Another foray into the universe of the Xenomorph. Some of the stories are excellent, others are meh.

‘Sacrifice’ and ‘Salvation’ are the best parts of this book by far. Both of those stories are smaller scale, more personal stories with only a few (or one) Aliens.

Rogue by Ian Edginton and Will Simpson- ★★★A mad scientists uses both humans and xenomorphs in his experiments. Besides that it's your standard Aliens fare. Humans do stupid, selfish things. Aliens break loose and kill everyone.Sacrifice by Peter Milligan and Paul Johnson - ★★A priest crash lands on a planet and finds some other colonists along with something much more sinister. In typical Milligan fashion, he overwrites this. Like all of the early Vertigo books he wrote, he's in love with his o...

I've enjoyed reading these volumes. My boyfriend lends them to me veey happily, even though I end up holding onto them for months because my college courses limit my reading time severely. These volumes all collect continued stories involving some of the fiercest aliens in cinematic sci-fi horror, Xenomorphs. They're ugly, they're full of acidic blood, and they love to kill, in every form of their life cycle. These volumes never cease to be grotesquely awesome at showcasing the idiocy and pride

Really solid writing and art direction across the board here.

If all you have ever know about the Alien storyline is the movies then read this. There is so much more to discover about the killer alien species. Fantastic storyline and characters. Highly recommended

There are some great ideas and moments in Volumes 1 & 2 and a couple of great arcs, but it's here that things really escalate. Consistently great (until right near the end at least).

For anyone who has yet to encounter some aspect of the transmedia franchise that originated with Alien, the relatively low-budget Sigourney Weaver monster thriller directed by Ridley Scott and brilliantly designed by H.R. Giger, here’s a thumbnail synopsis. Alien stories are dominated by the Alien xenomorph’s fascinating biology, more or less modeled on that of social insects like bees or ants, the Alien is an apparently asexual exoskeletal creature that serves an egg-laying queen. Eggs hatch th...

Each volume out does the other in shock value and bring something new to the audience. Volume 3 is rediculous crazy. The whole franchise is super rapey but this one stands out on particular.

Horror, action and a good deal of ethical questions...There's quite a few stories in this book, but I'll pick a few favourites.Labyrinth and its introduction, while it doesn't have the best artwork, it's one of the most disturbing and interesting stories I've read about the aliens. Lot's of tiny tidbits of information on the creatures and how they work as well as interesting and engaging characters. Definitely a story I'd recommend!Salvation with its religious themes and madness is right up my a...

Zatím asi nejlepší vetřelčí omnibus, který jsem četl. Příběhy mají i tentokrát podobnou premisu: zlé korporace nebo šílení vědci se snaží vetřelce zneužít ke svým účelům, vybouchne jim to do ksichtu a mariňáci - a tentokrát dokonce i kněží - to musejí hasit, přesněji řečeno bojovat o vlastní přežití. Tři z příběhů svou vynalézavostí a originalitou scenáristickou i kresebnou vynikají nad ostatní (Oběť, Labyrint, Vykoupení), ostatní čtyři jsou z kategorie "neurazí ani nenadchne". Kvůli zmíněným tř...

Solid collection of Alien shorts. I love the universe and its partially the design of the alien itself that makes me attracted to the franchise so having a book full of its art is a good draw. I picked up volume 3 of the Omnibus series only because it features Mignola's Alien story which I'd had a tough time finding. The first story, Rogue, has very late 80s/early90s comic book art which, despite its horribleness, I love. It's a pretty stock Alien story - evil corporation exploiting the blue col...

I'm going to jump to my favorite, Labrynth. I read it as a novel, and the comic is just as good. I loved the mad scientist and the whole set up. I loved his backstory and seeing comic version just makes it clearer and more horrifying. Ok, so Rogue was another I read in novel form, this one the same. I do love seeing it in comic because the battle between aliens is better and cooler.Sacrifice is...blah, to me. It a good one but I'm not a very religious person so it hard to relate to the main char...

While there are some duds among the miniseries collected in this third omnibus, the average level of quality felt markedly higher than in Vol. 2.The highlights of this volume are Sacrifice and Salvation. Both featured exceptionally good artwork. Sacrifice involves a priest investigating how an isolated group of colonists manage to coexist with an alien lurking nearby. Salvation has a thinner plot, but gorgeous Mike Mignola artwork.The remaining stories are mostly decent, but there's a particular...

I enjoyed Salvation and Sacrifice. Reapers was also a quick, fun entry into the Alien universe. The rest for bad to ok. There's some good art here but most of the stories are the standard company exploits people to capture aliens/scientist goes rogue to get what he wants variety that so many Alien spinoffs have been when the authors don't have anything interesting to say. Too many of these also use the jelly drug idea introduced in earlier volumes that's always been stupid to me.

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After a pair of (to put it kindly) patchy first two volumes, they finally got there. Aliens Omnibus, Vol. 3 is (mostly) excellent and a pleasingly varied collection of seven stories about humans vs. Xenomorphs.'Rogue' is a strong opener. True, it's basic theme of over-confident humans using science and technology to try and tame or engineer the aliens for their own uses, and it all going predictably, bloodily tits-up has been much-explored. But it's done well here.Shorter, at just 50 pages, 'Sac...

Aliens was pretty much my first fandom. I saw the movie when I was a kid and was completely hooked. So it was inevitable that I eventually track down some of the Dark Horse omnibus editions, and equally inevitable that I start with the one that featured a story drawn by Mike Mignola.On the book as a whole, well, I didn't love it. There's some good stuff, and it's still Aliens, at the end of the day, but it goes some places that don't always interest me as much, and it dips more heavily into body...

Had this book ended at page 320, I would have given it a solid four stars. The art is consistently good in the first three quarters of the book, varying in style but consistent in high quality. The storytelling just gets better with each arc, up until the critically acclaimed story, "Salvation". They are true horror, and brilliantly executed. Unfortunately, the shorts and one offs that complete the last pages of the book contribute very little. Most are exposition heavy, cliche, or pretty much j...