Ripley and Hendricks go nuclear in Aliens-Resistance No. 4
Aliens-Resistance continues to deliver hard-hitting action.
If acid-blooded aliens, evil corporations, power loaders and androids weren’t enough to make you obsessed with a fictional universe, Aliens-Resistance focuses on Ellen Ripley’s daughter, Amanda, who has her own xenomorph adventures while her mother is lost in space, cryo-sleeping the years away.
Linking two generations of Ripleys to the nefarious deeds of the supremely evil Weyland-Yutani Corporation was a fantastic plot choice; it allows readers, and writers, to envision multiple scenarios after the classic action of the Alien franchise occurs, shedding light on the machinations of bad people and the efforts that good people go through to prevent them from happening.
Writer Brian Wood, artist Robert Carey, colorist Dan Jackson, letterer Nate Piekos and cover artist Roberto De La Torre present a nerve-wracking look at Weyland-Yutani experiments and two people determined to stop those experiments for good.
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Three humans try to escape a terror jungle in Aliens-Resistance
In the last issue of Aliens-Resistance Ripley and Hendricks were asked to bring a hijacked colonist back to their ship by Davis, the disembodied android A.I. currently inhabiting a nuclear device on a Weyland-Yutani experimental space station orbiting the jungle planet the two women are on.
The colonists have tracker chips implanted in them that allow Weyland-Yutani to monitor them as they become food for the xenomorphs, and that chip contains enough data to implicate the soulless corporation in all their evil choices (like kidnapping innocent people to perform deadly experiments on them involving murderous aliens). Our heroines manage to find a living, uninfected colonist just in time for Davis to move the extraction timetable forward, forcing them to rush to specific coordinates, which means blasting aliens to pieces on their way there. Carey has a real knack for drawing the H.R. Giger-created monstrosities, and this series really lets him shine.
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Aliens-Resistance has a good way to survive a nuclear blast: technology
Davis brings the escape ship down to the rendezvous while Hendricks and Ripley blow away dozens of xenomorphs, making a stand on a rocky hill. They get the colonist, Alec, onto the ship right as the Weyland-Yutani androids on the space station manually separate the nuclear device from their space station, causing Davis to detonate the nuclear device. Our heroines know that they have to sacrifice themselves to let the colonist get off-planet, so that Weyland-Yutani can be taken down once and for all.
The ship takes off as Ripley and Hendricks are still firing away at the aliens and it breaks the atmosphere just as the explosion begins, immolating both the experimental facility and all the remaining aliens on the planetoid. The issue ends with Ripley and Hendricks activating the same “bouncy ball” tech that allowed them to survive re-entry back in the third issue, so it’s pretty likely that they will survive this nuclear blast, as well.
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It’s possible that this series will end after the next issue, but honestly it’d be great if Dark Horse kept an Alien-related series continuously running. The body horror and desolation of space and strong female lead characters are great selling points, and they make for a riveting read, as well. 9/10, strongly recommended. Will Ripley and Hendricks finally expose Weyland-Yutani or will they die in the nuclear fire? Will Davis’ awareness survive the blast, or will his last action have been to sacrifice himself for humans that he cares about? Let us know what you think in the comments section below.