Marvel Comics is relaunching Alien #1 in August 2022

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Marvel Comics’ Extraterrestrial comic based on Ridley Scott The directed movie and subsequent franchise get their twelfth issue in June, then an annual in July. What about Marvel’s August 2022 solicitations and solicitations? A brand new number one. Why? Well, not quite sure. Always written by Philip Kennedy Johnson, but substitute artist Salvador Larocca with Julius Ohta and apparently launching “a new alien epic”. And tells the story of a colony of synthetic people having their own colony away from the eyes of mankind. But maybe not aliens…

STRANGER #1
PHILLIP KENNEDY JOHNSON (F) • JULIUS OHTA (A) • Cover by BJÖRN BARENDS
Variant Cover by TRAVIS CHAREST • Variant Cover by CARLOS MAGNO
Variant cover by RYAN BROWN
PHILLIP KENNEDY JOHNSON AND JULIUS OHTA RELEASE NEW ALIEN EPIC!
THE MOST TERRIFYING MAN, MACHINE AND CREATURE IN THE UNIVERSE… IT’S AN EXPRESS ELEVATOR TO HELL, AND YOU WANT TO GET OVER! A small colony of synths has secretly settled on a swampy moon. When a company of United System soldiers asks them for help in retrieving biotechnology from a hostile planet that could be the key to saving humanity, the Synths must decide whether the prospect of peace between man and machine is worth the risk of betrayal.
32 PGS./Parental advice … $3.99

STRANGER #12
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(W) Phillip Kennedy Johnson (A) Salvador Larroca (CA) Marc Aspinall
THE END OF PARADISE!
• Jane and her people have been imprisoned with a group of facehuggers!
• Jane has one last chance to escape, but will her illness be her downfall?
PARENTAL ADVISORY In store: June 01, 2022 MSRP: $3.99

ANNUAL ALIEN #1
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(F) Philip Kennedy Johnson (A/CA) Salvador Larroca
• Years before Bloodlines, Weyland-Yutani’s head of security, Gabriel Cruz, was a businessman.
• His dedication to WY came first, whatever the cost.
• But when the company decides to conduct its first trial experiment with a Xenomorph, will Cruz stand idly by and let innocent soldiers die? PARENTAL ADVISORYIn Stores: Jul 20, 2022 MSRP: $4.99

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Lisa M. Horner