Over the past few years, Marvel Comics has been on a tear with its rollout of Alien comic books. What started with writer Phillip Kennedy Johnson (Incredible Hulk) and artist Salvador Larroca (X-Men) turned into mini-series like Alien: Black, White & Blood, Alien vs Avengers, and Marvel’s newest and current mini-series Alien vs Captain America.
Issue No. 3 of the latter was recently released and has shown the most terrifying versions of the Xenomorphs.
Aliens vs Captain America No. 3 creative team
- Writer: FrankTieri
- Artist: Stefano Raffaele
- Colors: Neeraj Menon
For those of you who don’t know, the Xenomorphs are a parasite-like alien race that lay eggs inside a being with a stage of growth called facehuggers. This is how they're birthed inside the host and become full-fledged Xenomorphs. The interesting thing about them is that adult Xenomorphs can take on characteristics of the hosts. For example, in Alien vs Predator, they were born with some of the physical features and skills of the Yautja.
Now, imagine a Xenomorph if they hatched inside the Skrull or the Kree? They'd have the Skrull's shape-shifting abilities and the Kree's intelligence. Well, there's no need to imagine what that would look like anymore. It just happened in Alien vs Captain America No. 3, and it wasn’t just a few of them either.
Captain Mar-Vell of the Kree Empire told Steve Rogers and his soldiers how the Kree military learned about the Xenomorphs when they took over a Skrull spaceship during the Kree/Skrull War. The Skrull/Xenomorph hybrids eventually made their way to the Kree homeworld, Hala. It didn’t take long for the Xenomorphs to lay eggs and for the facehuggers to lay eggs in the Kree.
After finishing them off in Hala (and taking heavy losses), Captain Mar-Vell killed the Xenomorphs wherever they could be found. The plan was to eradicate them from the universe. This is how the Kree ended up on Earth in 1944 during World War II.
Captain America, Bucky Barnes, Nick Fury, Captain Mar-Vell, and the Kree soldiers attempted to stop the Red Skull from accomplishing his plan, Operation: Red King. Sadly, they were too late. Red Skull’s plan was to control the Xenomorphs and drop them in Normandy.
I thought Xenomorph Skrulls were the scariest thing I’d see in this issue. Then, Frank Tieri decided to create nightmare fuel with the Red Skull as their king. The creepy Red Skull-face is bad enough, but Schmidt has his alien hatchlings working like well-oiled killing machines.
As much as comic book fans may hope that everything works out in the end, this may not be that kind of series. Just like in Aliens vs Avengers, humanity loses to the Xenomorphs. This may not be in the same universe, but this could end with Hydra and Red Skull's new species running the world. Stay tuned to Bam Smack Pow to find out if that happens.
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