Alien fans want to, though. I and many others have the novelizations of all the Alien entries, even the novelizations of the early Dark Horse comics
No we don’t!
Don’t get me wrong. I think I’ve read through most of the dark horse catalog, and I’ve read ALL of the marvel works. I loved a lot of it, but I always roll my eyes when they try to delve into the space jockey/engineer shyt. Some shyt doesn’t need to be uncovered because it will just cheapen things.
Like the predator stories, a lot relies of the mystery of the alien antagonist. That antagonist loses a lot of its menace when you know everything about it. I brushed off all the AvP flicks and comics when Prey came along and restored the feeling.
Alien gave us a horror story about a seemingly unstoppable, mystery killing machine that seemed to be able to adapt to anything. Not knowing what could be out there, where it comes from, how it does what it does, it being a part of nature, all adds to the horror.
Then Aliens comes along, and as much as I love it, kind of waters the killing machine down. Now it’s mostly unstoppable in high numbers. Humans can also kind of control where these things can be encountered. They’re disposable drones now. It’s all about action instead of horror.
Then Prometheus and covenant did their thing. Once you keep opening those doors, it’s hard to find ways to keep it reasonably scary. it’s even harder to close those doors and retcon shyt.
Plus it’s sometimes disappointing when a new writer comes in trying to put extra sauce on that shyt for no reason.
My favorite will always be the OG Alien 3 script being turned into a graphic novel. I also really liked the father daughter Marvel story on the satellite station. That would make a good movie.
It was a great sci-fi experience in the theater
