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Marvel Comics Realises H.R. Giger's Vision For Their New Alien Queen

It's been teased for a year. Now Marvel's current version of the Alien comic gave a first look at their Woman In The Dark.


Marvel's current version of the Alien comic took a step back today, drawing on the original designs for the movie by H.R. Giger. Famously, these were part of Giger's original designs which inspired the look of the monster and the alien ships in the first Alien movie.

Marvel Comics Realises HR Giger's Vision For The Alien Queen
Section of The Spell by H.R. Giger

The Alien Queen in the subsequent movie Aliens went in a different direction, and James Cameron did not employ H.R. Giger on the movie, something he would later apologise to Giger for.  In the previous Alien comic book series from 2021, characters dreamed of a future…

Marvel Comics Realises HR Giger's Vision For The Alien Queen

Of something that might come, that may destroy them all – or something that they may become that would do the same job. This was from last year's Alien #6, before the series relaunched.

Marvel Comics Realises HR Giger's Vision For The Alien Queen

In recent issues of the Alien comic book, the Company has been running experiments based on Xenomorph genetics, and one of the cast has found themselves infected with the chemical residue.

Marvel Comics Realises HR Giger's Vision For The Alien Queen

Which has seen her transform into something with Xenomorphic traits, such as an extendable, spikey mandible of a tongue.

Marvel Comics Realises HR Giger's Vision For The Alien Queen

And later, transforming further…

Marvel Comics Realises HR Giger's Vision For The Alien Queen

… and communicating with the other Xenomorphs.

Marvel Comics Realises HR Giger's Vision For The Alien Queen

And so in today's Alien Vol 2 #6 by the same writer, Phillip K Johnson, she becomes the focus of the human and synthetic assault. even as the former plot to betray the latter, yet again.

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Though human assault is just that now. Human.

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And while the cover of the comic shows where she may end up…

Marvel Comics Realises HR Giger's Vision For The Alien Queen

But no longer a dream or an illusion, Mel is now the Woman In The Dark, accepted as part of the Xenomorph environment…

Marvel Comics Realises HR Giger's Vision For The Alien Queen

And, courtesy of artist Julius Ohta, looking more and more like those H.R. Giger Necronomicon designs

ALIEN #6
MARVEL COMICS
NOV220893
(W) Philip Kennedy Johnson (A) Julius Ohta (CA) Bjorn Barends
DEATH IS INEVITABLE! Steel Team is in fragments. Scores of innocent humans are dead after surviving years on an irradiated rock. A new kind of Xenomorph is emerging… hunting… killing. It's all built to this. Is this the end – or beginning – of a new horror?
Rated T+In Shops: Feb 08, 2023 SRP: $3.99


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Rich JohnstonAbout Rich Johnston

Founder of Bleeding Cool. The longest-serving digital news reporter in the world, since 1992. Author of The Flying Friar, Holed Up, The Avengefuls, Doctor Who: Room With A Deja Vu, The Many Murders Of Miss Cranbourne, Chase Variant. Lives in South-West London, works from Blacks on Dean Street, shops at Piranha Comics. Father of two. Political cartoonist.
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