ALIENS ORIGINAL COMICS SERIES HC #2
(W) Mark Verheiden (A) Denis Beauvais (CA) Denis Beauvais
Long before Alien3 was even a glint in director DAVID FINCHer's eye, Dark Horse Comics was already crafting a terrifying post-Aliens continuity for Ripley, Hicks, and Newt. These are the original stories that took the comics market by storm in a prestige collection of the unabridged and unadulterated series. Collects Aliens: Nightmare Asylum #1-#4 and Aliens: Female War #1-#4.
X-MEN MILESTONES TP MESSIAH COMPLEX
(W) Ed Brubaker (A) Marc Silvestri (CA) DAVID FINCH
The biggest and best adventures of Marvel's mighty mutants - these are the X-Men Milestones! With no more mutants being born, the future of Homo superior has never looked bleaker. At the seeming end of their evolutionary cycle, a miracle arrives - in the form of the first child born with the X-gene since the tragic events of M-Day! But this sudden source of hope spawns a bloody, violent and tragic conflict for control over the baby girl's fate. It is a battle in which every mutant on the planet has a stake. The fight is on! Messiah Complex mines the rich tapestry of X-Men history for a dizzying thrill ride of suspense that sets a new course for the future of mutantkind! Collecting X-MEN: MESSIAH COMPLEX, UNCANNY X-MEN (1981) #492-494, X-MEN (1991) #205-207, NEW X-MEN (2004) #44-46 and X-FACTOR (2005) #25-27. Rated T+