Coming this July Marvel will honor the 35th anniversary of the iconic film Aliens with a special one shot release by writer Benjamin Percy and artist Dave Wachter.
In celebration of one of the most influential sci-fi films of all time Aliens Aftermath #1 will be a double sized issue containing an original story set in the terrifying Aliens universe. The action takes place at Hadley’s Hope and present a terrifying possible future for LV-426, the location of the iconic 1986 film.
It’s been 35 years since the tragedy of the Hadley’s Hope colony, but what happened during that ill-fated venture has been shrouded in mystery. A renegade crew of investigative journalists are heading towards the moon that Weyland-Yutani has wiped from all records, and they’ll bring back the truth even if it kills them…and what remains in that bombed-out site will try to do just that.
Here’s what writer Percy had to say:
“When I was a kid, I had a door-length poster of a xenomorph crashing through the wood, tearing off the hinges, creeping forward with a drippy fanged smile. This is the image I would drift away to every night, which no doubt influenced my imaginative hard-wiring, along with the films and comics that I watched and read over and over and over. To this day, I can’t grip a knife without wanting to lay my hand on a table and tick-tick-tick the point between my splayed fingers—I can’t play a game of ping-pong or Clue without yelling, ‘Game over, man.’—I can’t scratch an orange tabby without whispering , ‘You are my lucky star….lucky, lucky, lucky, lucky, lucky.’ I’ve been in love with these stories most of my life, and it’s truly an honor and a delight to celebrate the 35th anniversary of Aliens with a script inked in acid blood.”
Be sure to check out Aliens Aftermath #1 when it hits shelves this July.
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