Friday, August 23, 2024

My love for you is like a truck...wait, I still know I've done that before.

Probably? Or close enough! Just enough time for another quick Aliens comic: from 1995, Aliens: Berserker #4, written by John Wagner, pencils by Paul Mendoza, inks by Andy Mushynsky.
This was the conclusion of a mini-series, and as was traditional, not everybody makes it out: with some of his friends captured, and the battlesuit's pilot used up, young Ellis is forced to get in his mech to save them. Or, at least one of them: still, good effort. The suit isn't strictly mechanical, though: there's a painful looking interface to his skull, and I think it's shooting him full of fake adrenaline and such. While Ellis seems to take to the job, he and the rest of his "Berserker" crew are betrayed by their C.O, "Pops," who takes the Company line, but does insist on saving the one girl, Lara, for himself. Lara doesn't want anything to do with Pops, even when he pops open a mini-fridge for champagne--and gets a facehugger launched at him! (A page I knew I had seen before, on Sleestak's Aliens vs. Archie!)
Jess, Lara, and Ellis manage to escape before Pops's "failsafe" goes off; although Ellis looks pretty fried. The trio would go on to another mini, Aliens vs. Predator: War, which featured some other returning characters as well. Ugh, I think I just remembered the battlesuit or whatever from 2018's the Predator, a movie like Aliens: Covenant, that was so bad it's almost completely fallen out of my head. (I found Prometheus for a couple bucks at the pawn shop, so I was able to watch that with the Youngest; I still think it's interesting but not great. Then we watched a bunch of bonus features/deleted scenes/really pretentious footage that just makes it seem like a monster movie with a swelled head.)

1 comment:

Mr. Morbid said...

Jesus, poor Ellis. That’s got to be the most painful interface bonding between a human and machine I’ve ever seen since Wanda married Vision, lol.