#NYCC2015: Aliens: Defiance Ongoing Comic Series Announced by Dark Horse
David Gelmini
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The Aliens series will expand with a new ongoing comic series announced by Dark Horse Comics at this year’s New York Comic Con – Aliens: Defiance, which launches in April from Star Wars, DMZ, and Conan writer Brian Wood and Silent Hill, Ghostbusters, and TNMT illustrator Tristan Jones.
Set between the events of Alien and Aliens, it will feature a new Colonial Marines protagonist named Zula Hendricks as she goes to war with the Xenomorphs, although Ellen Ripley’s daughter, Amanda, the star of Alien: Isolation, will appear. However, the series is very much intended to be its own thing and will not contain many connections to other Alien franchise media.
“Alien was groundbreaking when it first debuted and has only grown in relevance and pop culture legend since,” remarked Wood. “Thirty-seven years is an impressive amount of time for any entertainment property to thrive, much less still top mainstream headlines and fuel speculation like it does. It’s an honor to be invited to add to that legend.”
“Few films are as timelessly terrifying, and the fact that it continues to grip audiences and affect them beyond any of its successors and imitators (of which there are plenty) is the strongest testament to how truly transcendent everything that went into, and came out of, Alien is,” added Jones. “Being asked to be a part of something so defining, and so instrumental to the creative development of not just me, but so many, many others, is a lifelong dream come true.”
You can head over to Newsarama for a full interview with Wood and Jones, but in the meantime enjoy some of the badass cover art below. Aliens: Defiance #1 (of 12) is in stores April 27, 2016.
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