There’s a genuinely interesting and original conceit at the heart of Alien comic, King Killer. Genetically modified humans on a remote planet, protecting their citizens from an ever present Xenomorph threat, have to contend with one of their own going rogue.

It’s pretty entertaining too, though it feels as if it’s a little too decompressed at times, spending far too much page space on action when there is a lot of background yet to be covered. There’s also some weird art choices, with some genuinely bizarre and inappropriate facial expressions in a few panels.

It definitely scores points with me for not being the usual Weyland-Yutani/Colonial Marines style retread of Aliens, though it barely feels like an Alien comic at all right now given its token, single Xenomorph that appears here away from the main plot.

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