Marvel's Alien is Giving Fans The Xenomorph Hunt They've Always Wanted
Warning: contains spoilers for Alien #9
Fans have seen Xenomorphs hunt in all sorts of environments, but there is still one that hasn’t been explored until the Alien comics. It happens in issue 9, which is part 3 of a 6 part story arc entitled “Revival.” The issue was written by Philip Kennedy Johnson and illustrated by Salvador Larroca.
The story continues two years after the last arc’s conclusion. It takes place on a moon settlement called Euridice, which has recently finished terraforming its environment. They were expecting a ship from their company to arrive. Instead, a ship named the Heraclides crash-landed and a swarm of Xenomorphs poured out of it. Any fan ofAlien knows what comes next.
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Although it's not Earth, the story arc takes place in a very rural, Earth-like setting. There are cornfields and cabins for the aliens to hunt in. This is opposed to the rough, hard, and cold metal hallways of the spaceships fans are used to seeing the Xenomorphs kill their prey in. While reading the story, it's hard not to imagine that it's taking place in Kansas or the Russian countryside. Perhaps the story’s setting was picked by design so that fans can finally see what it would be like if a Xenomorph-infested ship crash-landed on today's Earth rather than a futuristic city, which is what the Earth has become in the Alien universe.
Of course, Alien stories in the past have tried to bring Xenomorphs to present-day Earth before. Most notably, the two Alien vs Predator movies tried their hands at this task. But in reality, they cheated. The first Alien vs Predator film took place in isolated Antarctica. Not just that, though, it took place in an
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