Billie eventually found herself in a mental institution, her memories wiped but slowing resurfacing. In the intervening years Wilks (I almost wrote Hicks here) has become a tear-away, insubordinate and shunned by his fellow marines and command. However, when Alien 3 was released and those characters were killed, their comic counterparts were renamed Wilks and Billie and Steve Perry’s adaptation of the series was the first time this change was seen.Īliens: Earth Hive is set decades after Wilks and Billie survived an Alien infestation on the planet Rim. The original comic series originally focused on the characters of Corporal Dwayne Hicks and Rebecca “Newt” Jordan after the events of Aliens. Written by Steve Perry (a name that should be as synonymous to expanded universe fans as Randy Stradley) and originally published in 1992, Aliens: Earth Hive is an adaptation of the Dark Horse Comics Aliens Book/Series 1 released in 1989. And what follows is no less than guerrilla warfare on the aliens’ planet–and alien conquest on Earth!” When Wilks’s team departs on their mission, a trained assassin trails them. But the competition on Earth to develop the aliens as a new weapons system is brutal. Now the government has tapped Wilks to lead an expedition to the aliens’ home planet to bring back a live alien. Thirteen years later Wilks is in prison, and Billie lives in a mental institution, the nightmare memories of the massacre at Rim seared into her mind. Thrown together in the last hellish night of an alien invasion, Billie and Wilks helped each other get out alive. Billie was a child, the only survivor of a far-flung colony outpost.
“ Wilks was a space marine with a near-fatal flaw: he had a heart. I have opted to review each book in the Omnibus separately.
These three books contain the core trilogy that kicked off the entire Aliens expanded universe and shaped a lot of the stories to follow. The Complete Aliens Omnibus Volume 1 contains the first three books that were written: Earth Hive, Nightmare Asylum and The Female War. With Titan releasing all the old Bantam novelizations in volumes, it’s going to be really easy to get the complete collection in good condition.
I don’t believe they are all perfect stories but I do believe they are essential reads in understanding the Aliens series as it is now.
Like its comic counterpart, The Complete Aliens Omnibus Volume 1 is a book I believe anyone who has an interest in the older Aliens expanded universe should give a read.
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