Alien 3

by Steven Grant

Issues #1-3

Genres: Comics

60 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1992

About the author

Steven Grant is an American comic book writer best known for his 1985–1986 Marvel Comics mini-series The Punisher with artist Mike Zeck and for his creator-owned character Whisper.
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Reviews

[Alexander Peterhans · Rating 2 out of 5]

I'm not averse to Alien 3 - the recut version especially makes a lot more sense (this book is adapted from the Fincher-hated original), and if there's one thing that's important to Alien movies, it's atmosphere, and nobody does atmosphere like David Fincher.

The comic has zero atmosphere. The art is bad. Combined with superhero comic book-y colouring - much too bright - it just looks flat and uninteresting.

Alien 3 was always a hard one to adapt. Everyone has shaved heads, and in the comic they are completely interchangeable (except for Ripley and Dillon, and that's mostly because he's Black). The alien has strange proportions, it's part of its otherness, but here those proportions are even more out of whack, and the xenomorph just looks cartoony.

For completionists only.

(This is a review of the Marvel reprint of the mini-series)

[Isa · Rating 1 out of 5]

The artwork was absolutely hideous, it's like the artist has never seen a human.

[Ill D · Rating 2 out of 5]

So, just for the record my review (star rating) ha(s/d) less to do with the comic itself rather than the story it's (prefaced) built upon.

To those of you d(o/id)n't know, I really (and I mean REALLY) hate(d) Alien 3. I hated the setting. I hated what they did with Ripley (quite possibly one of the best female leads of all time). And I just hated the plot. Everything in the movie sat about as well together as a Quarter-Pounder w/Cheese with a person on an Atkins Diet.

And unsurprisingly, the comic isn't much better.

Which, in all fairness is a result of the plot so, I can't hold it against the author/illustrator(s)/colorer(s)/etc... They did (I generously think) the best they could with the material provided, so my vitriol is saved entirety for the original screenwriter(s).

Sooo, just like the movie, Ripley (Post-Aliens - and that's Alien 2 for anyone who didn't know to begin with) lands on another planet. She's taken into a prison populated with Double-Y Chromosome criminals and the (crappy) story takes off. Alien this. Alien that. Yadda, yadda, yadda.

So in conclusion just like the last one I reviewed, make better use of it than as a comic book. Kindling would be best of you have a fireplace. If not, toilet paper would suffice.

Two thumbs down.

[Mega · Rating 3 out of 5]

(This is for Issue #3, since I can't find it separately on this website)

Well, glad to see that everything wrapped up about as well as it did in the film, and on top of that, since this is a comic book, we don't have to deal with terrible effects for Ripley's death!...... we just have to deal with bad art, but hey, I'll take that over the former. Also, they really emphasize how much Ripley wants to end her life to get rid of the queen, don't they? But hey, I don't blame her. If I was stuck in Alien 3, I'd wanna die too.

Issue #3

[Andrew · Rating 3 out of 5]

Alien 3 is a truly underrated movie but this adaptation doesn't do much to convince the detractors.

The artwork truly makes the men indecipherable. They all look the same.

The story has a few little additions which serve to speculate on plot points we wouldn't full understand before the Assembly cut.

Glad I read it for comparisons sake.