WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Alien #2 by Philip Kennedy Johnson, Salvador Larroca and Guru-eFX, on sale now.
Marvel’s Alien has continued to add to the iconic sci-fi franchise in an ominous, horrific light with a new threat rising on the Epsilon space station. The Weyland-Yutani corporation has once more been conducting sadistic experiments on Xenomorphs, thanks to research gathered from the Hadley’s Hope colony where Ripley and her crew were once entrenched in the movies.
In the latest issue, the company sends its best soldier, the just-retired Gabe, to the site to investigate. The mission turns south, however, when he and his team encounter a Xenomorph that may well be most ferocious specimen ever seen in the franchise.
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Gabe’s been told by his superiors that he has to return to Epsilon to retrieve an embryo, “the alpha,” that the team had been working on for years. It’s top-secret so they can’t trust anyone else, and given he was part of the security detail there in the past, they only trust him. Plus, they need him to bring his son Danny back, who led a terrorist faction that threw the facility into disarray.
To finish the job, they also need Gabe to sabotage the controls and bring the station plummeting to Earth, making it could look like an accident with no further questions asked by the governments involved. The problem is, when Gabe gets there, a Xenomorph monster is already running loose. His team consists of two juniors who aren’t very experienced in battle, so he hopes to avoid any confrontation with live aliens.
The team finds a young lady just as the face-huggers attack. Gabe tells his team to kill everything and everyone in sight, except Danny, because it’s now the survival of the fittest. Sadly, the end of the issue sees lights going off and one of the soldiers being impaled by a Xenomorph’s spiked tail. In the red, blinking emergency light, a giant Xenomorph emerges, hinting that it’s the alpha.
Gabe’s usually stone-cold exterior is broken by fear, when he notices the alpha embryo cell is empty. It seems like it got loose and began feeding, turning into the beast he and his team now face. What makes it even scarier is Gabe also has an idea of the splicing that has taken place.
Gabe and his team found alien bodies in the shape of dogs, confirming animal DNA from Earth has been combined with the Xenomorphs. It’s something the first issue hinted at as well, and now it looks like the ultimate killer — one that’s bigger, faster and stronger — has been unleashed upon Gabe and his unsuspecting team.
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