Full Review
Utopia manages to mostly stick the landing by inverting the concept fully on its head in a pretty unexpected way. Hide & Seek and Mother are more examples of how limited writers seem to be when it comes to coming up with story ideas for this franchise. It all seems so rote.
Utopia was fine and the rest of the stories have varied in quality, but they've all been pointless. "Company bad" and "Aliens murdering people" are what we've been doing for the past 30+ years; Utopia was enjoyable because even if it wasn't anything groundbreaking, it wasn't exactly the same as the gazillion other Alien comics. To be fair, the anthology format is wrong and sets the writers up to fail; it's tough to do anything interesting with this IP with just a few pages. Another problem is that instead of seeking out writers who are good at SF or at least like Alien, Marvel just let all their regulars have a shot and it shows with how generic and lazy so much of the product turned out to be.
Plot
This special has several short stories from different creative teams:
“UTOPIA PART 4 By COLLIN KELLY JACKSON LANZING MICHAEL DOWLING and CHRIS SOTOMAYOR
Rating 3.5/5
“HIDE & SEEK” by BRYAN HILL CHRISCROSS and ANDRES MOSSA
Rating 4.5/5
“MOTHER” by PORNSAK PICHETSHOTE and PARTHA PRATIM
Rating 5/5
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