Aliens vs. Avengers (2024-2025) #3

Aliens vs. Avengers (2024)

by Jonathan Hickman, Esad Ribić (cover_art)

THE ENGINEERS GO TO WAR! But in a world of cosmic heroes and genetic mutants, the Engineers are not the only gods of creation. As the Engineers set out to destroy what they made, humanity's remaining heroes discover an even more pressing the X-Men.

Genres: Marvel, Horror, Science Fiction, Comics, Superheroes, Comic Book, Aliens

35 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 19, 2025

About the author

Jonathan Hickman is an American comic book writer and artist. He is known for creating the Image Comics series The Nightly News, The Manhattan Projects and East of West, as well as working on Marvel Comics' Fantastic Four, FF, and S.H.I.E.L.D. titles. In 2012, Hickman ended his run on the Fantastic Four titles to write The Avengers and The New Avengers, as part the "Marvel NOW!" relaunch. In 2013, Hickman wrote a six-part miniseries, Infinity, plus Avengers tie-ins for Marvel Comics. In 2015, he wrote the crossover event Secret Wars. - Wikipedia

Reviews

[Colin Post · Rating 4 out of 5]

Hickman and Ribic totally nailed the feel of an Aliens film - eerie and desolate wastelands punctuated by frightening encounters with xenomorphs. The Avengers just happen to be transplanted in this sorry future.

[James DeSantis · Rating 5 out of 5]

Damn, the death in here was def sad. Fucking Sinister that cocksucking motherfucking bitch ass. Love this series.

[Neil · Rating 2 out of 5]

Wakanda has arrived! Famous last words, hahahah!

This issue. The artwork is still solid, showing what some of our heroes might look like in "the distant future" (although Miles still looks as young as ever in relation to Carol and Tony). It continues its downward trend of sucking the joy out of seeing the heroes succeed and "save the day" (realizing that realistically they can not and do not "always save the day").

It was so bizarre. The "Sinister-clones" boarding the colony ship and shooting face-huggers at the humans was just surreal because of how corny it looked. I had forgotten how shocking it was the first time I read it, and this second time around it really ruins the momentum of the series. It is a bizarre moment. Not only that, but the way the Sinisters are drawn, I kept seeing the Joker shooting the guns instead of a bunch of Sinister clones. It was poorly done and took me out of the story.

Tony dying sucked. The mutants being turned into hosts for the xenomorphs sucked. There being so few mutant survivors sucked. Which is also very weird. The mutants left Earth specifically because of the infestation. We are to believe that they would not have created some kind of detection devices and countermeasures to ensure the xenomorphs did not gain a foothold on the Red planet? I did not believe that would be the case at all, and nothing in the story convinces me that such an event could have taken place. I don't really care if "but it's Sinister!" is used as the reason/justification/excuse. It does not work for me in this story because of what happened before. Still, though - it was sad to read how the Mars spaceport had once been quite active and was now essentially abandoned and empty.

We get more of "the past" because the Engineers "get involved". I cannot decide if that is supposed to be the Engineers of "this universe" or the universe the David-8s originally came from. We are not given enough information (in my opinion) to know from which universe these Engineers hail. It is because of this that I think some more info would have been good regarding the Engineers in light of the prior two issues and what was previously revealed.

I feel like there are gaps in the story (and not just the gap involving the amount of time it would take to travel from the Earth to Mars depending on where the planets were in conjunction to each other, their orbits, and the Sun), that we should have been given "more information" (at the risk of bloating the story in some respects and making each issue more expensive). What happened, exactly, on takeoff that damaged the ship like it did that prevented it from being able to travel like it was designed to travel through the stars? The ship took off well before the xenomorphs could have reached it. I suppose one could claim "Murphy's Law at work!" except that that would seem like a copout. We are expected to take it on "blind faith" that the ship was somehow damaged on takeoff and could not function like it was designed. Which seems like a BS reason to make the ship land on Mars and then we find out that gasp! Oh, no! the mutants have been adversely impacted and turned into host bodies for these wicked parasites. It was just frustrating to read this second time around because it felt like it was dredging up the stupidity of some of the old Dark Horse stories when "channeling those old ghosts" did not need to happen.

I was left somewhere between a giant, underwhelmed meh and frustrated after reading this issue (a weird mix of emotions, to be sure, hahahah!). Two stars for me.

[RubiGiráldez RubiGiráldez · Rating 4 out of 5]

La verdad es que el que una trama de ALIENS se entrecruce y encuentre sentido en el Universo Marvel por la parte del supervillano genetista Mr. Sinestro es algo que FRUSTRA que se descubra en el meridiano de la propuesta... Como siempre, los mutantes se convierten en la fuerza esencial para salvar el panorama más terriblemente post apocalíptico por muy mermadas que sean sus filas.

Hickman y Ribic siguen sin temer dar relevancia a la reciente parcela del Universo Alien de la truncada nueva duología de Ridley Scott y los Ingenieros se convierten en un azote existencial para los restos del Universo Marvel (sí, algo que retrotrae inevitablemente a SECRET WARS y los Beyonders).

[Wasim Mahmud · Rating 4 out of 5]

গত পর্বে বিশাল বিপদের মাঝে স্টার্ক, ক্যারল ও মাইলস মোরালস পৃথিবী ত্যাগ করতে বাধ্য হন। জেনোমর্ফ কিংবা এলিয়েনদের ভয়াল থাবায় শেষ হয়ে গেছে প্রায় সব আশা। এদিকে মিস্টার সিনিস্টারের এলিয়েনদের ব্যবহার করে বিবর্তনের পরবর্তি পর্যায়ে যাওয়াটা মহাবিপদ ডেকে আনছে বাকিদের জন্য। বৃদ্ধ স্টার্ক, মোরালস ও ক্যারল মঙ্গলগ্রহে জড়িয়ে পড়েন এক শেষ যুদ্ধে।

হিকম্যান ছমছমে অনুভুতির অপ্রত্যাশিত এক সিরিজ যেমন লিখছেন ঠিক তেমনি এসাদ রিবিকের আর্ট দারুণ সাপোর্ট করছে হিকম্যানের লেখনিকে। মিস্টার সিনিস্টারের আগমন গল্পপ্রবাহকে আরো ইন্ট্যারেস্টিং করে তুলেছে। সেই সাথে সাহায্যের হাত বাড়িয়ে দিচ্ছে আরো কিছু শক্তি।

[N A.R Harris · Rating 2 out of 5]

The promising start of this series sadly hit it's peak too early. with the story stretching far beyond just an Alien / Avenger clash, it stretches far into anything it can for what I can only describe as a "viral moment"; doing so makes it severely lack any impact. this review is written after finishing all issues and waiting on it for some months.

[Adriano Barone · Rating 5 out of 5]

You would think that this story would read like one of the most forced things you run into. But then, Hickman writes this. Damn, the man's good. Ribic stellar art "helps", so to speak. It's a great comic, period.

[ComicBookCult Luke · Rating 5 out of 5]

Heroes Vs the ultimate killing machine. A brutal and apocalyptic tale of the last remaining avengers facing off against an awful foe, full of epic moments, loss and sacrifice. This series continues to fire on all cylinders. Hickman is a hell of a writer and Esad Ribic is an unbelievable artist.

[Andy Waldron · Rating 5 out of 5]

misters sinister are such a delight. hickman you cheeky bastard

[alejandro galvez · Rating 4 out of 5]

Its still decent.

It had some goody moments with Sinister that took me out of the story, but its still a strong series. I look forward to its final conclusion next issue.

[Wm · Rating 3 out of 5]

Mister Sinister is such a lame villain to write into such a significant part.

[Richard A · Rating 5 out of 5]

This series should be made into a movie. It is so powerful and the plot is quite creative. I am looking forward to the climax in May!!

[BrokenMnemonic · Rating 3 out of 5]

I was enjoying this in a very bleak way up until my immersion was broken by the guns that shoot facehuggers at people.

[William Pajeski · Rating 5 out of 5]

Poor Tony, WAKANDA FOREVER!!!! This series needs to be longer

[Jason · Rating 4 out of 5]

4.75

[David Dalton · Rating 5 out of 5]

Love this series! Sci-fi, horror, and super-heroes!