Book Review: Alien: Echo (2019)
Making my way through the recent range of Alien tie-in novels has been fun, but I must admit that – more times than not – the books have been entertaining […]
Book Review: Alien: The Cold Forge (2018)
“You know, Burke, I don’t know which species is worse. You don’t see them fucking each other over for a goddamn percentage.” – Ellen Ripley, Aliens (1986) That quote has […]
Comic Book Review: Alien #5
Ex-security chief Gabriel Cruz gave his life to Weyland-Yutani. Even after retirement he’s been brought back by the company, in an attempt to recover a xenomorph sample from the lab […]
Comic Book Review: Aliens: Aftermath #1
Set 35 years after Aliens (which is quite a neat touch, given that this issue celebrates the movie’s 35th anniversary), Aliens: Aftermath sees a group of humans making their way […]
Book Review: Alien: River of Pain (2014)
‘ALL NEW STORY’, the cover loudly insists in all caps. Yet this book – the third in a supposedly canonical trilogy of Alien novels, starting with Tim Lebbon’s Out of […]
Book Review: Alien vs Predator: Armageddon (2016)
The Rage War trilogy comes to a close – following Predator: Incursion and Alien: Invasion – with Alien vs Predator: Armageddon. It’s been an odd ride, with the first book, […]
Comic Book Review: Alien #4
As Marvel’s very first original Alien series – after parent company Disney picked up the rights to the franchise in their Fox deal – the comic had a lot to […]
Book Review: Alien: Isolation (2019)
Despite being released in late 2014 – and still, despite a few pacing issues and difficulty spikes, being one of my favourite games of all time – it took until […]
Book Review: Alien: Invasion (2016)
The second book in The Rage War trilogy (following Predator: Incursion), Alien: Invasion centres on the newly revealed ‘Rage’ and their weaponised Xenomorphs, each battalion of which is headed up […]
Book Review: Predator: Incursion (2015)
Despite feeling at times – with Ripley shoehorned into events between Alien and Aliens – like little more than fan fiction, the supposedly canonical Alien: Out of the Shadows by […]
Comic Book Review: Alien #3
Want to know my verdict on the third issue of Marvel’s first ever Alien series straight away? Then let me give you a quick hint: though I bought it upon […]
Book Review: Alien: Sea of Sorrows (2014)
A direct sequel to Alien: Out of the Shadows, albeit set 200 years later, Alien: Sea of Sorrows mostly takes place on LV-178, site of the abandoned mines that featured […]
Book Review: Alien: Out of the Shadows (2014)
The first book in a series that is considered to be canonical alongside the now somewhat tarnished continuity of the movie series (following the laborious, often nonsensical events of Prometheus […]
Book Review: Aliens: Infiltrator (2021)
With Aliens: Infiltrator being a prequel to Aliens: Fireteam – a co-op multiplayer video game due this Summer – there was a genuine concern that it’d be a lazy cash-in, […]
Preview: Aliens: Fireteam
Video games based on the ever-popular Aliens franchise have been a mixed bunch, despite the premise put forth in the movies, particularly 1986’s Aliens, being absolutely perfect for gaming. At […]
Film Review: Gamera vs Viras (1968)
By this stage, the Gamera films must have felt like a real annual event as they were being released in Japan. The fourth film since 1965’s first entry, Gamera vs […]
