Aliens: Dead Orbit #1

Aliens: Dead Orbit

by James Stokoe

After a horrific accident strikes a space station, an engineering officer must use all available tools—a timer, utility kit, and his wits—to survive an attack from the deadliest creature known to man.Orc Stain creator James Stokoe pens a thrilling and claustrophobic Aliens Dead Orbit!* On sale on Alien 4/26/17!

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

33 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 26, 2017

About the author

James Stokoe (born September 4, 1985) is a Canadian comic book artist who is known for his work on such titles as Wonton Soup, Orc Stain and Godzilla: The Half-Century War.
Along with Corey Lewis, Brandon Graham and Marley Zarcone, he's a part of a studio/collective called "Yosh Comics".

Reviews

[mars · Rating 2 out of 5]

while this had fairly impressive inking in it, the dialogue was dense and made it difficult to read. overall i was kinda bored :/

[Nettels · Rating 2 out of 5]

2.5 star
The Story:
I wasn't that impressed with the first issue, same layout as most Alien stories, a ship with a crew (or in this case 2 crew-ish) and than something goes terrible wrong...
But that is not my main problem with the story, Felt like I didn't really had time to feel anything for the different character, there is actually no one that I really care for....but hopefully they will evolve a bit more in the issues to come.

The art:
A bit to "childish" (if that makes any sense) for my taste, it's not bad, just not my cup of tea.
Like the color scheme, and you get a bit of a the trapped in space kind of feeling.

Oh well, will pick up #2, just because....well, Alien! :)

[K De · Rating 4 out of 5]

James Stokoe is a very impressive artist. The story is not quite to the level of his visual skills, however. The characters, story, and pacing are good but you come away with a lack of clarity of definition between the characters. This is unlike such quick sketches of characterizations of each character in a Cameron's "Aliens". Where the viewer instantly can relate and understand the basics of how the overall group interacts. The comic book characters are not so easily delineated by Stokoe. This is not quite as unique as his previous work "Godzilla: Half Century War" but still a very solid effort. Read it!

[K. D. · Rating 3 out of 5]

In Aliens: Dead Orbit #1 a crew of 6 comes across a lone ship in space. They try to communicate with the members but receive no response, so they decide to board the ship to investigate. Of course, they find the unresponsive crew members, see that they’re in dire need of medical attention, and then they make an ill-advised decision to bring them back to their ship.

I’m not even sure how to rate this comic. It was short and unoriginal, but I liked the artwork. So for artwork alone, I’ll give it 3 stars.

[Mega · Rating 4 out of 5]

Oh gee, an issue of a comic where a character wakes up inside of a space station all alone, trying to remember what happened to them, and shenanigans ensue. Never seen that done before.

Also, apparently before this, he and his team had accidentally killed a bunch of people while they were in a bunch of cryotubes, so way to go, assholes. They were perfectly fine in cryosleep, and you just HAD to go and disturb their peaceful slumber! Yeah, they were probably gonna die out there, but leave that for them to figure out for themselves when they wake up... like anyone would.

Issue #1

[Bogdan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Read this last night.

The story has the same evolution like most of the Alien stories. A ship is flying alone in space. Others jump in to investigate. The alien thing is on bord.

But, really I didn`t care much of it because James Stokoe has made the drawings. One of my favourites artist ever.

It`s a pitty that he`s kind of underrated and hasn`t had a lot of graphic novels published.

Well, I hope this arc to really bust his future in the industry!

[Logan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interesting start! Artwork Is at times very good and claustrophobic but does take a bit more of a cartoony look to character designs compared to the Alien: Defiance ongoing series. Only thing I'm not too hot on is how the eyes are drawn, but otherwise I look forward to reading more!

[Flow Chi Minh · Rating 4 out of 5]

I haven't read a good Aliens comic in a long time. Then again I must admit I haven't read any in a long time. Dead Orbit's first issue sets a pretty decent if not very familiar stage.It will be interesting to see where Stokoe takes it.

[Kort · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great first installment to a killer Aliens short comic series. I enjoyed the graphics and the writing was mysterious yet tight. I wish there were more of a conclusion by the end of the final installment, but this was worth reading if you're a fan of the genre.

~ Kort

[DOUGLAS J BERRY · Rating 5 out of 5]

Tale set in the Alien setting.

Color artwork, dark horse freebie. A fueling station runs afoul of Xenomorphs or Aliens. A fair amount of violence ensues.

[Dennis Brock · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5/5 I liked it and can't wait to read the next one. I really like the style of artwork so highly detailed and busy...

[Gabriel Wallis · Rating 3 out of 5]

Actually not too impressed with this comic book. Aliens: Dead Orbit #1 seemed like a replica of the old Alien movie. Art was good, story was okay.