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Fire and Stone #5
Prometheus: Fire and Stone Omega
Angela and her fellow survivors are stranded on LV-223, but their mission is not over yet. The answer to their quest could be hidden deep underground, but the strangest nightmare of all stands in their way.
* From writer Kelly Sue DeConnick (Bitch Planet, Captain Marvel, Pretty Deadly).
* From writer Kelly Sue DeConnick (Bitch Planet, Captain Marvel, Pretty Deadly).
44 pages, Paperback
First published October 7, 2015
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About the author
Kelly Sue DeConnick
365 books2,232 followersKelly Sue DeConnick’s work spans stage, comics, film and television. Ms. DeConnick first came to prominence as a comics writer, where she is best known for reinventing the Carol Danvers as “Captain Marvel” at Marvel and for the Black Label standard-setting Wonder Woman Historia: The Amazons at DC. Her independent comics Bitch Planet and Pretty Deadly (both from Image Comics) have ranked as New York Times best-sellers and been honored with Eisner Awards, British Fantasy Awards and Hugo nominations.
Ms. DeConnick’s screen work includes stints on Captain Marvel, a film that earned $1B for Disney worldwide, and 2023’s forthcoming The Marvels with Marvel Studios; in addition to having consulted on features for Skydance and ARRAY, and developed television for NBCUniversal, Legendary Entertainment and HBOMax. Her most recent stage work is the mythic spectacle AWAKENING, which opened at the Wynn Resort Las Vegas in November 2022.
Mission-driven, Ms. DeConnick is also a founding partner at Good Trouble Productions, where she has helped to produce non-fiction and educational comics including the “Hidden Voices” and “Recognized” series for NY Public Schools and Congressman John Lewis’ Run, in partnership with Abrams Comics.
In 2015, Ms. DeConnick founded the #VisibleWomen Project, whose mission is to help women and other marginalized genders find paid work in comics and its related industries. The project continues to this day and recently expanded in partnership with Dani Hedlund of Brink Literacy.
Ms. DeConnick lives in Portland, OR with her husband, writer Matt Fraction, and their two children.
Ms. DeConnick’s screen work includes stints on Captain Marvel, a film that earned $1B for Disney worldwide, and 2023’s forthcoming The Marvels with Marvel Studios; in addition to having consulted on features for Skydance and ARRAY, and developed television for NBCUniversal, Legendary Entertainment and HBOMax. Her most recent stage work is the mythic spectacle AWAKENING, which opened at the Wynn Resort Las Vegas in November 2022.
Mission-driven, Ms. DeConnick is also a founding partner at Good Trouble Productions, where she has helped to produce non-fiction and educational comics including the “Hidden Voices” and “Recognized” series for NY Public Schools and Congressman John Lewis’ Run, in partnership with Abrams Comics.
In 2015, Ms. DeConnick founded the #VisibleWomen Project, whose mission is to help women and other marginalized genders find paid work in comics and its related industries. The project continues to this day and recently expanded in partnership with Dani Hedlund of Brink Literacy.
Ms. DeConnick lives in Portland, OR with her husband, writer Matt Fraction, and their two children.
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April 19, 2018
While short, Omega is a deceptively enjoyable micro-story as tiny as the one-shot moniker would well describe. Following up well to the betrayal, tragedy, and success of the last offering, the energy entailed within feels more akin to a survivors tale more in line with: (e.g.) Dawn of the Dead, with a similar level of highly personalized ennui and crushing fatalism. While never nihilistic, it does deal with significantly palpable degree of sorrow.
Survival gives way to the return of the ever evolving bio-synth, Eldman. The story develops generally well, with minor plot holes here and there until more of the planet is discovered. A nifty plot twist gives way to yet another nifty one. The ensuring crescendo is hardly crashing but well deserved for all involved, internalized characters and (us) readers alike. It’s warm, real, and most importantly human.
I felt like the entirety of the Fire & Stone arc was hit and miss but this ending is well done.
Single thumb up here.
Survival gives way to the return of the ever evolving bio-synth, Eldman. The story develops generally well, with minor plot holes here and there until more of the planet is discovered. A nifty plot twist gives way to yet another nifty one. The ensuring crescendo is hardly crashing but well deserved for all involved, internalized characters and (us) readers alike. It’s warm, real, and most importantly human.
I felt like the entirety of the Fire & Stone arc was hit and miss but this ending is well done.
Single thumb up here.
November 1, 2017
Awesome artworks, but the ending was just pointless and disappointing for me.
Such a shame because I really enjoyed reading (and re-reading) these series: it was like reading Alien/Predator meets Captain Achab and Frankenstein's monster on Gilligan's Island... with Tuco Ramirez from "The Bad, The Good and The Ugly" (Galgo's character is just that!) in space.
Not bad, but I was waiting for something more.
March 19, 2018
Kinda disappointed with this as a series finale tbh. The art was gorgeous, but the actual writing/story was soooo underwhelming. It was the shortest of all the volumes by far (the rest were around 125 pages each whereas this one was roughly 45 pages long) and I think that really worked against it - especially considering this was where I was expecting to have things wrapped up.
I don't know tbh - I need to review the series as a whole, but I have class soon, so it'll have to wait!
I don't know tbh - I need to review the series as a whole, but I have class soon, so it'll have to wait!
February 12, 2024
Sorry to flood everyone's goodreads, but I finished this one too. It was a satisfying conclusion that did a nice job of tying loose ends together. The artwork was also pretty solid. It went by really quickly and did not feel like 44 pages though!
Recommended.
Recommended.
November 9, 2015
This was a really good short continuing the story of some of the main characters from the first graphic novel of Fire and Stone. I really appreciate that they went back to them so I was able to sort of find out what happened to them, but then the story was so short that I never fully got an answer! But, as always, the art and story were fantastic. I read that this is the last one in the series and I do hope that's not true because I have REALLY enjoyed the Fire and Stone series. Worth the read 100%.
March 2, 2020
Why does this exist?
Promethus: Fire and Stone Omega brings all the surviving characters back on LV-223, including ones that shouldn't come back. Elden shows up again, punches more aliens, almost punches a predator, and does an existentialism. The humans go through a mountain and learn that the mountain is alive and full of acid blood but don't find the beacon, which wouldn't matter because they're so far from settled space that obviously no one is ever going to come for them. They find nothing, have no character development, and come out of it with the message of "at least we're alive," except existentialism is weird in the Aliens universe because the whole point is that the universe is a cruel and uncaring nightmare that produces creatures like the aliens, or at least it was until Prometheus canonized that they were bioengineered weapons instead of the products of nature evolution and made the Engineers look like bald dudes.
I have Opinions.
I can't even take refuge in the art, because while it was good, a lot of it was muddy. I was pretty unsure what was going on for the last half of the story, while the group was working their way through the mountain and almost getting killed for poorly-explained reasons. Even the sunrise at the end was muddy.
Skip this. It's not just pointless, it undermines previous stories.
Previous Review: Predator: Fire and Stone.
Promethus: Fire and Stone Omega brings all the surviving characters back on LV-223, including ones that shouldn't come back. Elden shows up again, punches more aliens, almost punches a predator, and does an existentialism. The humans go through a mountain and learn that the mountain is alive and full of acid blood but don't find the beacon, which wouldn't matter because they're so far from settled space that obviously no one is ever going to come for them. They find nothing, have no character development, and come out of it with the message of "at least we're alive," except existentialism is weird in the Aliens universe because the whole point is that the universe is a cruel and uncaring nightmare that produces creatures like the aliens, or at least it was until Prometheus canonized that they were bioengineered weapons instead of the products of nature evolution and made the Engineers look like bald dudes.
I have Opinions.
I can't even take refuge in the art, because while it was good, a lot of it was muddy. I was pretty unsure what was going on for the last half of the story, while the group was working their way through the mountain and almost getting killed for poorly-explained reasons. Even the sunrise at the end was muddy.
Skip this. It's not just pointless, it undermines previous stories.
Previous Review: Predator: Fire and Stone.
August 19, 2022
This crossover event joins “anything starring Machiko” as basically the most essential AVP comics in my opinion. This had a very cinematic scope that is exactly what you are probably looking for out of this franchise but is often actually lacking in other comics. And I also love how interconnected everything is but also that you could read any one of these individual series and still get a complete story and not feel like you were missing anything.
This extra long (44-page) one-shot concludes the crossover, and the first thing that jumped out at me is wow the art is amazing in this one. Not that the art is bad in any of the other parts of this crossover, but they really pulled out all the stops for this one.
They also finally made me like the asshole who abandoned everyone in Prometheus: Fire and Stone, which I know they were trying to do with his redemption arc when he was the protagonist in Predator: Fire and Stone but it just didn’t get me there. But the leader of the survivors decides to use him as bait to get the Predator to join them on their mission by putting him in peril. He asks why she doesn’t use herself as bait if she’s so sure it’ll work, and she straight up snaps back, “Because it’s not me he always shows up to protect, cowboy! It’s you. Like it or not, you are the damsel in distress in this scenario! [...] Now be a good girl, and tie yourself to the train tracks.” And then it works, and the Yautja shows up and just totally skewers the Xenomorphs that were gonna flay his human pet like a badass, and just… this dumbass has a Yautja boyfriend!! I love it.
While that one certainly takes the cake, there’s just so many other awesome character interactions in this. Like earlier, that same idiot asks, “Why does everyone always tell me to shut up?” And one of the lesbians goes into mean lesbian mode and snaps back, “Because you never do.” And later, the android/Engineer hybrid guy is giving the dumbass a hard time for being a liar and a coward, and he snaps back, “You’re not even human!” to which he replies, “And I grow more delighted by that with each passing day.”
There isn’t a ton of action in this one, but it does effectively wrap up the story in a way that brings all the surviving characters together, lets us know where they’re at, and leaves things nicely set up for a sequel, which is about what I thought it was trying to do. And it got me to the point where I do genuinely like all the characters and am interested in seeing more of them. So I think it accomplished what it set out to do quite well, with the great art and dialogue as an added bonus.
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Check out my compilation review of the Alien and Predator franchises on my blog, 24,000 Miles to the Moon! https://24000milestothemoon.com/2022/...
This extra long (44-page) one-shot concludes the crossover, and the first thing that jumped out at me is wow the art is amazing in this one. Not that the art is bad in any of the other parts of this crossover, but they really pulled out all the stops for this one.
They also finally made me like the asshole who abandoned everyone in Prometheus: Fire and Stone, which I know they were trying to do with his redemption arc when he was the protagonist in Predator: Fire and Stone but it just didn’t get me there. But the leader of the survivors decides to use him as bait to get the Predator to join them on their mission by putting him in peril. He asks why she doesn’t use herself as bait if she’s so sure it’ll work, and she straight up snaps back, “Because it’s not me he always shows up to protect, cowboy! It’s you. Like it or not, you are the damsel in distress in this scenario! [...] Now be a good girl, and tie yourself to the train tracks.” And then it works, and the Yautja shows up and just totally skewers the Xenomorphs that were gonna flay his human pet like a badass, and just… this dumbass has a Yautja boyfriend!! I love it.
While that one certainly takes the cake, there’s just so many other awesome character interactions in this. Like earlier, that same idiot asks, “Why does everyone always tell me to shut up?” And one of the lesbians goes into mean lesbian mode and snaps back, “Because you never do.” And later, the android/Engineer hybrid guy is giving the dumbass a hard time for being a liar and a coward, and he snaps back, “You’re not even human!” to which he replies, “And I grow more delighted by that with each passing day.”
There isn’t a ton of action in this one, but it does effectively wrap up the story in a way that brings all the surviving characters together, lets us know where they’re at, and leaves things nicely set up for a sequel, which is about what I thought it was trying to do. And it got me to the point where I do genuinely like all the characters and am interested in seeing more of them. So I think it accomplished what it set out to do quite well, with the great art and dialogue as an added bonus.
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Check out my compilation review of the Alien and Predator franchises on my blog, 24,000 Miles to the Moon! https://24000milestothemoon.com/2022/...
August 25, 2024
El punto final a una colección llena de baches y tropiezos que a fin de cuentas es entretenida, aunque plantea atropelladamente preguntas sobre la naturaleza de la vida misma, y peca de todos los clichés habituales del universo AvP. A su favor se puede decir que está escrito con mayor tino que otros muchos guiones de la saga, y que sin dejar de ser un placer culpable producto de la sobreexplotación de propiedades intelectuales que hace tiempo que dejaron de ser originales, sigue tejiendo un universo enigmático al que se agradece volver de vez en cuando.
April 15, 2018
Nice conclusion to the series.
April 26, 2020
el mejor de la saga! y el que más se acerca al espíritu de Prometheus
July 16, 2022
Continúa el desfase. Una buena excusa para ver aliens y predators en las mismas páginas y, de vez en cuando, te encuentras un intento de conectar con las películas.
July 8, 2015
This concludes the Fire and Stone run and follows
Predator: Fire and Stone
. The art is better again. It brings the (surviving) characters back together, but the story seems pretty pointless. Why did they make this again? Maybe, like, 1.5 out of 5.
February 15, 2015
Cierre argumental a los 16 comics anteriores. ME ha gustado, es bastante mejor que la película de Prometheus, probablemente si Prometheus no la hubiese rodado R.Scott hubiese sido mucho mejor película, pero debió de meter mano al guión e hizo el truño que hizo.
February 25, 2015
Solid story, but the ending was really less than I was hoping for, especially to something that Dark Horse made out to be as epic as they did.
August 6, 2016
Bišk gražiau nupieštas, bet į šitą dar ir Predator įkišo. Makalynė bereikšmė. Nea. #LEBooks
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