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Aliens: What If...? Collected

By: Paul Reiser, Guiu Villanova

The Aliens franchise gets the Marvel What If treatment, featuring notorious corporate man Carter Burke in an all-new adventure!

For years, fans of James Cameron's legendary ALIENS film questioned whether Carter Burke, a company man more hateable than the Xenos themselves, had actually survived the traumatic events on the terraforming colon...

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El Nopal rated Aliens: What If...? #5 Jul 17, 2024
9.5

Aliens: What If...? #5

By: Hans Rodionoff, Guiu Villanova
Released: Jul 17, 2024

WHAT IF...CARTER BURKE HAD LIVED? As if Burke wasn't already the worst boss in this galaxy, he just kicked off the office party from hell. Xenomorphs are loose in the mines, in the vents...hell, someone better check under the copier. It's all to save his beloved wife and redeem himself in the eyes of his estranged daughter, but Burke's in WAY over ...

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El Nopal rated Predator vs. Wolverine #4 Jun 10, 2024
8.0

Predator vs. Wolverine #4

By: Ben Percy, Ken Lashley
Released: Dec 27, 2023

THE BEST THERE IS AT WHAT THEY DO!
Who will take the final trophy? Will Wolverine's adamantium skull join the bones of countless others? The Predator's long hunt catches up to the present day as Wolverine sets his trap. But what hope does he have against an enemy who's slaughtered prey across the universe?
Rated T+

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El Nopal rated Predator vs. Wolverine #3 Jun 10, 2024
8.0

Predator vs. Wolverine #3

By: Ben Percy, Ken Lashley
Released: Nov 29, 2023

TIME TO BLEED!
The most gruesome chapter yet! Years after his first encounter with the Yautja, Wolverine's gone feral - just the way the Weapon X program likes him! If the Predator thought the mutant was hard to kill before...now he'll meet the real beast. But the prize this time isn't just the kill. Now Wolverine carries something precious wi...

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El Nopal rated Predator vs. Wolverine #2 Jun 10, 2024
8.0

Predator vs. Wolverine #2

By: Ben Percy, Andrea Di Vito
Released: Oct 25, 2023

"YOU PICKED THE WRONG MUTANT TO HUNT!"
And none knows it better than a Predator! After their first encounter in the Canadian wilderness, Wolverine thought he had moved on - to new fights, worse wounds and tragedies he only wants to forget. But a Yautja does not forget an enemy... At a time when Logan barely knows his own name and is running bl...

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El Nopal rated Predator vs. Wolverine #1 Jun 10, 2024
8.0

Predator vs. Wolverine #1

By: Ben Percy, Greg Land
Released: Sep 20, 2023

THE THRILL IS THE KILL! The bloodthirsty saga you've been waiting for! Wolverine has lived one of the longest and most storied lives in Marvel Comics history. Now witness the untold greatest battles of Logan's life - against a Predator! One Yautja seeks the greatest prey in existence - and finds it in Weapon X. From the blood-ridden snows of the Ca...

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El Nopal rated Ultimates #1 Jun 8, 2024
9.0

Ultimates #1

By: Deniz Camp, Juan Frigeri
Released: Jun 5, 2024

THE ULTIMATES RETURN TO GREATNESS! Spinning out of Jonathan Hickman and Stefano Caselli's ULTIMATE UNIVERSE #1, rising stars Deniz Camp (CHILDREN OF THE VAULT, 20th Century Men) and Juan Frigeri (INVINCIBLE IRON MAN) assemble an all-new team of ULTIMATES in a series that kicks off the next chapter of the new Ultimate line. Six months ago, Tony Star...

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8.0

Scarlet Witch & Quicksilver #1

By: Steve Orlando, Lorenzo Tammetta
Released: Feb 14, 2024

Old Rivalries and New Mysteries! The Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver have been heroes, friends, family heads and occasionally villains, but, above all, they are twins who look out for each other. So when Wanda receives a letter from the recently deceased Magneto that would upset Pietro, she burns the letter before her brother can read it. But her cho...

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8.0

Wolverine: Blood Hunt #1

By: Thomas Waltz, Juan Jose Ryp
Released: Jun 5, 2024

LOGAN FIGHTS BACK THE DARKNESS!
WOLVERINE's the best there is at what he does - and today, fighting vampires is going to have to top that list! Don't miss the MARVEL DEBUT of scintillating scribe TOM WALTZ (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, The Last Ronin) as he teams up with daring artistic dynamo JUAN JOSÉ RYP (WOLVERINE, VENGEANCE OF THE MOON ...

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El Nopal rated Aliens: What If...? #4 Jun 8, 2024
9.0

Aliens: What If...? #4

By: Hans Rodionoff, Guiu Villanova
Released: Jun 5, 2024

WHAT IF...CARTER BURKE HAD LIVED?
Or more importantly, what if Carter Burke was about to die a different, even more horrible death?! Xenomorphs are loose on the mining asteroid where Burke's made his small sad life and even-more-insignificant career. Panic is about to break out, slaughter to follow - and once again, it's all Burke's fault. Is ...

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El Nopal rated Aliens: What If...? #3 May 15, 2024
9.0

Aliens: What If...? #3

By: Hans Rodionoff, Guiu Villanova
Released: May 15, 2024

WHAT IF...CARTER BURKE HAD LIVED?
The facehuggers hit the fan as Burke's plan goes horribly awry! Desperate to capture the life-saving adaptative qualities of Xenomorph DNA - without Weyland-Yutani's knowledge - Burke and his only friend, a damaged combat synth named Cygnus, have brought Burke's own worst nightmare right into his living room. ...

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El Nopal rated Aliens: What If...? #2 Apr 12, 2024
9.0

Aliens: What If...? #2

By: Hans Rodionoff, Guiu Villanova
Released: Apr 10, 2024

WHAT IF...CARTER BURKE HAD LIVED?
Thirty-five years after the disaster on Hadleys Hope, company man Carter Burke is eeking out a cursed existence on a backwater asteroid. With his once-promising career in the toilet, Burke's only remaining purpose in life is to care for his daughter, Brie. She hates him, probably for being a horrible person. A...

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El Nopal rated Predator #3 Mar 7, 2024
8.0

Predator #3

By: Ed Brisson, Kev Walker
Released: Oct 19, 2022

Theta is ambushed by a Predator! But is this the Predator that she's been tracking all these years? And without her weaponry, is she prepared to take it on one-on-one?
Parental Advisory

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El Nopal rated Predator #2 Mar 7, 2024
8.5

Predator #2

By: Ed Brisson, Kev Walker
Released: Sep 14, 2022

Theta crash-lands on a tundra planet, and her odds of surviving are looking slim! Her only hope is to trek through the wilds to the nearest outpost. But the cold isn't the only thing she has to worry about...as a Predator watches in the shadow, ready to strike!
PARENTAL ADVISORY

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El Nopal reviewed Aliens: What If...? #1 Mar 7, 2024
9.0

great start!

Aliens: What If...? #1

By: Hans Rodionoff, Guiu Villanova
Released: Mar 6, 2024

WHAT IF...CARTER BURKE HAD LIVED? For years, fans of James Cameron's legendary Aliens questioned whether Carter Burke, a company man more hateable than the Xenos themselves, had actually survived the traumatic events on the terraforming colony Hadley's Hope. Now the actor behind the beloved villain, Paul Reiser, joins his son Leon and the star-stud...

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El Nopal reviewed Damage Control #5 Dec 31, 2022
9.5

The best one yet!

Damage Control #5

By: Adam F. Goldberg, Nathan Stockman
Released: Dec 7, 2022

This is it... This is Gus's absolute last, last chance to find a place to fit in at Damage Control. Unfortunately, the only remaining department that will have him is the Deep Storage Vault - where he is tasked with cataloging the contents of all the endless rows of crates and containers. Seems like it should be fairly low-risk. However, this is Gu...

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El Nopal rated Midnight Suns #1 Dec 8, 2022
9.0

Midnight Suns #1

By: Ethan Sacks, Luigi Zagaria
Released: Sep 14, 2022

RISE OF THE MIDNIGHT SUNS!
A dark prophesy and apocalyptic new villains with horrifying powers the likes of which Earth has never faced before ordains a team of MIDNIGHT SUNS to rise and tear @#$% up: MAGIK, WOLVERINE, BLADE, SPIRIT RIDER & NICO MINORU. But what does this new threat have to do with the Sorcerer Supreme's past? And why is STRANG...

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El Nopal reviewed Damage Control #4 Nov 9, 2022
9.5

Keeps getting better!

Damage Control #4

By: Adam F. Goldberg, Nathan Stockman
Released: Nov 9, 2022

It's been a tough first week for Gus at Damage Control. On Monday, he nearly caused a catastrophic Skrull attack. On Tuesday, he smushed a family who had been shrunk by Pym Particles, and on Wednesday, he turned himself into a monstrous guinea pig Kaiju. That's why Gus has been banished down to research and development to assist Eugene Strausser. B...

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El Nopal reviewed Damage Control #3 Nov 3, 2022
9.5

Best issue yet!

Damage Control #3

By: Adam F. Goldberg, Will Robson
Released: Nov 2, 2022

After two disastrous days of office mayhem, Head Intern Bart Rozum decides that he has to find Gus a job outside of the Flatiron Building - so he assigns Gus to the Search and Rescue unit. Bart thinks, if Gus is mostly responding to the scenes of superhuman battles after the fact, how much trouble could he really get in to? Unfortunately, on Gus' f...

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El Nopal rated Predator #1 Sep 29, 2022
7.5

Predator #1

By: Ed Brisson, Kev Walker
Released: Aug 10, 2022

HUNT. KILL. REPEAT.
In the near future, a young girl sees her family slaughtered by the deadliest and most feared hunter in the universe: a PREDATOR. Years later, though her ship is barely holding together and food is running short, Theta won't stop stalking the spaceways until the Yautja monster who killed her family is dead...or she is. Ed Br...

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El Nopal rated Alien #1 Sep 29, 2022
8.0

Alien #1

By: Phillip Kennedy Johnson, Salvador Larroca
Released: Mar 24, 2021

THE ICONIC CINEMATIC TERROR MAKES ITS MARVEL DEBUT!
Gabriel Cruz gave his life to Weyland-Yutani--In the case of an alien attack he barely survived, almost literally! Recently retired, Cruz is trying to patch things up with his abandoned son with the help of his friend, a Bishop-model android, but his re-entry into civilian life is not going sm...

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El Nopal rated Damage Control #2 Sep 29, 2022
9.0

Damage Control #2

By: Adam F. Goldberg, Will Robson
Released: Sep 28, 2022

FROM THE WRITERS OF TV'S THE GOLDBERGS!
After he nearly caused a Skrull attack in our last issue, the management at Damage Control has wisely chosen to try and place Gus in a less volatile position. How much harm can Gus do in the Consumer Affairs office, listening to complaints and grievances? Actually, the answer is a lot. When things get out...

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El Nopal rated Possessive #3 Sep 29, 2022
9.0

Possessive #3

By: Adam F. Goldberg
Released: Oct 20, 2021

36 Pages of Content!
Everything finally seems to be going right for Todd.  He is basically living life as Todd 2.0. He's fixed up his house, he's coming into his own as an artist, and he has a new ghoulfriend who lives in his attic. What could go wrong? Believe us, Todd is about to find out. And a few literal skeletons in his closets ...

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El Nopal rated Possessive #2 Sep 29, 2022
9.5

Possessive #2

By: Adam F. Goldberg
Released: Sep 15, 2021

So...Todd's life just got a whole lot weirder. He has a new house, a new roommate, a new death wish? After Todd's first meeting with Lady Jane Baker, the murderous spirit who lives in his attic, let's just say things took an odd turn. Left, basically, asking for death and confused beyond description, Todd is going to soon learn that this is just th...

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El Nopal rated Possessive #1 Sep 29, 2022
9.0

Possessive #1

By: Adam F. Goldberg
Released: Jul 28, 2021

Let's not mince words. Todd's a loser. He has no job, no prospects, and almost no drive. With his wife ready to take the children and go, Todd buys the family their dream home.  Todd takes a chance on a house that needs much more upkeep than a few coats of paint and new carpet.  And little does Todd know, in the attic resides a ...

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El Nopal rated Damage Control #1 Sep 29, 2022
9.0

Damage Control #1

By: Adam F. Goldberg, Jay P. Fosgitt
Released: Aug 24, 2022

FROM THE CREATOR OF TV'S THE GOLDBERGS!
Marvel's Unsung Heroes finally get sung! After the mega-powered battles and Hulk-level catastrophes, Damage Control is always there to clean up the mess and get things back to normal. But Damage Control is much more than just a glorified cleanup crew, and this new series will pull back the curtain and rev...

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