That’s my first annoyance with some of the plot advancement decisions in this story. For example, upon arrival at the decimated colony, Lela immediately activates the MU-TH-UR 7000 (aka Mother) mainframe hologram that the marines and the Hadley’s Hope colonists failed to make use of in Aliens or the audio drama, Alien: River of Pain. Revisiting an established story gives the writer a chance to ‘reveal’ things that previous characters didn’t find before. ![]() Weyland-Yutani is forever out to catch themselves a Xenomorph for nefarious purposes, of which we are reminded when Cutter mentions the name Carter Burke - a character whom I have only recently come to sort-of-forgive Paul Reiser for portraying. Together, they are Renegade XM, broadcasting their extremist media to the people and somehow believing that Weyland-Yutani has no idea what they are up to. There’s the implication that Lela once had a deeper connection with Cutter, but his desire to unearth the secrets Weyland-Yutani has kept from him drives him and the group’s goals, even into dangerous situations. We don’t get to learn much about them or their relationship to each other, save for Cutter and how each reacts to him, at least on a superficial level. This Drake and Vasquez are accompanied by Woody Ballesteros and Lela Rosewood. Cutter has further beef with Weyland-Yutani corporation because he is certain that the life support system on the colony transport ship he and his parents were on was purposely unplugged by the despicable company as a cost-saving measure. But Cutter knows nothing about this because all the details of that mission - and everything about Hadley’s Hope - has been scrubbed from the records. Here, we don’t get much time to learn if Drake has any relation to the marine from the past, but Cutter Vasquez is the nephew of Jenette Vasquez, the woman who sacrificed herself, along with Lieutenant Gorman, to give their companions a chance and to avoid being impregnated by the Xenomorphs. In the 1986 Aliens film, Drake and Vasquez were a part of the team of colonial marines sent in to discover what happened to the colony on LV-426. ![]() There are two familiar names in this story: Drake and Vasquez. Aliens: Aftermath #1 Ariana Maher (letterer), Phil Noto (cover artist), Benjamin Percy (writer), Christopher Sotomayor (colourist), David Wachter (artist) Thirty-five years into the aftermath of that event and the erasure of its colony, Hadley’s Hope, a team of investigative journalists is going to make a very frightening discovery. ![]() Ellen Ripley and company may have escaped the planet LV-426, nuking it from above and leaving it in a nuclear winter, but that method of destruction wasn’t as sure as they hoped it would be. What makes the Xenomorph species 426 so deadly is its constant state of evolution and adaptability.
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