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Aliens #24: Earth Angel #24: Earth Angel
Into the age of diners, leather jackets, and Buddy Holly comes a monster worse than any that ever made popcorn fly in front of a drive-in screenthe Alien. Legendary creator John Byrne puts his unique spin on the Aliens universe with a tale of the first Alien invasion, one that took place in 1950's suburban America! When you Byrne an Alien, you know it'll give off heat!
26 pages, Kindle Edition
First published August 1, 1994
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John Byrne
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John Lindley Byrne is a British-born Canadian-American author and artist of comic books. Since the mid-1970s, Byrne has worked on nearly every major American superhero.
Byrne's better-known work has been on Marvel Comics' X-Men and Fantastic Four and the 1986 relaunch of DC Comics’ Superman franchise. Coming into the comics profession exclusively as a penciler, Byrne began co-plotting the X-Men comics during his tenure on them, and launched his writing career in earnest with Fantastic Four (where he also started inking his own pencils). During the 1990s he produced a number of creator-owned works, including Next Men and Danger Unlimited. He also wrote the first issues of Mike Mignola's Hellboy series and produced a number of Star Trek comics for IDW Publishing.
There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name
John Lindley Byrne is a British-born Canadian-American author and artist of comic books. Since the mid-1970s, Byrne has worked on nearly every major American superhero.
Byrne's better-known work has been on Marvel Comics' X-Men and Fantastic Four and the 1986 relaunch of DC Comics’ Superman franchise. Coming into the comics profession exclusively as a penciler, Byrne began co-plotting the X-Men comics during his tenure on them, and launched his writing career in earnest with Fantastic Four (where he also started inking his own pencils). During the 1990s he produced a number of creator-owned works, including Next Men and Danger Unlimited. He also wrote the first issues of Mike Mignola's Hellboy series and produced a number of Star Trek comics for IDW Publishing.
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January 11, 2021
As a 1950's horror film, this works great. As an Aliens comic it has some issues with Aliens lore. I do think John Byrne did Alien better the first time around in X-Men #143 with the Aliens knockoff, the N'garai.
August 9, 2022
More of a 1.5 maybe...
I must confess that I'm usually not too into one-shot comics like this, so perhaps rating is a bit biased in that regard. However, being an immense fan of the Aliens universe, I tend to collect and read everything I can that is published. When I do seem to enjoy a one-shot comic it is usually a double sized comic or so and about 64 pages. I think that page length gives the author more time to develop a fuller story which feels more like a proper episode of something you'd wathc on TV. Whereas with a single comic length, like this, it's like only being exposed to a couple scenes and nothing more. So, there's never really much in the way of character development, just people doing things or responding to some action etc.
All that being said "Earth Angel" is a short story in the Aliens universe which takes place in the 50's. I sort of feel like the author was watching Back to the Future or Grease or something and was suddenly inspired to write a horror tale. Basically, two people witness a space ship crash and when they go to investigate it they find the pilot with a face hugger attached to them. This, naturally, kicks off the usual Alien tale.
After the two people find the space ship, they quickly bring the face huggered alien to a doctor... makes sense for 50's stuff. No one really says much about it being an alien, probably because there just aren't enough pages. Well, the author had to take some liberties with the gestation to full growth concept to fit this all into a small amount of pages, fine. However, their artistic representation just looked ridiculous really. I feel like they tried to follow in the footsteps of the Action figures and make the Alien look like the creature it was spawned from, but that was only kind of true for it's face. The body looked more like it was inspired by Violator from the Spawn comics. This kind of pulled me away from this even remotely being related to Aliens and seemed more like a generic monster attack tale.
The Alien creature finds its way to a biker bar and terrorizes some bikers. The strange part is that amidst all this, there are more Alien eggs and the Alien was taking the bikers to spawn more creatures. I don't think it was shown anywhere that this was a Queen Alien, so this story makes no real sense even within the Aliens universe. Like I said, it seems more like generic monster tale inspired by some Aliens stuff.
In the end... I didn't even really like it very much. Just seemed campy and not part of the actual universe. I don't mind the idea of Aliens showing up with a space crash in the 50's, but it would be nice if they were actually from Aliens...
I must confess that I'm usually not too into one-shot comics like this, so perhaps rating is a bit biased in that regard. However, being an immense fan of the Aliens universe, I tend to collect and read everything I can that is published. When I do seem to enjoy a one-shot comic it is usually a double sized comic or so and about 64 pages. I think that page length gives the author more time to develop a fuller story which feels more like a proper episode of something you'd wathc on TV. Whereas with a single comic length, like this, it's like only being exposed to a couple scenes and nothing more. So, there's never really much in the way of character development, just people doing things or responding to some action etc.
All that being said "Earth Angel" is a short story in the Aliens universe which takes place in the 50's. I sort of feel like the author was watching Back to the Future or Grease or something and was suddenly inspired to write a horror tale. Basically, two people witness a space ship crash and when they go to investigate it they find the pilot with a face hugger attached to them. This, naturally, kicks off the usual Alien tale.
After the two people find the space ship, they quickly bring the face huggered alien to a doctor... makes sense for 50's stuff. No one really says much about it being an alien, probably because there just aren't enough pages. Well, the author had to take some liberties with the gestation to full growth concept to fit this all into a small amount of pages, fine. However, their artistic representation just looked ridiculous really. I feel like they tried to follow in the footsteps of the Action figures and make the Alien look like the creature it was spawned from, but that was only kind of true for it's face. The body looked more like it was inspired by Violator from the Spawn comics. This kind of pulled me away from this even remotely being related to Aliens and seemed more like a generic monster attack tale.
The Alien creature finds its way to a biker bar and terrorizes some bikers. The strange part is that amidst all this, there are more Alien eggs and the Alien was taking the bikers to spawn more creatures. I don't think it was shown anywhere that this was a Queen Alien, so this story makes no real sense even within the Aliens universe. Like I said, it seems more like generic monster tale inspired by some Aliens stuff.
In the end... I didn't even really like it very much. Just seemed campy and not part of the actual universe. I don't mind the idea of Aliens showing up with a space crash in the 50's, but it would be nice if they were actually from Aliens...
September 19, 2024
Interesante enfrentamiento entre los Xenomorfos y unos desprevenidos humanos a fines del siglo XX. Algo que desde luego, contradice todo lo visto en las películas, pero que la próxima serie Alien Earth repetirá en breve.
Entretenido pero nada demasiado relevante, aparte del hecho de que tenemos una conexión un tanto forzada con los sucesos futuros de las películas.
Una curiosidad para completistas de la Saga Alien o para fans del Gran John Byrne.
Entretenido pero nada demasiado relevante, aparte del hecho de que tenemos una conexión un tanto forzada con los sucesos futuros de las películas.
Una curiosidad para completistas de la Saga Alien o para fans del Gran John Byrne.
May 18, 2024
I really enjoyed the old school graphics/illustrations in this comic by John Byrne.
I hadn't read it before which isn't usual for me, but I am currently reading all the aliens, predator and alien vs predator book & comics in (or as close to) chronological order.
This was a nice quick read, worth it.
I hadn't read it before which isn't usual for me, but I am currently reading all the aliens, predator and alien vs predator book & comics in (or as close to) chronological order.
This was a nice quick read, worth it.
February 18, 2023
¡Maravilloso! Es un cómic de estilo retro, homenaje al cine de ciencia ficción de serie B y ambientado en el universo de Alien, claro.
Ahora pensándolo, hasta el título puede ser un guiño a esa época (coincide con el título de una famosa canción de 1955 que aparece, por ejemplo en la primera y segunda parte de Regreso al futuro).
El final es muy curioso.
Ahora pensándolo, hasta el título puede ser un guiño a esa época (coincide con el título de una famosa canción de 1955 que aparece, por ejemplo en la primera y segunda parte de Regreso al futuro).
El final es muy curioso.
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January 12, 2021It was a great book
September 3, 2022
Love John Byrne and was excited to see his take on Alien universe. Was okay story, with it set in 1950s it causes some timeline issues... not to mention some name drops.
January 2, 2023
:roll eyes:
August 26, 2025
About as head empty of a what if as I want from these. Xenomorphs in 50’s America is such a stupid concept, it rules. This should have at least been a miniseries, way too rushed
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