ALIENS: DEAD ORBIT - A Lost Horror Masterpiece
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- Опубликовано: 19 окт 2021
- An analysis of James Stokoe's comic book, ALIENS: DEAD ORBIT - a now out of print comic book masterpiece for Dark Horse Comics, discussing the innate terror of the Alien franchise, how the xenomorph has been translated to comics in the past, and how Stokoe uses the comic medium to tell an amazing story of sci-fi horror.
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Music:
"Aliens" OST
"The Quiet Earth" by Thomas Barrandon
"Monsters" by The Midnight
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Read the complete essay on Comic Book Herald! www.comicbookherald.com/aliens-dead-orbit-a-lost-horror-masterpiece/
In your next video, why make a video about the history of the japanese's longest tokusatsu series Ultraman and the entire Ultra Series. Please make that one instead😁😁😁
It's in stock on Amazon, it's not exactly 'lost'
You constantly keep finding intriguing fantasies.. it’s remarkable yet incredible you’re ability to stay afloat. Enjoying your choice of intellectual graphic novel choices. Base themes I enjoy myself are human psychology, evil & good, thought provoking ideas and philosophical tragedy.
Well, this is how I find out Dead Orbit is out of print and rare now. I picked it up in a clearance sale, it was a pretty great surprise, if a bit short.
Pics or it didn’t happen you liar.
@@neurohack9038 :|
Me to high five
@@neurohack9038 dog why would I take a pic of a clearance sale
Dead Orbit is being reprinted in an Alien omnibus that Marvel is releasing next year.
Omar just made a video about it this morning on the Near Mint Condition channel.
IMO, the beat way to keep the xenomorph unsettling is to use it to explore different horrors.
Touching on the lovecraftian horror in the first I remember reading a Comic years ago, set in a colony, where the suggestion of xenomorph presence leads to a cult worhipping the Queen.
It uses religious horror, combined with the idea that none of the cultists beliefs are factually wrong.
It used an awesomely unique style, with mostly sharply edged black and white with mostly silhouetted figure. Think of sin city drawn with a marker, or paper cutouts.
Damn. I wish I could remember the title....
I am screencapping this and posting to Reddit. Someone there will definitely know!
@@comicbookprodigy995 Did someone know?
@@carltanner7461 seconded
Is it an alien comic? It might be the one I'm listening to now. Jane is the protagonist?
Sounds like the new Marvel Alien comic, or the older Earth War series.
Xenomorph + Necromorph + Flood + Warhammer xenos = literally the worst sci fi universe to live in
Who would win, flood or brother moons?
Ah hell no
Add the Shrike from Hyperion, borg, invaders from getter robo Armageddon, skynet, the city from blame, parasite x, and replicators from stargate to make it much worse.
@@ATemplarIGuess depends on how much of a head start the Flood get. If the Brother Moons already possess all organic material in the galaxy, well, its already their win by virtue of that being their goal. While the Flood usually parasitize not just bodies, but existing technology and industrial bases. They don't typically make anything themselves, and as far as I know they don't research and develop any technologies themselves (unless you literally interpret them to be the Precursors. Then it's open to interpretation)
Warhammer universe is already all that and beyond. Never heard of Tyranids? They are basically xenomorph turns to one thousand..
As soon as you mentioned this was out of print I checked online and discovered one of my local comic stores still had the oversized hardcover edition in stock for the recommended retail price. Ordered it on the spot.
Edit: it's arrived and it's bigger than I expected. I anticipated an oversized hardcover like what DC and Marvel put out but it's got the same dimensions as a DC absolute edition which is even larger again.
Please never stop with these horror videos. Oh man, i can't get enough of them!
ME AT 6:10 - _Oh, a page insert from a random book. I love those! My favorite book ever is House of Leaves. I would probably use a page from that if it was me. I wonder what page they used. I should pause the video and find out._
ME A FEW MOMENTS LATER - *existential dread face, locks deadbolt, destroys cellphone*
Stokoe's graphic style strongly reminds me of Katsuhiro Otomo's
I’m so happy to see you got around to making this video! Been looking forward to this one for a while. I really like that Dead Orbit has a very simple story and focuses on translating scary ass moments that’d be easy to pull off in a movie to its pages. I recall the moment in the book where the main character mistakes pipes for a xenomorph. That was really well done! Great video, Matt! This spooky series of vids has been killer!
Thank you, Diego! I love that first little moment with the pipes, perfectly plays off the audience's knowledge of the franchise.
James Stokoe is on another level, he's easily up there with Mike Mignola as my favorite comic book artist
I read this comic. It is CRIMINALLY UNDERRATED!
I won a copy of the JP oversized hardcover of Dead Orbit. Love the artwork and the story is decent. Makes me want more Aliens graphic novels
Ahh Matt! Not even a business week after you posted this, marvel announced the release of a new Aliens omnibus which collects Dead Orbit among others! Won’t be out until next year but the book won’t be out of print much longer.
Never had any doubt it wasn't coming back. It's just a matter of processing all the acquired assets, right?
@@johnathonhaney8291 it’s just surprising how soon the announcement came. Video’s already partially outdated only 3 days after it was uploaded
@@mphylo2296 The corporate merger process moves in mysterious ways.
Surely Matt has caught the eye of these major publishing companies! Haha.
I think I picked up my digital copy after a Patreon-exclusive review, and I tracked down an oversized hardcover after this video. Thanks Matt!
Some of the Aliens and Predator novels are surprisingly good...Predator Eyes of the Dragon has some good stories, so does AVP Ultimate Prey..some of those short stories would make great comics actually. Alot of stuff from the Predators point of view which is cool when done well
Curious, do you happen to have read Aliens: Mondo Pest and its sequel Mondo Heat? Some of the artwork is very Bruce Timm-esque, and while these are primarily action-oriented, they carry the Alien theme quite well albeit with a slight dark comedy slant.
People used to trash those so hard but I loved them. Lovesick as well. Nothing wrong with a little variety.
Great review.
When I was a kid I read the Beano, Dandy, and 2000AD like Judge Dredd. I would have loved to read the Aliens comics.
I believe that Dead Orbit, of all the comic stories about xenomorphs that I have read, is the only one that contains what I would like to find in a similar product: few characters, a rusty, decadent, industrial and isolated setting from which it is difficult escape, few xenomorphs (even better, only one, but in Dead Orbit, Stokoe juggled the twins quite well) and only one survivor, condemned to die anyway due to lack of oxygen.
I have always loved Alien over the sequels, although I recognize that they are all excellent films... but there is something in the first film (and in the products that recall its atmosphere) that continues to intrigue me more than the stories with the marines, or at least more action-oriented.
God, i would absolutely LOVE to see you do a review on Alien: Isolation.
great video as always matt, keep it up
Man I’m happy to see some love for this comic! I only recently read it a year or two ago, digitally on comixology unlimited. Been searching my book store for it occasionally only to now find out it’s out of print! Hopefully Marvel will re-release it.
I absolutely love the detail and care put into every panel. Just looking at meticulous drawings of huge space ships was a treat. You could tell the artist put a lot of care and love into his work. Then you mention the artist did EVERYTHING ELSE TOO. Bravo man, Definitely a labor of love.
I recently discovered your channel and have been working through your catalog. Wonderful stuff. I read a digital copy of Dead Orbit because of this video. I think following up Alien can go in one of two directions. Either a creator tries something totally new like Prometheus and the fans hate it (and then eventually like it after about a decade) or a creator can remix the tropes and archetypes into new media and structures and the fans call it boring. Dead Orbit is definitely in the latter category. Dead Orbit doesn’t say anything new, but it feels like listening to your favorite ghost story told by someone who loves it even more than you do. Despite that simplicity I thought the "twist" ending was perfection and maybe even more like an "Alien ending" than the original Alien? Incidentally Prometheus is one of my all time favorite movies. It's not perfect, but I'll never miss an opportunity to defend what it does well or watch it again. Keep up the good work!
Keep up the great work man, I'm loving this channel 😎
I'm jumping the gun here to comment before I've seen the video, but as much as I wanted to love this comic it didn't really affect me. I love James Stokoe as an artist - he's phenomenal. But I'm not the biggest Aliens fan and the tension just wasn't there for me. At least the artwork is undeniably gorgeous.
With it being the 55th anniversary of the original night of the living dead, and my appreciation on your channel’s video’s discussing both comic books and horror, could you do a future video on Gorge A Romero’s empire of the dead comic book series he created with marvel in 2014?
+1 for use of music by The Midnight, excellent choice
I'm really glad that I picked up my copy of Dead Orbit a few years ago.
Guardians of the Galaxy number-3XX:
*Ben Grimm:* "Do you guys hear something in the vents???"
[a *Xenomorph* drops through the ceiling]
*Venom:* "Who the fuck is this guy!?"
😂
Was lucky enough to buy the comics. This is so good and the artwork is amazing!
Yessss talking about the best aliens comic.
Fantastic video. I picked up Dead Orbit when it was still available on Amazon a few years back. Just picked up Bloodlines last week, and was also a good read. For the Alien franchise, it feels like comics are their best output.
Rutger Haur fought something inspired by a Xenomorph alien in a movie titled Split Second (1992).
It was better than most of the Dark Horse movie franchise books but honestly the only truly worthy entry into the Alien universe since Aliens is Alien Isolation. That game is scary AF.
I remember you recommending this comic when I commented on the Unmade Alien Sequels video. Gave it read because I loved James Stokoe’s work on Godzilla: Half-Century War. Really loved it and I hope Marvel reprints it for new audiences to rediscover it (as long as they pay Stokoe of course). I’ve been behind on your videos due to school work and adjusting to campus life but great video Matt and here’s for another Halloween video.
Also, is the next video about the Pumpkin the rises from the Pumpkin Patch?! 👀
Thank you! ALMOST did Great Pumpkin this year. ALMOST.
I think I have all of dead orbit which is nice. I think I got it for a birthday present. I also bought the first issue at a pop store for $4.
Great analysis!
This was one I haven't read art is amazing
Thanks for the info Matt your the best 👌. Much ❤ as always 😊
Great news for this mini! Next year’s Aliens Classic Years Omnibus Vol. 4 will contain this series in oversized hardcover glory!
Im so glad I got the Dead Orbit trade paperback when the Dark Horse stuff was in its last months on shelves. There were alot next to it that I gotta pay alot for now online...but James Stokoe is one of the best artists and I had to get it over Defiance, AVP omnibus, other things I can't get..but Stokoe was born to draw a classic Alien story like this. I usually prefer things that add to the lore like Fire and Stone but this is one of the best and a highlight in Aliens Original Years Vol 4.
I have his comic series Orc Stain and I absolutely love his way of creating comics. I just hope that I can eventually find this comic book series.
Never heard of this one but I’m looking it up now
Another banger, Matt.
Ahhh. Earth hive. Brings me back.
It is not a coincidence that the first moving pictures and the first comic section in newspapers appeared at the same time. If you think about it, there are a lot of similarities between some language and comic book art language. Let’s talk about that.
Hey it's House of Leaves so Dead Orbit is now part of House of Leaves as it continues to grow and consume the vase emptiness.
Seriously though Dead Orbit is amazing and I love that it is getting love even if Marvel probably has it planned to be in the their 4th or 5th omnibus.
Fast Track to Heaven by Liam Sharp is my all-time fave Aliens art. Great story too.
My idea for a third alien covenant/prometheus movie is as follows:
The engineers are the main characters in the movie and comes to the planet that was in the Prometheus movie.
There they find Weyland inside the crashed spaceship. They have a blue elixir which they empty all over him and bring him to life.
But while doing this the Deacon from the Prometheus movie sneaks into their spaceship and hide it self in one of the ventilation chambers.
In the next part they arrive at the planet from alien covenant and find the other robot(Walter) who is david's twin.The engineers use the blue elixir and repairs him.
Once awaken the engineers and Weyland get to know all the horrible things that David has done, and weyland says "we have to stop David" .
They set course for origae. When they arrive,they scans all the planet,and finds the planet is full of hostile organisms except
on a high mountain where they discover that there are humans inside a cave.
Inside the cave they meet a herd of children, who tell that when they had lived on the planet for over ten years,
they began to be attacked by Xenomorphs and all the adults died or were turned into these creatures.
There were also great giants developed by someone the children calls David.
The engineers get ready to wipe out all the Xenomorphs that David has created, but the great giants manage to escape with one of the engineers' spaceships.
The engineers and Weyland hunts the spaceship and manage to force the spaceship down on the planet lv426.Where it start sending a distress signal.
The engineers return to Origae to find David, but discover that he has escaped.
In the last part we see David arriving and meeting an unknown alien species
on a tropical like planet.
But when he and the unknown aliens have left the spaceship,the deacon slips out of the ship and is seen running toward the nearest settlement.
And that makes the cliffhanger that ends the third movie.
The ending movie could have a duration about five hours ?
Can you take a look at Silver Surfer Black?
Stokoe is fantastic
Not lost anymore, it’s been published in the 2023 Aliens the Original Years Omnibus 4!
Great issue. I think I read it once on Comixology. Alien and Predator comics are some of the best, feeling of their time but apart from them.
Another comic you should read and cover is Halloween: Nightdance, which is the best Halloween sequel never made into film, and it too is out of print.
Hey Matt, could you maybe talk about Batman: The Cult? It's a FANTASTIC book, but for some reason it's out of print. This kind of thing doesn't change until we raise hell.
That would be cool!
Ah, that's one of Jim Starlin's actually. Despite being the writer on Death In The Family, he doesn't get enough credit as a Batman writer.
It has beautiful artwork by the legendary Berni Wrightson.
Would you ever do a video on O'Neil & Adams batman run?
That's something I'd really like to do someday. No immediate plans, but someday.
@@MattDraper Please, Matt...sooner would be better. Denny is gone and I am way past tired of Frank Miller scarfing all the credit he and Adams deserves for the return of the Dark Knight.
I have this one on my shelf, I went to the bookstore to kill some time before I had to take the bus and just randomly decided to get something and since there was no new Yotsuba volume yet, I got this one instead
Speaking of space body horror in the comic medium, I'm eternally hoping that someone does solid dive into Morrison's Nameless.
James Stokoe is the best person in comics.
"In the vast cold of space lurks a terrifying evil that knows no mercy. And soon, that evil will be inside you."
Read that as Peter Cushing and then as Peter Griffin and you'll have 2 very different stories.
I have all of the individual issues and the giant version. So dope.
Great recommendation!!! There are ways of bringing some creative products back from the dead which might seem unnatural...
Wow! I actually bought this the same time they were releasing the Predator and Alien omnibus's. Oh, how I miss Dark Horse's runs on the franchise. Things will never be the same.
Ah the good old dark horse alien comics. 10/10 better than the new Marvel stories
Just read the oversized copy from my library and thought it was amazing! I had to look it up on RUclips to see what others thought. Shame it’s so expensive I would have loved to have a copy of my own!
I used to collect the Alien and Predator DH comics. I recall my AVP #0 was one of my prize possessions. Stopped collecting the Alien comics after the HIVE series. I wish I kept collecting them, but I was like 17 and had other priorities (girls lol).
There were people saying that this comic was manga inspired but i just don't see it. I do like its subtle take and inspiration from the first movie.
Probably the way the human characters are drawn. It might well be more of a European sensibility in play that some American comic fans are unfamiliar with.
Well, all the videos have been great. My assumption is that Shin Godzilla will be the Halloween finale
Here's hoping for a look at From Hell for the finale this month. Just finished reading that one recently.
a main reason i dont bother getting into the graphic novel/comics is because they're incredibly expensive. i cant justify spending 25+ dollars on something ill read once and just have sitting on a shelf for the foreseeable future.
Nice!
I have this book on my phone. Loved the detailed art, story was a bit lacking but effective. Most memorable was when the Capt. fucked up the cryo-freezers and burned the flesh off that sleeping crew 👍
I dont like how the story was told but that cyro freeze bit was 🤌
Ooh awesome
Just to let folks know, Dead Orbit is available in TP form via amazon etc. Yes have my copy, hardback, and worth the price.
Aliens original years boys … every Alien comic collected into 4 1000 pagers
Well now I wanna read it so I'm not gonna finish the video I don't wanna get spoiled
Xenomorphs should make it fairly easy to write all sorts of horror and action stories.
Is that The Quiet Earth by Thomas Barrandon I hear at 2:07?
I was lucky enough to buy a copy at a comic book store.
The art work reminds me of old anime
I’d love to hear what you make of Alan Moore’s From Hell
dead orbit is included in aliens marvel omnibus 4 coming summer 2022
The lord has blessed us.
I would recommend dead space books and comics
05:51 name of track? It doesn’t seem to match either of those listed in the description
13:16 Disney has been doing that with a shit ton of Star Wars material from before they bought it.
It's a corporation being a corporation. -_-
This comic deserves an animated feature. I don't know why they are not making Alien animated movies? Just look at shows like Castlevania or franchises like Dead Space. Alien would be perfect for the animated horror domain.
Could anyone tell me the names of the comics that are seen from 6:16-6:42? I would appreciate it.
11:00 Fun!
Lost? I recommend this to everyone I know. Oh you mean it's out of print... that sucks.
I love Aliens Inhuman Condition. Do you know this comic book?
what comic story is being shown at 6:23??
It’s not lost! I have it at my house!
I'm disappointed i won't get the chance to read it, at the very least for a long time.
Artstyle looks like hellboy
The style seems quite reminiscent of the Alien storyboard.
hey, there are some great Alien video games. Don't be afraid.
I've been collecting Alien's/xenomorph,Dark Horse comic's since I was 8.when the 1st Aliens vs Predator,4 issue comic debuted. And I'd not heard of this one until this video! So thanks for the content. Dang, really wish I could add this to my library. The new marvel book's are absolutely dreadful! The worst xenomorph material thus far,worse than covenant even. They've ruined another simple story,not difficult to create a fun story in an established universe!?
Personally I feel like Alien was the best , aliens was ok and it all went downhill from there . I do like Avp , the first one , but it's not on the same level . As far as the comics go I have the first omnibus and I'd say its just ok
Wouldn't exactly call the Xenomorph as "evil"... More of an Indifferent Force of Nature... And in most of the movies and comics, the humans are far more evil than anything else...
So it went with a bang?.
What's the name of stokoes alien heavy action space marines story