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Aliens: Dead Orbit by James Stokoe
3.0

Reread 2023: Pretty much agree with my score. It's very fast read, minimal story, confusing at points too with the flow and pacing. However, the kills are nasty and the art is pretty goddamn great. So for a fast read with great art, it's worth checking out.

Original Review -

Well this was one of the fastest reads I've ever read.

Basically, it's a generic alien story. A crew finds three people frozen in their tubes. They try to release them. They do, but they're burned really bad. Get them to a medical bay and, yep, you guessed it. BOOM! Out of the chest comes the little aliens we all love. Then the crew goes around trying to survive while the aliens roam the ship killing and kidnapping them to harvest.

Good: The art. Well it's damn good. It's grimy, almost 80's or 90's like, but better coloring. I also thought there were some good kills and nasty bits of gorey fun. The aliens killing are always entertaining and the plotting, while light, is super quick.

Bad: The dialog is almost non-existent and when it's there it's just mostly mocho military talk, which would be fine, if you cared about anyone. And the story just kinds of ends in a generic alien fashion with a survivor and that's it...

Overall, this was a fun and quick read. I love Alien and Aliens. Some of my favorite films of ALL time. This isn't amazing like those but decent. A 2.5-3 out of 5.