Aliens Epic Collection: The Original Years, Vol. 3

Aliens Epic Collection: The Original Years

by Steven Grant, Dan Jolley, Sarah Byam

The Epic Collection series of classic ALIEN comics continues! An elite team of Space Marines takes the fight to the Aliens across the galaxy! Meanwhile, Professor Ernst Kleist has achieved the impossible: He has genetically engineered powerful, obedient Aliens. But the horror of nature is dwarfed by the terror of the man toying with it! And he isn't the only one carrying out experiments on the Aliens: Colonel Doctor Paul Church, head of the space station Innominata, is determined to find out what makes them tick - and he's using Colonial Marines as bait. But the U.S. government doesn't like what it's hearing, and they send an investigator empowered to get the truth - any way he can! Plus: more tales of Alien horror!

Collecting:
Alien 3 (1992) 1-3,
Aliens: Space Marines (1992) 1-12,
Aliens: Rogue (1993) 1-4,
Aliens: Labyrinth (1993) 1-4;
material from Dark Horse Comics (1992) 3-5, 11-13;
Previews (1993) 1-12;
Previews (1994) 1;
Aliens Magazine (1992) 9-12

Genres: Comics

472 pages, Paperback

First published November 18, 2025

About the author

Steven Grant is an American comic book writer best known for his 1985–1986 Marvel Comics mini-series The Punisher with artist Mike Zeck and for his creator-owned character Whisper.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_...

Reviews

[Jonathan Ammon · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is an uneven collection. This starts with a poor adaptation of ALIEN3 and follows it up with poor comic shorts that accompanied Colonial Marine toys. What follows are very good and extremely dark Aliens comics mostly made up of mad scientist stories. The art and writing are both good. The final series is one of the darkest, grossest, and most nightmarish comics I've ever seen.

[Pullman · Rating 3 out of 5]

This part of the collection started out really rough, with a pretty bad adaptation of the already questionable third Alien Movie, that mostly stood out because the artist made Ripley look like a Kardashian, with oversized lips that always seemed to wear lipstick for some reason. My guess is he couldn't figure out how to draw a woman with no hair. The remaining cast were hard to distinguish too, because there was a lot of baldness and drawing other features to distinguish them really isn't the strongsuit of the artist. It generally felt pretty low quality.

It then continued to get worse with a series of comics that were included with action figures back in the day and whose main and only gimmick was that they combined Xenomorph physiology with various random animals. Very far removed from everything I like about the franchise, and so gimmicky that it felt almost blasphemous.

The middle parts of this volume were mostly forgetable stories with forgetable art, but at least a step up from the terrible early parts. But towards the end we got two stories about mad scientists interacting with the aliens and

[Chad · Rating 4 out of 5]

This has some weird stuff in it. Comics bundled in toy packages. A one page trading card comic where every card is a panel. There's certainly stuff here you wouldn't expect to find. Aliens: Labyrinth was my favorite. It's absolutely bonkers. Individual reviews below.

Alien 3 1-3 ★
Aliens: Space Marines 1-12 ★★
Aliens: Sacrifice 1-4 ★★
Aliens: Earth Angel ★★★
Aliens: Taste ★★★★
Aliens: Rogue ★★★
Aliens: Labyrinth 1-4 ★★★★★

[Eric Butler · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is the best Marvel Epic Collection they put out for the Aliens series. It's definitely the most consistent. Loved the art and loved the stories.

COLLECTING: Alien 3 (1992) 1-3, Aliens: Space Marines (1992) 1-12, Aliens: Rogue (1993) 1-4, Aliens: Labyrinth (1993) 1-4; material from Dark Horse Comics (1992) 3-5, 11-13; Previews (1993) 1-12; Previews (1994) 1; Aliens Magazine (1992) 9-12