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Aliens: Salvation (1993) #1
Selkirk, a God-fearing crewman aboard the space freighter Nova Maru, is forced at gunpoint to abandon ship with his captain. They crash-land on a small planet, but it is soon apparent that they have not entirely escaped the Nova Maru's dreadful cargo. Dave Gibbons' tale is fully realized by artists Mike Mignola and Kevin Nowlan.
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Published January 11, 2022
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Dave Gibbons
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Dave Gibbons is an English comic book artist, writer and sometime letterer. He is best known for his collaborations with writer Alan Moore, which include the miniseries Watchmen and the Superman story "For the Man Who Has Everything". He also was an artist for the UK anthology 2000 AD, for which he contributed a large body of work from its first issue in 1977.
Gibbons broke into British comics by working on horror and action titles for both DC Thomson and IPC. When the science-fiction anthology title 2000 AD was set up in the mid-1970s, Gibbons contributed artwork to the first issue, Prog 01 (February 1977), and went on to draw the first 24 installments of Harlem Heroes, one of the founding (and pre-Judge Dredd) strips. Mid-way through the comic's first year he began illustrating Dan Dare, a cherished project for Gibbons who had been a fan of the original series. Also working on early feature Ro-Busters, Gibbons became one of the most prolific of 2000 AD's earliest creators, contributing artwork to 108 of the first 131 Progs/issues. He returned to the pages of "the Galaxy's Greatest Comic" in the early 1980s to create Rogue Trooper with writer Gerry Finley-Day and produce an acclaimed early run on that feature, before handing it over to a succession of other artists. He also illustrated a handful of Tharg's Future Shocks shorts, primarily with author Alan Moore. Gibbons departed from 2000 AD briefly in the late 1970s/early 1980s to became the lead artist on Doctor Who Weekly/Monthly, for which magazine he drew the main comic strip from issue #1 until #69, missing only four issues during that time.
He is best known in the US for collaborating with Alan Moore on the 12-issue limited series Watchmen, now one of the best-selling graphic novels of all time, and the only one to feature on Time's "Top 100 Novels" list. From the start of the 1990s, Gibbons began to focus as much on writing and inking as on drawing, contributing to a number of different titles and issues from a variety of companies. Particular highlights included, in 1990, Gibbons writing the three-issue World's Finest miniseries for artist Steve Rude and DC, while drawing Give Me Liberty for writer Frank Miller and Dark Horse Comics. He penned the first Batman Vs. Predator crossover for artists Andy and Adam Kubert (Dec 1991 - Feb 1992), and inked Rick Veitch and Stephen R. Bissette for half of Alan Moore's 1963 Image Comics series.
Works other than comics include providing the background art for the 1994 computer game Beneath a Steel Sky and the cover to K, the 1996 debut album by psychedelic rock band Kula Shaker. In 2007, he served as a consultant on the film Watchmen, which was adapted from the book, and released in March 2009. 2009's Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars Director's Cut for the Nintendo DS and Wii platforms featured hand drawn art by Dave Gibbons.
There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name
Dave Gibbons is an English comic book artist, writer and sometime letterer. He is best known for his collaborations with writer Alan Moore, which include the miniseries Watchmen and the Superman story "For the Man Who Has Everything". He also was an artist for the UK anthology 2000 AD, for which he contributed a large body of work from its first issue in 1977.
Gibbons broke into British comics by working on horror and action titles for both DC Thomson and IPC. When the science-fiction anthology title 2000 AD was set up in the mid-1970s, Gibbons contributed artwork to the first issue, Prog 01 (February 1977), and went on to draw the first 24 installments of Harlem Heroes, one of the founding (and pre-Judge Dredd) strips. Mid-way through the comic's first year he began illustrating Dan Dare, a cherished project for Gibbons who had been a fan of the original series. Also working on early feature Ro-Busters, Gibbons became one of the most prolific of 2000 AD's earliest creators, contributing artwork to 108 of the first 131 Progs/issues. He returned to the pages of "the Galaxy's Greatest Comic" in the early 1980s to create Rogue Trooper with writer Gerry Finley-Day and produce an acclaimed early run on that feature, before handing it over to a succession of other artists. He also illustrated a handful of Tharg's Future Shocks shorts, primarily with author Alan Moore. Gibbons departed from 2000 AD briefly in the late 1970s/early 1980s to became the lead artist on Doctor Who Weekly/Monthly, for which magazine he drew the main comic strip from issue #1 until #69, missing only four issues during that time.
He is best known in the US for collaborating with Alan Moore on the 12-issue limited series Watchmen, now one of the best-selling graphic novels of all time, and the only one to feature on Time's "Top 100 Novels" list. From the start of the 1990s, Gibbons began to focus as much on writing and inking as on drawing, contributing to a number of different titles and issues from a variety of companies. Particular highlights included, in 1990, Gibbons writing the three-issue World's Finest miniseries for artist Steve Rude and DC, while drawing Give Me Liberty for writer Frank Miller and Dark Horse Comics. He penned the first Batman Vs. Predator crossover for artists Andy and Adam Kubert (Dec 1991 - Feb 1992), and inked Rick Veitch and Stephen R. Bissette for half of Alan Moore's 1963 Image Comics series.
Works other than comics include providing the background art for the 1994 computer game Beneath a Steel Sky and the cover to K, the 1996 debut album by psychedelic rock band Kula Shaker. In 2007, he served as a consultant on the film Watchmen, which was adapted from the book, and released in March 2009. 2009's Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars Director's Cut for the Nintendo DS and Wii platforms featured hand drawn art by Dave Gibbons.
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July 16, 2023
More in the 3.5 range.
After reading Aliens: Sacrifice I was a little worried about yet another religious themed book, because I have vague memories of these somewhat coming out around the same time. These were also repackaged together in a single volume. In any event, I'm happy to report that Salvation really has nothing to do with Sacrifice, nor does it even really feel similar in theme.
In Salvation we meet a crew member named Selkirk and he just happens to be very religious. He attributes much of his survival as being "provided for" by God or whatever. This only being a short square bound comic means that it needs to move very fast and it does. This is why Sacrifice was so weird, it felt slow for such a small page count. Salvation brings us onto the ship Nova Maru, a cargo hauler, that we later find out is transporting contraband. Three guesses what they were hauling... but give the series title... something is wrong with you if you can't figure it out in one. Anyway, there's a cargo malfunction and the Captain starts to freak out since he knows what they're hauling. He forces Selkirk, at gunpoint, to abandon ship with him and fly the escape pod to the nearby planet.
As we can all guess, this is clearly not the end of the story, because escaping a cargo breach in the Aliens universe to a nearby planet is not really the solution anyone ever thinks it is. So we spend a few pages with these two trying to survive on this planet with no food and little water. It's a dark story and it really solidifies how terrible of a person the captain actually is. Eventually that arc resolves and Selkirk is off to wander the planet. It's not very long before he runs into, guess what? That's right, Aliens. Once this portion of the comic hits it's extremely exciting and I found it to be really well written.
For a short and sweet Aliens adventure Gibbons manages to craft an exciting tale, which is often all I'm looking for when I'm diving into the world of Aliens. Gibbons throws in some standard fair concepts of "what would you do to survive?" kind of grey concepts, but we've come upon them so often in literature that it's almost expected. Anyway, if you didn't like Sacrifice and were worried the two were somehow in theme with each other, fear not. This winds up being an action packed adventure that most of us Aliens fans are looking for.
After reading Aliens: Sacrifice I was a little worried about yet another religious themed book, because I have vague memories of these somewhat coming out around the same time. These were also repackaged together in a single volume. In any event, I'm happy to report that Salvation really has nothing to do with Sacrifice, nor does it even really feel similar in theme.
In Salvation we meet a crew member named Selkirk and he just happens to be very religious. He attributes much of his survival as being "provided for" by God or whatever. This only being a short square bound comic means that it needs to move very fast and it does. This is why Sacrifice was so weird, it felt slow for such a small page count. Salvation brings us onto the ship Nova Maru, a cargo hauler, that we later find out is transporting contraband. Three guesses what they were hauling... but give the series title... something is wrong with you if you can't figure it out in one. Anyway, there's a cargo malfunction and the Captain starts to freak out since he knows what they're hauling. He forces Selkirk, at gunpoint, to abandon ship with him and fly the escape pod to the nearby planet.
As we can all guess, this is clearly not the end of the story, because escaping a cargo breach in the Aliens universe to a nearby planet is not really the solution anyone ever thinks it is. So we spend a few pages with these two trying to survive on this planet with no food and little water. It's a dark story and it really solidifies how terrible of a person the captain actually is. Eventually that arc resolves and Selkirk is off to wander the planet. It's not very long before he runs into, guess what? That's right, Aliens. Once this portion of the comic hits it's extremely exciting and I found it to be really well written.
For a short and sweet Aliens adventure Gibbons manages to craft an exciting tale, which is often all I'm looking for when I'm diving into the world of Aliens. Gibbons throws in some standard fair concepts of "what would you do to survive?" kind of grey concepts, but we've come upon them so often in literature that it's almost expected. Anyway, if you didn't like Sacrifice and were worried the two were somehow in theme with each other, fear not. This winds up being an action packed adventure that most of us Aliens fans are looking for.
August 26, 2024
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