![]() ![]() Reprinted this year in a gorgeous hardcover edition for the 30th anniversary of the film, the comic stands as an imperfect relic from a bygone time. Their attitude and sense of purpose at the time was a perfect fit for the Alien universe, and in 1988, Dark Horse published Aliens: The Original Comic Series, a comic that continued the legacy of Aliens in the characters of Newt and Hicks, and carried the franchise forward with a story unconstrained by marketability, budget, or canon. For a newly founded comics company like Dark Horse, the timing couldn’t have been more right. Its release came at a time when studios were finally understanding the marketing power of movies as franchise and the term expanded universe was starting to be embraced more and more by creators as well as fans, hungry like ravenous wolves for more content from the mythologies that they loved. In July of 1986, James Cameron released Aliens, the long awaited sequel to Ridley Scott’s original masterpiece that forever changed our understanding of science-fiction, tension, and otherworldly horror on a cinematic scale. ![]()
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