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 […]
Alien (Atari 2600): An Alien Day Video Game Review
Happy Alien Day everyone! Yes, it’s that day of the year which coincidentally matches up with the name of the planet in Aliens (at least if you’re using the American […]
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 Biggest Achievements of 2021
Though there’s a general lack of oomph – that I’m sure befalls everyone – after the excitement and then relaxation of the Christmas period, it’s a good time to pause […]
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’ […]
Book Review: Alien: The Official Cookbook
Filled with hilariously incentive recipes to turn usually innocuous meals into creations resembling different stages of the Xenomorph life cycle, Alien: The Official Cookbook is a great gift for the […]
TV Review: The Movies That Made Us – S3/E4: Aliens
Anyone who knows me even a little is likely to know how much of an Aliens fan I am, and to a lesser extent the Alien franchise in general; certainly […]
Comic Book Review: Alien #8
It’s completely coincidental timing, but I’ve had a bit of a Western themed week: a board game review of Western Legends, a comic book review of weird west story The […]
News: Aliens: Fireteam Elite – Steam Player Numbers Dip Below 1000
Sad news reported at Kotaku Australia: just seven weeks after a relatively successful launch, which saw player numbers around a healthy 10k – despite numerous bugs and missing features (such […]
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 […]
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Well, it doesn’t happen often – does it? Regular readers of the blog will know that I’ve been catching up with the Titan Books Alien novels, which I’d been reading […]
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 […]
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