William Gibson's Alien 3 #3

William Gibson's Alien 3 Comic Adaptation #3

by William Gibson, Johnnie Christmas, Tamra Bonvillain

This is the official adaptation of the original screenplay for Alien 3, written by William Gibson, the award-winning science fiction author of the cyberpunk cult classic Neuromancer. You'll see familiar characters and places--but not all is the same in this horrifying Cold War thriller! The crew of the Rodina quickly find themselves in a dire situation as the U.P.P. side have an unwelcome guest aboard their ship. Meanwhile, the powers that be on the Sulaco look to replace the crew with the recently recovered android, Bishop. As they push the limits of ethics and morality, the crew decide something must be done.

Genres: Comics, Science Fiction, Horror, Graphic Novels, Media Tie In

26 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 9, 2019

About the author

Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name. See this thread for more information.

William Ford Gibson is an American-Canadian writer who has been called the father of the cyberpunk subgenre of science fiction, having coined the term cyberspace in 1982 and popularized it in his first novel, Neuromancer (1984), which has sold more than 6.5 million copies worldwide.

While his early writing took the form of short stories, Gibson has since written nine critically acclaimed novels (one in collaboration), contributed articles to several major publications, and has collaborated extensively with performance artists, filmmakers and musicians. His thought has been cited as an influence on science fiction authors, academia, cyberculture, and technology.


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Reviews

[Fila Trece (Liantener) · Rating 3 out of 5]

Voy a hacer una reseña de los 5 números juntos, pues es más sencillo:
Adaptación del guión que entregó el famoso escritor de Ciencia Ficción William Gibson, para una tercera parte de la franquicia de Alien.
Me gustó el giro que le da a la biología de los alien. El dibujo es muy bueno cuando está dibujando a los monstruos o cosas, pero es terrible cuando se trata de humanos. Es difícil distinguir entre ellos. Y como son los humanos el punto de referencia para saber si estamos en un lugar u otro, me confundí bastante para saber cuándo cambiábamos de ambiente.
Demasiados personajes como para desarrollarlos o preocuparse por alguno de ellos en particular, con excepción de los que ya vienen de la película anterior.
Entiendo que no se produjera. Mi punto de vista es porque tres tercios de la película es política y ver cómo los humanos se enteran de lo que nosotros ya aprendimos en las 2 primeras películas. Es hasta el último tercio que aparecen nuestros héroes y los alien y las cosas se mueven. Tristemente, esto también hace que el último número se sienta sumamente apurado. De igual manera, recicla ideas del final de "Aliens" para hacer el final de esta historia.
Interesante como un "what if" histórico, pero nada más.

[Mega · Rating 3 out of 5]

Oh gee, an issue of a comic where a character(s) gets attacked by some kind of extraterrestrial life form, and shenanigans ensue. Never seen that done before.

Also, finally, it's about time that the xenomorphs started to slice some bitches up! See, when it comes to comics like this, you can usually tell how good they are by referring to the exposition-to-xenomorph scale, meaning how long it takes for the aliens to actually attack. I was afraid this comic was gonna be bad due to the constant blabbing, but thankfully, that is not the case!

Issue #3

[Matt · Rating 5 out of 5]

Pacing is interesting... just when I'm thinking that this board room meeting is going on too long, action breaks out! ... Finished the Dust to Dust series right before this, interesting contrast.

[Jonathan Roberts · Rating 2 out of 5]

Literally nothing happened in this issue. Wished I had waited for the trade so I could just get the whole thing at once. I am sure this is just a blip in an overall great story

[Michele · Rating 3 out of 5]

[04/05/20] 6/10