Aliens: Defiance Volume 1

Great story and excellent art on par with Aliens: Labyrinth. But be advised, this ends on a cliffhanger, so expect to pic up volume 2 for the full story.

This was my first time reading any alien comics and this in my opinion was a great start! The moment I started reading I was hooked, couldnt put it down until it was over, it got me craving for more! The art is beautifully interesting and the is story was just so good!

Great comic

I loved this series. I am a hardcore fan of the franchise and I've literally read everything they've produced. A lot of recycled storylines came out during the 90's, but this one was fresh all the way. Absolutely brilliant with fantastic art. Very intelligent and thrilling storytelling. I binge-read both books. Couldn't help it. Definitely get this one.

Two words: Tristan Jones. The kind of artwork I always want in an Alien comic but pretty much never get. Story is fun too- captures the feel of Alien and A:Isolation, while nodding to the other films. I LOVE anything that can portray the world of the first film, so this was a treat. Keep commissioning that artist, Dark Horse!

I am more interested in books rather than graphic novels so I gave this to a grandson who is more interersted. He really liked it! Thank you!

So many things that you would think would be a let down, but nope! This is a worthy addition to the alien comics collection! Just read it!

I’m going to go ahead and review both volumes of “Defiance,” as I am too lazy to write two separate reviews for what is one story arc.I read “Defiance” because I collect the Alien RPG and “Inferno’s Fall” had a game module included. Well, so that I could understand the context of that module better, I traced back to the beginning of the Zula Hendricks story arc, which is the “Defiance” comic series.My overall impression of the comic is “meh.”I’m not a fan of the comic-book medium to begin with. Aside from just generally hating the way different franchises will try to rope you into buying multiple media by staggering a character’s story across video games, comics, novels, AND movies simultaneously; I also just think that comic book artists try to get too clever with new ways of presenting their panels, and the result is often just incoherent and disordered. There’s a lot of that going on here. There are also a lot of random flackbacks (or flashforwards? or dreams?) that are unexplained. As with any art form, we humans tend to find complexity more interesting, but there is a point of diminishing returns at which the complexity becomes confusing and thus frustrating. That’s very much a weakness of this storytelling.I’m not drawn to the characters. Zula Hendricks herself is a diversity insertion: Black, female, and disabled. Her personality is the one-dimensional “tough female Marine” trope that’s been done to death, and there is nothing more complex or interesting about her. She also makes the single dumbest decision in the story—trusting her therapist even after the therapist has already betrayed her one time before. Davis One is ridiculous and unexplained: a combat android who just randomly decided to reprogram himself to act against Company orders. Hollis is weak and useless prey; I didn’t shed a single tear over her predictably dark end.I’m not particularly drawn to the story. Zula is sent with a team of combat androids on a retrieval mission to a derelict craft that is—wait for it—infested with xenomorphs. The lead combat synthetic, Davis One, mutinies to try to prevent Weyland-Yutani from collecting a sample of the creature. Everything else follows from this mutiny, which Zula inadvertently gets pulled into.The artwork itself is okay. It looks like something from the 90’s—better quality than the high color contrasts of most comics in the 80’s, but still not the best the medium has ever been capable of.Still, I didn’t completely hate “Defiance,” even if all of what I’ve said so far is negative. It’s not terrible. It’s just not as good as I'd expect it to be as the beginning of a big story arc in the franchise. Here’s hoping that the rest of Zula’s story makes for a better read.

I liked the story and the main character.I suggest you read the few pages on Amazon they offer as a peak into the book.I did so, I got intrigued and bought Volume 1 and 2. I did not regret it.

One of the best Alien comics I have read. Story is well writen, the art work good and the main characters engaging. I can not rate this enough, if there is only get one Alien comic this year make it this one.

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One of the best Alien comics I've ever read.

A great first volume in this Aliens spin-off series, set before the Aliens film. It has lots of potential, and the characters are engaging, with enough quirks between them to have me intrigued. The plot and pacing, whilst riffing on familiar hooks from across the Alien saga films, felt fresh and full of genuine jeopardy. I'll certainly be picking up future volumes. And yes, way better than either Prometheus or Alien: Covenant...