Marvel Comics Announces ALIEN: BLACK, WHITE & BLOOD Limited Series
Marvel Comics is jumping into the Alien sandbox and telling a new story in a limited series titled Alien: Black, White & Blood. This is going to be a four-issue anthology series and the first issue marks the beginning of “Utopia,” and it launches a “generations-spanning saga that will be told across all four issues.”
The comic features writers Collin Kelly, Jackson Lanzing, Ryan Cady, and Stephanie Phillips with artists Michael Dowling, Devmalya Pramanik, and Marcelo Ferreira.
Previous BLACK, WHITE & RED installments “have spotlighted deadly icons, from Wolverine to Darth Vader. Now, it’s time for the Xenomorphs to be unleashed in this epic format! Marvel Comics and 20th Century Studios present this kill-fest of an anthology in chest-rending artistic detail, brought to life in bold, black, white, red — and, when things get extra dangerous — GREEN!”
In the series, “Soaring through space to find a perfect world, a society descends into darkness as they’re shaped by their fear of the Xenomorphs!” It also will “explore the limits of compassion in ‘Maternal Instincts.’”
On a deep space vessel, “a small child is the sole survivor of a Xenomorph slaughter and her only hope for salvation is the ship’s comforting and guiding AI computer unit.”
The Alien anthology’s debut issue teams Phillips and Ferreira for “The Hunt.” In this story, “Xenomorphs become the main attraction when Weyland-Yutani gives wealthy thrill-seekers a chance to hunt down the galaxy’s deadliest species.” Marvel promises a “tale of guts, glory and the most exhilarating of games.”
Alien: Black, White & Blood #1 goes on sale February 7, 2024 from Marvel Comics and 20th Century Studios.
