Kickstarter Spotlight: Abyssal Albion #3
Following the release of the excellent first and second issues, the third chapter of post-apocalyptic survival horror indie comic, Abyssal Albion, is currently live on Kickstarter. Though I missed out […]
Comic Book Review: Alien #11
With their fellow survivor retrieved from the Xenomorphs – albeit at a terrible cost – Jane and the Spinners make their way to Gamma Station, now inhabited by another group […]
Comic Book Review: Alien #10
Escaping through the wilderness in the hope of finding a sanctuary to hide from the Xenomorph invaders, the Spinners find much, much worse than anything they faced in their colony […]
Comic Book Review: Alien #9
Though it does feature a few well-worn franchise tropes – the hidden, traitorous android and the dastardly company seeking to utilise the xenomorphs as bioweapons, for example – Phillip Kennedy […]
My Book of the Year 2021
My choice for the best book I read in 2021 didn’t come out last year at all, but going by my rule of the ‘My X of the Year 2021’ […]
Review: Aliens: Fireteam Elite
The last time a game based on Aliens was released for computers and consoles, we got the absolutely disastrous Aliens: Colonial Marines from Gearbox and Sega. A buggy, derivative, just […]
Comic Book Review: Alien #7
The first story arc in Marvel’s new Alien series was a bit of a mixed bag; it was full of well-trodden Alien tropes, references and even the basic ‘Weyland-Yutani fails […]
The Titan Books Alien Series: Review Links
Having made my way through the entire current series of Alien novels from Titan Books, which began with Alien: Out of the Shadows in 2014, I’ve now reviewed all of […]
Book Review: Alien: Into Charybdis (2021)
Author Alex White’s previous Alien novel, Alien: The Cold Forge, was a remarkable book – though it took place in a Weyland-Yutani lab in which experiments to weaponise Xenomorphs were […]
Comic Book Review: Alien #6
Marvel’s debut story in its recently launched, ongoing Alien series – the comic book behemoth’s first foray into the Alien universe, following Disney’s purchase of 20th Century Fox – reaches […]
Book Review: Aliens: Phalanx (2020)
I’ve read a lot of xenomorph-related books this year, having got myself all excited about video game Aliens: Fireteam Elite, which is finally out tomorrow. In getting myself all worked […]
Book Review: Alien: Prototype (2019)
It’s a shame that so many Alien-related novels fall back on so many obvious tropes or rely on familiar characters to spin their tales. Though Alien: Prototype is loaded with […]
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 […]
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 […]
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