Now that director Fede Alvarez’s “Alien: Romulus” has crawled underneath our pores and skin and offered ample nightmare gasoline whereas we sleep, it is time to sit up for the spookiest season of the yr and peer inside one in all Marvel Comics’ creepier upcoming Halloween choices.
As we first reported again in July, the Home of Concepts is releasing a particular “Alien: Romulus” one-shot comedian e book on Oct. 16, 2024 that was crafted with the complete cooperation of, and enter from, the filmmakers themselves. It addresses one of many hit sci-fi horror movie’s greatest questions: What occurred to Weyland-Yutani’s area station?
“Alien Romulus #1” is penned by horror aficionado Zac Thompson (Absolute Carnage: Avengers, I Breathed a Physique) and illustrated by up-and-coming artist Daniel Picciotto (Danny Ketch: Ghost Rider, X-Pressure). We have got a petrifying peek on the killer covers and 5 full pages of inside art work to share.
This is the official synopsis:
“Marvel’s one-shot will happen previous to the occasions of the movie, offering an illuminating backstory behind the movie’s principal risk. Made in shut partnership with Director Fede Alvarez and frequent collaborator Rodo Sayagues, each of whom wrote ‘Alien: Romulus,’ the one-shot provides a brand new layer to one of many greatest movie releases of the yr.
“Marvel Comics presents an all-new story revealing secrets and techniques of the movie’s legendary antagonists. This situation shines gentle on the tragedy that occurred on the area station Renaissance earlier than Rain, Andy, and their crew had their very own terrifying encounter there!”
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With the acidic alien blood settling and the eerie hybrid creature that was birthed within the movie’s last scene freaking out audiences worldwide, it is time to delve into an occasion that passed off previous to the twentieth Century Studios reboot that rolled again the clock to recapture the aptitude and feeling of “Alien,” director Riley Scott’s unique 1979 masterpiece.
“Romulus” is a retro journey again to old style storytelling and atmospheric scares utilizing principally sensible VFX monsters by Legacy Results and its award-winning former Stan Winston Studios crew that labored on James Cameron’s “Aliens” again within the mid-eighties.
“The ‘Alien’ franchise is answerable for my lifelong love of physique horror, so evidently, I am ecstatic to be contributing a small piece to the canon,” Thompson shared. “Working with Fede Alvarez to craft a prequel to ‘Alien: Romulus’ was a real dream come true and a duty I do not take evenly. The result’s an exhilarating, terrifying story that slowly gestates into one thing wholly unpredictable.”
Sporting a ferocious principal cowl from Leinil Francis Yu, and variant covers by Bjorn Barends and Marco Checchetto, Marvel Comics’ “Alien: Romulus #1 arrives Oct. 16.
