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jenc's review
dark
tense
medium-paced
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
ponyonmyboat's review
adventurous
dark
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
mariakureads's review against another edition
3.0
Probably not the best thing to read during my lunch break considering the Aliens story line but it made my lunch enjoyable :)
As a fan of the Alien franchise, I was always thinking that the story line of Hicks and and Newt was worthy of more than what Alien 3 did and so I was thrilled to know that there was a comic regarding them but this Omnibus version has them under new names of Wilkes and Blue, which I don't wan to know why they did it when this is clearly Hicks and Newt as the story line provides names and places from the Aliens film so some panels I felt were a bit sloppy because of this alternative to the names.
A good forward at the beginning probably would have helped this but overall a good read.
As a fan of the Alien franchise, I was always thinking that the story line of Hicks and and Newt was worthy of more than what Alien 3 did and so I was thrilled to know that there was a comic regarding them but this Omnibus version has them under new names of Wilkes and Blue, which I don't wan to know why they did it when this is clearly Hicks and Newt as the story line provides names and places from the Aliens film so some panels I felt were a bit sloppy because of this alternative to the names.
A good forward at the beginning probably would have helped this but overall a good read.
shaunhamill's review against another edition
4.0
Very strong work here, most produced before Alien 3 and then altered after its release (Newt and Hicks became Billie and Wilks) to fit in with established film continuity. As a sequel to Alien 3, this material is confusing, since Ripley is still alive and the book never explains how she knows Billie and Wilks, and there are several instances where they forgot to change the names in "Female War," so that Ripley calls Billie "Newt." Honestly it would have been less confusing if they'd just left the names in place and considered this an alternate path than the one taken by Alien 3. If I didn't already know the history of these stories, I would have been at sea. I think the novelization of this story by Steve Perry made all of this make a little more sense, if I remember it correctly.
tsgalindo's review
1.0
It was okay. The art in the first part was terrible. The second part was better, the third wasn’t as bad as the first, but pretty close. The story was not really good in any of it. I don’t really like the idea that the queens can communicate to humans telepathically through their dreams and then make them gather others to her. The story and the writing felt like a bad first draft that was never edited or revised at all. Disappointing.
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