Alien #2

Alien (2021-2022) (Single Issues)

by Phillip Kennedy Johnson

THE RETURN TO EPSILON! Cruz has only one chance to save his son from the horrific fate he barely escaped. The clock toward total collapse is ticking. The aliens are loose.

Genres: Comics, Horror, Science Fiction, Graphic Novels, Marvel, Fiction, Graphic Novels Comics

32 pages, Comic

First published April 21, 2021

About the author

Phillip Kennedy Johnson earned a Master of Music degree from the University of North Texas, where he served as Teaching Fellow for the Department of Jazz Studies, and a Bachelor of Music degree from Eastern Kentucky University. SFC Johnson has performed with the Lexington Philharmonic, Dallas Opera, Washington Symphonic Brass, and the Moscow Ballet, and was a member of the Glenn Miller Orchestra from 2004 to 2005. SFC Johnson remains active as a composer, arranger, teacher, and clinician, and also enjoys a second career as a writer of comics and graphic novels. His work has been published by DC Comics, Marvel Comics, BOOM! Studios, and more.

Reviews

[James DeSantis · Rating 3 out of 5]

This moves at a much quicker pace than I expected. Now that his dumbass son fucked everything up he's sent by the company to retrieve the Alpha. Of course he's sent with two soldiers who don't really know shit about Xenomorphs. So you can expect a bloody good time here. So begins the death and carnage I've been waiting for.

[Tiffany · Rating 4 out of 5]

2

Oh geesh bad things are happing to the station. Hopefully they can save some of the people left. I'm reading on

[Shannon · Rating 3 out of 5]

2.75

[Taylor Logan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Keeps getting better!

It’s going to be such a good series! I can already tell! Well worth the wait! Issue 2 is better than issue 1 and issue 1 was good for setting things up!

[Logan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Still pretty solid so far and the art is really stellar!

[Dennis Brock · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.75/5 Solid book but they seem so short

[Ian Sharman · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is more top notch stuff from Kennedy and Larocca.

The stand out moment, however, was at the very start. There's a scene with a little girl and her grandfather hiding while alarms blare and the aliens break into their quarters and all you really see is her face...and the tension is palpable, the sense of horror so very real.

The rest of the story is fairly standard Alien stuff, the man who thought he was out of it all is dragged back into it all and has to face certain death as he has no choice but to put himself in the way of the greatest killing machine that ever bled acid.

Look, if you like the Alien franchise you'll love this. I'm the kind of person who personally thinks there's no such thing as a bad Alien movie. So, of course I love this.

[Sheldon · Rating 2 out of 5]

As there were way less xenomorphs in Johnson's script for issue 2 there was much less photoshopped Alien action figures inserted by digital artist Larroca. Unfortunately uncanny valley humans remain. I've really nothing nice to say about this one, nothing new or unique in Marvel's launch of Alien to recommend.

[Khabeer Rashad · Rating 4 out of 5]

Tense and scary good‼️😱

[Jonathan Roberts · Rating 5 out of 5]

That’s more like it!!! Good second issue!

[RubiGiráldez RubiGiráldez · Rating 3 out of 5]

Lo cierto es que este número tiene todo lo que le puedes pedir a una historia de rápido consumo de Alien: iniciando con una escena que ya genera un gran ambiente de tensión. Los pobres diablos (si pueden ser colonial marines mejor) adentrándose en opresivos pasillos de nave/base espacial y los abrazacaras y xenomorfos ya formados acechando y, sobre todo, atacando. La historia de momento no cala demasiado en el personaje protagonista, pero cuenta con cierto interés de ver qué es ese sujeto de pruebas denominado Alpha que tanto preocupa a Weyland-Yutani.

[Jonathan de Souza Araújo · Rating 4 out of 5]

Quando a merda bate no ventilador alguém tem que limpar. Nosso soldado recém aposentado precisa correr atrás do prejuízo que caiu em seu colo por conta de seu filho ativista que acaba se envolvendo em um ataque na Estação Epsilon. Porém, ninguém contava em encontrar um laboratório cheio de experimentos com os Xenomorfos.

[b · Rating 2 out of 5]

*shrug*

I'll give the next issue a chance, but the guns-blazing Alien stories have never been as interesting as the horror of the original, and we all know how this one is going.

[True Sankofa · Rating 4 out of 5]

Love the pacing and build up throughout this series so far.

[Edward James Lauder · Rating 4 out of 5]

This new Alien series is getting better and better! I hope it doesn't let up. Really liking this new direction for Alien.

[Julio Bonilla]

What was in these cages?

[Jennifer · Rating 4 out of 5]

Review to come.