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jsjammersmith's review
5.0
There's a Predator named Ahab obsessed with killing an Engineer. That's really all the excuse I needed to read this book.
This book is a beautiful homage to its source material, for not only does the storyline explore the themes and aesthetics of the Alien, Predator, and Prometheus universes, it also provides the reader with a solid storyline of a group of refugees that land on the moon LV-233, the site of the original Prometheus mission. From that point on the reader is allowed to observe how this group manages to barely survive near constant attack by xenomorphs, betrayal from their inner ranks, exposure to Predator aliens attempting to hunt Engineers, and finally a synthetic being named Elden who's been exposed to the "black goop" which possesses the incredible ability to accelerate a host's body making it new, while at the same time breaking it down completely.
Fire and Stone is part of a multi-issue series and this book does an incredible job bringing all of these storylines together to create a single larger narrative about the nature of life, and the complicated nature of creation. Each storyline is balanced by artwork that connects beautifully with the subtext and theme of the arc, and the characters of each chapter are sure to keep the reader pushing through this book.
My only beef I suppose is the pronounced lack of an engineer storyline, but then again, the story really isn't about them. The creation looks for meaning or purpose, but by the end of Fire and Stone the characters arrive at a firm conclusion: life just is, and sometimes god is not benevolent.
This book is worth the reader's time because it is beautiful, visually and rhetorically. It remains true to the source material, while building the universe for further works. And like I said at the start, there's a Predator named Ahab. Nuff said.
This book is a beautiful homage to its source material, for not only does the storyline explore the themes and aesthetics of the Alien, Predator, and Prometheus universes, it also provides the reader with a solid storyline of a group of refugees that land on the moon LV-233, the site of the original Prometheus mission. From that point on the reader is allowed to observe how this group manages to barely survive near constant attack by xenomorphs, betrayal from their inner ranks, exposure to Predator aliens attempting to hunt Engineers, and finally a synthetic being named Elden who's been exposed to the "black goop" which possesses the incredible ability to accelerate a host's body making it new, while at the same time breaking it down completely.
Fire and Stone is part of a multi-issue series and this book does an incredible job bringing all of these storylines together to create a single larger narrative about the nature of life, and the complicated nature of creation. Each storyline is balanced by artwork that connects beautifully with the subtext and theme of the arc, and the characters of each chapter are sure to keep the reader pushing through this book.
My only beef I suppose is the pronounced lack of an engineer storyline, but then again, the story really isn't about them. The creation looks for meaning or purpose, but by the end of Fire and Stone the characters arrive at a firm conclusion: life just is, and sometimes god is not benevolent.
This book is worth the reader's time because it is beautiful, visually and rhetorically. It remains true to the source material, while building the universe for further works. And like I said at the start, there's a Predator named Ahab. Nuff said.
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