More like 2,5 than full three stars... The second Aliens Omnibus proves that it is quite hard to create a good Alien story without strong leading characters. Sadly, the book is quite lacking in this department: most characters are hard to relate to, because they are either killed off before any real development can take place (such as the Colonial Marines in the major story of the same name), or their development proceeds in an unsatisfying way (such as Lt. Henry from the same story). The writer...

I've known of the Aliens comic's since the early 90's when I first started going to comic book store's but never actually read any of them, until now.Just by flipping through the pages I knew I was going to enjoy this one. And that I did.The Aliens Omnibus book's by Dark Horse are currently out of print and I obtained Vol 2 by chance. Which is why I didn't start with Vol 1. Thankfully the three collected stories in here, Genocide, Harvest, and Colonial Marinesseemed to be part of there own separ...

Aliens: Genocide by John Arcudi and Damon Willis - ★★★This is somewhat hokey at times. A corporation has made a new drug called Xeno-Zip. It's PCP with Xenomorph royal jelly mixed in. The military wants more of the drug for its soldiers but they are all out of royal jelly so it's off to the Xemomorph home world to collect some more. The first half of this is boring until they get to the home world. The art and coloring look dated too.Aliens: Harvest by Jerry Prosser and Kelley Jones - ★★★★A scie...

Really this should be one star. But the book got me thinking (indirectly) about some stuff from the Aliens universe and for that I will give this another star. The whole colonial marines section could have been so amazing (kinda like Alien 3, Alien Resurrection could have been), but instead we get these alien/human hybrids and a convoluted storyline. Art was okay but not great.What got me thinking was how the Aliens from the movie of the same name, got super lucky. Think about it, if the colonis...

Better than the first one, thanks to how there's no controversial changes this time, but since the included comics themselves are really, really bad, it doesn't make much difference. It's OK for collection, but reading this is a royal pain in the neck.

Collecting the plot arcs of 'Genocide', 'Harvest' and 'Colonial Marines' I'm sorry, but I found this to be a real slog to get through.Which is a pity, as these stories are (meant to be) a spin-off from still-the-best of the Aliens movie (i.e. the second, the one with an 'S' at the end).And those aliens themselves - described in the movies as 'the perfect killing machine' - are treated more as cannon fodder than anything else, with these three stories all concentrating on increasingly unlikeable

Ripley: How do we kill it Ash? There's gotta be a way of killing it. How? How do we do it?Ash: You can't.The old Dark Horse Alien comics unfortunately fail in more than one regard, the most offensive being the characterisation of the aliens themselves: they are mostly cannon fodder, seldom threatening or even dangerous and at their worst they barely matter to the stories.They appear, they get mowed down, sometimes the books remember that they have acid for blood and some character or other dies,...

I have always liked "Harvest". I think the art is superb and the story line was one of the more intersting of the early stand alone Aliens comics. "Colonial marines" was always a bit blah to me. I never liked any of the characters and the art kinda sucked. "Genocide" had its moments.

The Omnibus is made up of three stories - all about the Queen's Jelly and no that isn't a euphemism! First up is Genocide: A CEO is using Queen Jelly to make people super strong, super fast and in some cases super psycho! He decides he needs a sample and a producer, so gets the Colonial Marines to babysit him and his scientists on a mission - with the idea that his product could make some super soldiers! Of course it all goes belly up as the Aliens don't want to play nicely. The marines take los...

Proof that sometimes words are better than pictures.The second volume of the Aliens graphic novel series follows right along with the same printed stories that are collected in the second Complete Omnibus series published and collated by Titan Books. And believe me when I say that those stories are far superior than their comic adaptation (which is saying a lot since I didn’t even like the printed versions).None of the 3 illustrated adaptations are very good. Terrible artwork, coupled with terri...

I actually read this twice as I finished it once, forgot some of it and then read it again a little more slowly.Its an omnibus so there is no consistent approach within, different artists and writers bring different skills to the table and because it is not consistent it loses out a bit. I thought Kelly Jones' art was brilliant and unique and suited the alienness of the tale really well. The first time I read her story I was not sure, the second time I really appreciated it. The stories were dif...

Short version....Of the three stories here, the first two are decent. The third is awful. Truly awful.Long version....In 'Genocide' two Xenomorph tribes go to war and humans, looking for sources of the alien jelly-derived super-soldier drug marketed as Xeno Zip get involved in the sort of murky corporate shenanigans that are one of the strongest themes of the Alien films. It's a decent enough story but to see so many of the most terrifying creatures ever committed to film reduced to feeble canno...

The first 2 stories in this omnibus are quite good, however the last story Colonial Marines really almost ruins the whole book. The story is stupid, confusing and the writing is poor. Marines go here, fight aliens, barely escape them fly off to somewhere else and do the same thing over and over again. It’s really painful trying to finish it. Such a shame as the former 2 stories were much better...

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

This is...okay, I guess?There's a shift between Alien and Aliens that's obvious in the name. In Alien, a single alien was enough of a threat to wipe out everyone on the Nostromo, and admittedly the crew of the Nostromo weren't scientists or soldiers. That's the point of the first film--that a bunch of blue-collar spacers got into a situation way over their heads and almost all of them died, because space is indifferently hostile to human life. But in Aliens they brought in a whole squad of marin...

I've read Genocide and Havest in the novel forms, and I enjoyed them in their comic versions too. I liked that Genocide add the xeno-zip. It's completely logical that humans would try and make things from what was left of earth from the xenomorphs. Plus it gives a reason why humanity would seek out xenos, instead of coincidental plot point. Harvest comic was a bit more jarring, less clear like the novel was. I'd say the novel was better just cause it had those moments of explanation and reasonin...

A very fun read, despite "Harvest" sucking ass and looking weird. By introducing a new story arc, separate from the 1st volume, there's less tip toeing around things that had to be retconned because of the movies. "Genocide" showed us a side of xenomorph behavior that we hadn't seen before and "Colonial Marines" giving the reader more perspective from...Colonial Marines. There's no other way to put it, even if the lot we're thrown in with is a bunch of delinquents of the lowest bidder.Now, there...

Noticeable dip in artwork and storytelling quality with this omnibus. The over-long “Colonial Marines” saga is the worst offender, and particularly incoherent. Hope things pick up in the third omnibus.

The latest, and worst, of many novels written about this xenomorph. Losing its' appeal? The novel is broken into two stories about the "pharma" is its' pursuit of "royal jelly". There is an interesting recurring "buzz" phrases in the novel. There is always turbulence when ever the drop ship enter the atmosphere. WTH! Alien harvest, the second book, was lame, really lame. Enjoy if you must but let,s get back to Ripley and Hicks, adventures. Later, Keep Reading.