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A day on Something Awful is like a day on the farm. Every thread a banquet! Every post a fortune! I love the forum!
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The Pulse Rifles props were built on Thompson submachine guns. The under-barrel grenade launchers were Remington 870 shotguns with SPAS-12 parts added on. The original props were brown, but set lighting made them look green. The green color was later adopted as the official color
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Mar 4, 2019 02:17
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Blazing Ownager posted:DC is in the gutter for making poo poo movies This was preceded by Superman vs Aliens. Superman learns of a possible surviving colony of Kryptonians and goes into space to investigate. He finds the colony near deserted, save for one survivor, and fully infested with xenomorphs. Away from a yellow sun, Superman slowly loses his powers and must find a way to escape. It literally ends with Superman flexing a chestburster inside of him to death and barfing it out.  It also had a sequel where Darkseid finds a ship full of eggs and uses them in a plot against the New Gods.  Darkseid gives zero fucks. Mutant Headcrab fucked around with this message at 20:51 on Mar 4, 2019 |
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Mar 4, 2019 20:45
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Speaking of Alien 3, Dark Horse is putting out an adaptation of William Gibson's script for Alien 3. It's a mix of Alien and a cold war thriller, as there's back-and-forth politicking between the corporation and space communists over the fate of the Sulaco and her survivors. Both sides try to clone aliens from tissue samples, both to horrific results
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Mar 5, 2019 20:54
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SilvergunSuperman posted:Is there a comic book adaptation of the movie Aliens? Aliens: Newt's Tale is the closest I can think of. It's a two-part comic entirely from Newt's perspective. Part 1 is all prequel events depicting the colony's downfall. Part 2 is the events of the movie.
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Mar 5, 2019 21:33
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Donovan Trip posted:I don't think it's called Newts tale anymore as it conflicted with Alien 3, they renamed characters in it and rereleased it as (I believe) as an anthology called alien 1-6. No, no. Those were the original run of "sequel" comics. They were rebranded several times after Alien 3, but Newt's Tale was never changed since it all takes place before and during the film. Outbreak, Nightmare Asylum, and Female War were the rebranded story arcs. Really, the only thing they changed was added color to the black/white issues and renamed problem characters (Hicks to Wilkes and Newt to Billie). Definitely reccomend Nightmare Asylum the art and coloring is beautiful. 
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Mar 5, 2019 23:51
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A Strange Aeon posted:Are all the comics Dark Horse and are they compiled somewhere? Yes and yes. Dark Horse released multi-volume compilations of all their Aliens comics a while back. They shouldn't be too hard to find.
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Mar 10, 2019 18:20
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No, the Queen is the new princess.
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Mar 28, 2019 03:56
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Floodixor posted:
The suit was referred to as MAX if I recall. They used it in one of my favorite comics as a kid, Aliens: Berserker. The plot was about a group of convict troops who earn time off sentence by clearing Xeno nests. Their modus operandi was for one guy with a facehugger-proof helmet get nabbed and taken to the hive. They then lock onto his tracker signal and set their MAX unit loose in that general direction. The rest of the troops come in for clean up and recovering MAX and the bait. It had some cool as poo poo cover art too! 
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Apr 19, 2019 15:59
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So I read the Dark Horse adaptation of Gibson's Alien 3 and also skimmed through the script. I feel like I missed something, but is there ever a reaon given how an egg ended up in Bishop's hibernation pod?
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Apr 25, 2019 04:25
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Picked up that Alien RPG that came out relatively recently. Seems fun. People who wrote it are super fans. It regularly references and name drops things outside the films, from the Dark Horse comics to the Kenner toy line. I like these Aliens.
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Feb 19, 2020 00:03
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Xenomrph posted:You can thank one guy for that, Andrew Gaska - I’ve actually been picking his brain on Facebook and there’s a lot of crazy references to stuff. I found most of those references, but which one is the AvP reference? One of the planets?
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Feb 19, 2020 01:28
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Keltar posted:You know there was a pretty drat good Aliens game on the DS called Aliens Infestation. You played as the marines, you had four or five, one die? He dead fool, then you use one of the others. There were others you could find and get to join you as well. Used to own it. Rad as hell. Had a Space Jockey hybrid boss in there with a big ol' doofy elephant schnozz. Flamethrower was OP though; it absolutely tears through everything.
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Mar 4, 2020 23:39
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Splicer posted:I was being completely sincere. Also I think everyone is a little crazy right now. You are suffering from a schizoid embellism which has you trapped in implanted memories. A paranoid episode triggered by acute neuro-chemical trauma.
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Apr 7, 2020 18:15
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The DC is cool, but the Theatrical version is an overall better experience.
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May 8, 2020 18:55
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Owlbear Camus posted:If anyone is into 3d printing check this out: Colony Android looks like Mads Mikkelsen and it owns.
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Oct 14, 2020 20:52
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My definitive cut would likewise omit the pre-infestation colony stuff. I would also cut the brief bit where Hudson, of all people, speculates about a queen. All the other Special Edition stuff is good.
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Dec 26, 2020 16:52
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zenguitarman posted:Thought of Aliens when I saw a dumb facebook meme: Bishop being the only human actor would be hilarious. Just the irony that the only non-muppet in the movie is an artificial person.
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Jan 5, 2021 21:57
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Re: Alien Covenenat. Its a good Prometheus sequel with an awful last stretch. If they skipped the second xeno altogether and just cut straight to the David reveal, that'd have been a fine movie. I liked the David and Walter interactions. They were my favorite part of the movie.
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Mar 3, 2021 04:25
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Ripley, it doesn't have bad dreams because it's a donut.
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Mar 11, 2021 21:25
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Xenomrph posted:Whenever he says *anything* you say "donut", Brett. You know that? Donut.
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Mar 14, 2021 21:19
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Xenomrph posted:Mondo Heat and Mondo Pest are a good time. Mondo Pest is one of my favorite Aliens comics of all time. It managed to combine big, dumb action/comedy without undercutting the Aliens horror too badly. It's the kind of comic book that Alien Resurrection tries to emulate, but fails. Also an alien bite's off the protagonists hand and he just straps a big rear end knife on the stump. 
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Mar 20, 2021 00:19
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I just read issue #1 of Marvel's Alien. This comic loving sucks. The plot is fine, but the art is so loving atrocious. Every thing is loving ugly, from the people, to the tech, the backgrounds, to the aliens... At least when the aliens are drawn. There's a big two page splash (which features the previously discussed giger art lady and nearly all the Aliens are traced from other art, stills, and literal action figures. I even held up my own NECA Big Chap just to make sure I wasn't going crazy. There's also this loving awful scene of SPOILERS a dream sequence in which a body armor clad person (identified as female) is cocooned upside down, arms behind her back like it's BDSM fetish art. She's facehugged, but there's also a pair of facehuggers grabbing onto her crotch and her rear end. Dream sequence be damned it's the dumbest thing they could have put in the first issue of a major Sci-Fi's franchise arrival to Marvel. Cool head explosion though. And there's a good cat. It survives (I think). *Edit* Sentinel Red posted:Here's a double page with the head of the 'family': This is the picture. Also, look next to the blatantly an action figure alien. It's our old friend, the Hammerpede/penis snake from Prometheus! Mutant Headcrab fucked around with this message at 00:07 on Mar 25, 2021 |
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Mar 24, 2021 23:59
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After a brief bit of googling, I have come to discover that the artist, Salvador Larocca, just drew himself for the protagonist. He apparently also did the same thing for an antagonist in the Marvel Star Wars comics. -The Artist  -A sketch of himself  -Star wars character Cylo  -Alien protagonist Gabriel Cruz 
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Mar 25, 2021 00:32
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Sentinel Red posted:Here's a double page with the head of the 'family': I keep coming back to this picture and I always keep noticing more things. In the back on the far left is the only ridge headed, Aliens-style warrior. I'm guessing it's traced from a NECA figure as well, given the weird thinness on it's elbow and wrist that look like articulation points. Also look along the bottom directly in the middle; there's an alien drone in a completely different art style that's being obscured by the photoshopped/traced aliens. What the gently caress is going on with this?
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Mar 25, 2021 23:51
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happyhippy posted:I wonder if you could create what happened in the corridor with the sentry guns. That last idea sounds cool as hell and people need to play in the "acid blood" idea pool more.
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Apr 2, 2021 00:27
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Just read issue 2 of the Marvel Alien comic. I don't like it. The characters are awful, the art continues to be bad, and part of the plot makes no sense to me. Spoilers for Issue 2: So the artist's self-insert is chewed out for letting his son steal his (still active despite being retired) security card. He's told to go up and retrieve a sample before they scuttle the station as it's gone to poo poo. He asks for a team of synthetics, but the corporate dude is like, "Nah, you hosed up and you're getting just two "operatives." Even if the mission is mostly punitive, if this sample is important enough to be retrieved in the midst of an infestation, why aren't they committing more than just three people? Also the protagonist is made fun of for being old, despite being built like a brick shithouse. This comic is bad.
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Apr 21, 2021 23:04
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Just got my .PDF of the Colonial Marines sourcebook for the Alien RPG. They've got stat blocks for all the vehicles from the old Kenner toy line. Hell yeah!
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May 11, 2021 18:53
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Xenomrph posted:I caved and preordered the sourcebook once I learned the PDF was coming out today, I want my PDF right goddamn now. I've only had a chance to skim it, but holy poo poo this thing is loaded down with lore. There are also comic references that I sure as poo poo never expected, like stats for the mutant xeno from Aliens: Kidnapped. *EDIT* They've got the Berserkers from Aliens: Berserk. Guess they couldn't license the old comic art, but the new visual design isn't too bad. Mutant Headcrab fucked around with this message at 21:26 on May 11, 2021 |
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May 11, 2021 20:57
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Xenomrph posted:The MOX unit is actually from 'Aliens: Tribes' (the ones from Berserker were MAX units). I'd have to double-check the comic but I think they got the design right. Tribes! The one that I never read! Also, that is pretty funny. Pretty great too! Congrats!
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May 12, 2021 01:48
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Do you want to eat like an ultimate badass? Well now you can! It's good for you, boy. Eat it!
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May 14, 2021 20:38
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Sjs00 posted:So what is being done gamewise with the stat blocks in the rest of that book released? I am considering buying it if I can run seriously crazy tank battles versus specific breeds of xenos, and if there is associated art or is it all text blocks So the entire book is geared up for running a campaign for Colonial Marines. It has a story driven campaign that weaves a narrative across multiple worlds, dealing with everything from drat dirty space commies, to Engineer ruins, to secret off-the-book black ops facilities. It also has random tables and more bare bones scenarios to help create your own custom campaign, as well as notes on how to file the serial numbers of the story campaign for your own use. Equipment wise, it gives stat blocks for new small arms, heavy ordinance, and vehicles (including tanks!) for both the USCMC and their equivalents in the 3WE, UPP, and ICSC. Same for starships, with some new information for Connestoga-class ships and new ships entirely for both the UA and UPP. Special appearance by the same ship class as the Betty from Alien Resurrection. There is new art for a chunk of the new equipment, but not all of it. Same with the ships, though the few that don't get art are likely not the kind you'll end up having players use. There are new talents and starting classes (or Military Occupational Specialties) for Marine players. Things like medics, vehicle specialists, et. There isn't much new as far as Xenos go. There's a new bio-engineered drone that has a built in expiration date and can't produce queens they sometimes survive the kill switch and they still reproduce through ovomorphosis. There's also a gross chestburster mutation that spreads a disease that makes you explode in a gore eruption. Anathema stat blocks if you missed them in Destroyer of Worlds. While xenomorphs and black goo are featured, a lot of the book is about the secret organizations on both sides of a rapidly heating cold war trying to be the first to actually weaponize xenomorphs. Speaking of black goo, this book serves as a continuation of the events of the Destroyer of Worlds book. I'll be curious to see if this meta-plot continues to progress in future books. *EDIT* The Arcturian thing is settled once and for all. Arcturians are all but directly stated to be another Engineer project, look incredibly close to human, and share a lot of our genetics. Also on their planet are the Arcturas, the semi-intelligent cave apes from the old Leading Edge RPG. Mutant Headcrab fucked around with this message at 06:09 on May 16, 2021 |
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May 16, 2021 04:24
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Xenomrph posted:That’s straight out of the comic series ‘Aliens: Kidnapped’ and it’s pretty wild to see it make a return. They even kept the pink egg, too!
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May 16, 2021 04:54
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MrMojok posted:I know this RPG is know for being extremely deadly for PCs, in terms of contact with the aliens. How does the USCMC fare? In a straight up fight, marines can reliably take out up to Stage IV xenomorphs. The big problem is the majority of encounters aren't straight up fights. Xenomorphs move fast, hide great, and tend towards ambush tactics. A dedicated Marine team has more gear and guns than Colonists or Space Truckers, but they ultimately still have to rely on balancing out stress and dice pushes. The real question is how well do players do against other people with guns. COVID has kept me running this game with my group as I intended so I haven't even had a chance to run Destroyer of Worlds and see how gunfights work out. (I just can't get into roll20; I need that physical presence to get into a game, running or playing). Xenomrph posted:I asked the RPG’s author about the cornbread recipe and he said the version in the PDF has some numbers flipped, which will be fixed in the print version. Oops! Aww! It sounds like they nailed the intended effect!
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May 17, 2021 02:41
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Just read Marvel's Alien #3. It's a better issue than the last two, but I still have some gripes. Our protagonist and one of his marines fire multiple pulse rifle rounds into the first alien they encounter and... it doesn't do anything but mildly hurt the alien. There's not even a gratuitous acid splash or anything. This happens multiple times: alien pops up, they shoot at it, it bleeds a tiny little bit, and it runs away. I'm really starting to question if either the artist or author have actually watched the films.
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May 27, 2021 19:30
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Folks on DeviantArt seem to think about Aliens too! I really wish they wouldn't!
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Jun 2, 2021 00:23
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frogge posted:So once the alien acid blood washed away, it'd basically be like the bug carapace armor from Morrowind? Yup. Just like in the documentary Aliens vs Predator.
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Jun 2, 2021 20:56
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Bulgaroctonus posted:
 It's uhh... Not movie accurate. For context sake, Lanard used to make a series of GIJoe knock offs called The Corps. If you told me this power loader was actually a recycled Corps vehicle, I'd believe it.
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Jun 12, 2021 22:15
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The Last Call posted:Peppermint Alien after getting into Willy Wonka's shop. They made them in several colors. 
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Jun 15, 2021 03:41
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The Last Call posted:
It's.... Fine? The horns feel a bit much. Although that comic really doesn't feel consistent about the aliens. Issue #3 they barely drove away a single drone with their pulse rifles. This newest issue has them mowing drones down left and right. It also seems like they're barely bleeding, which doesn't seem right. Makes me think back to all the aliens bursting like acid-filled balloons in Aliens. The lack of alien blood is probably because the author
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