After quite a few years in the doldrums, the Alien franchise is enjoying a full resurgence. The recent Alien: Romulus made a significant box office splash and Noah Hawley's new TV show Alien: Earth will be (chest) bursting onto our screens in 2025. Now Marvel has announced its latest Alien comic – a five-issue limited series that relocates the action to an unusual location: a luxury resort.
Alien: Paradiso is written by Steve Foxe with art from Edgar Salazar and Peter Nguyen. Although the series' human characters are on holiday, Marvel's press release for the book suggests that they're "far from innocent, and as the Xenomorph bathes this picturesque landscape in blood and carnage, the familiar corruption, greed, and horror that comes with the territory of Alien storytelling rears its ugly head!" Marvel also says that each issue will include pages drawn by Peter Nguyen told from the alien's point of view, something that the films occasionally flirted with, in Alien 3 and Alien: Covenant . "With Romulus taking the franchise back to its roots in many respects, I wanted to make sure we were offering readers a story they couldn't find anywhere else," Foxe said in a statement about the new book.
"Setting our tale on the sun-kissed shores of a high-end beach resort populated by underhanded criminals, undercover marshals, and underpaid employees immediately spun us in a new direction." He went on to add, "As someone who considers Alien perhaps the most perfect film of all time, I h.