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ComicBook has the exclusive first look at Alien: Paradiso by Steve Foxe, Edgar Salazar, and Peter Nguyen. The blood flows quickly as a man runs alongside a pool that’s filling up with the blood of a deceased woman. The man makes it to the beach shores with a knife in his hand, but he’s quickly taken out by a Xenomorph on the next page in a bloody display.
Next, we see a group dropping onto Paradiso from outer space, though they might not be your regular vacationers. A description of Alien: Paradiso mentions that Colonial Marshals Dash Nanda and Lydia Reeves are sent there to bust a smuggling ring. It’s unclear of these are the marshals arriving on Paradiso, or if they’re the smugglers.
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The final page introduces something Alien fans have never seen in the franchise’s history: a point-of-view straight from a Xenomorph. These POV pages are illustrated by Peter Nguyen and will appear in each issue, allowing readers to see through the eyes of a Xenomorph as it hunts its targets.
“With Romulus taking the franchise back to its roots in many respects, I wanted to make sure we were offering readers a story they couldn’t find anywhere else,” Foxe said. “Setting our tale on the sun-kissed shores of a high-end beach resort populated by underhanded criminals, undercover marshals, and underpaid employees immediately spun us in a new direction.
“But as someone who considers Alien perhaps the most perfect film of all time, I hewed very close to the fundamentals of what I found so horrifying in the first place: a small group of people out of their depth, stalked by an unknowable threat in a contained location,” Foxe added. “Edgar, Peter, and I are working to bring you the Alien you know, love, and fear, but in a way you’ve never seen before. Pull up a beach chair and watch out for the acid splash.”
The exclusive first look at Alien: Paradiso #1 is below. The issue goes on sale December 11th.
