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Hello, and welcome to First Issues Now, the weekly show
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posted daily ish about only the newest Verse issues released
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by insert common company. Here this week, I'll be looking
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at the comics released for the week of November fifth,
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twenty twenty five. I don't think I've actually covered any
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of the Alien Versus line of books yet. I did
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Predator Versus a couple months back, but I'm slightly more
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interested in how writers would handle Aliens, since you can
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argue that Predators are not that different from other baddies
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in the Marvel universe. Granted, Marvel does have the Brood,
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but that's an exce ment thing. However, now I'm already
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upset there we won't see a Brood's you know, morph
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hybrid in this one day still sounds cool, So let's
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just read Alien Versus Captain America Number one, written by
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Frank Thierry, Art art by Stefano Rafaeli, colors by Karaj Manan,
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with letters by Clayton Cowells. The Red Skulls newest recruits.
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It's World War two and Hydra six a new weapon
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to defeat the Allies and win the war. To that end,
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the Red Skull has sent Baron Strucker on an expedition
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to the Himalayas to find the fabled city of Atalan,
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But instead of finding the inhumans, Struck her uncovers something
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much more deadly, much more alien. Can Captain America and
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the Hewland Commandos stop the Skull and his newfound xenomorph weapons,
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or will the first Avenger learn that in War Turn Europe,
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no one can hear you scream? That is actually probably
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the best and most concise solicit I've read for his
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story in a long time. That's exactly what happens in
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this first issue. I mean, granted, we do actually have
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like three separate times we see face huggers have a
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group lesson in non consensual play, so there's a hell
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of a lot. And then at the end, when the
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Helend Commandos finally meet up with Captain America and Bucky,
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it's in a town that has the entire populace of
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said town having been chess Bursted. It's pretty intense, and
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I think it works amazingly well for this though. Naw. Firstly,
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I believe that the naming convention here is wrong. With
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that many xunimorphs running around, plus a queen on site
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and everything like that. This is a survival action story
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and therefore should be called Aliens with an S versus
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Captain America, not Alien. Alien is when it's won maybe
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two monsters and the name of the game is terror
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and survival horror, whereas Aliens is when you go for
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the swarm shooting survival action. Of course, we all know
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that that's because Corporate went but the IP is Alien. Okay,
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but not really the point. I mean, yeah, this is more.
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I mean, this is definitely going to be more masses
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of Zeno's about to descend on Cap, Bucky and the Normies,
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and it is shaping up to be a pretty epic. Yes,
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we know the Cap isn't going to be face hugged.
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The book has never tried to make you afraid for
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Cap in that sense. Now the Helen Commandos, however, yeah,
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probably going to be at least one makeout with a
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double mouth. Also, I absolutely want to say I love
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the art on this. If feels very natural for the
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Alien franchise, as well as a pretty great feel for
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World War two. Eric Happ It's a great thing to
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be able to make me nostalgic for the Dark Horse comics. Yes,
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I should end this with saying that I absolutely read
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the Alien comic books in the nineties before I ever
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actually saw any of the movies. I know that's a
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weird take to have, but the franchise was huge when
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I was born, right. So my verdict now, I may
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piss off some people who disliked my take on Predator,
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but my verdict for Alien versus Captain America is collect it.
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Collect it means that yes, it should absolutely be added
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to your pull list, both digitally and physically. But of
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course we always side with physical here because it helps
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out shops, and when it comes to collect it, that
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means you should totally have all of the varying covers personally,
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though if you only need one cover, that Dan Panosian cover,
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the Foil one especially is metal as fuck. But maybe
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I'm wrong. Let me know what you're thought on. This
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on Twitter at First Issues Now, or even on Blue
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Sky at AJAC does It All. Don't forget to like
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