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@rantetwins527

2 жыл бұрын

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😁😁😁

@TerenceA72

2 жыл бұрын

It's in stock on Amazon, it's not exactly 'lost'

@thelibrary2

2 жыл бұрын

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.

@neurohack9038

2 жыл бұрын

Pics or it didn’t happen you liar.

@ATemplarIGuess

2 жыл бұрын

@@neurohack9038 :|

@zacharylund6926

2 жыл бұрын

Me to high five

@ChicaneryBear

2 жыл бұрын

@@neurohack9038 dog why would I take a pic of a clearance sale

@Dhampir101980

2 жыл бұрын

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....

@comicbookprodigy995

2 жыл бұрын

I am screencapping this and posting to Reddit. Someone there will definitely know!

@carltanner7461

2 жыл бұрын

@@comicbookprodigy995 Did someone know?

@thrillsekr2606

2 жыл бұрын

@@carltanner7461 seconded

@lXlQueenofScots

Жыл бұрын

Is it an alien comic? It might be the one I'm listening to now. Jane is the protagonist?

@Jack_Jack_907

Жыл бұрын

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

@ATemplarIGuess

2 жыл бұрын

Who would win, flood or brother moons?

@doom7ish

2 жыл бұрын

Ah hell no

@flamestoyershadowkill6400

2 жыл бұрын

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.

@terrykrugii5652

2 жыл бұрын

@@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)

@killuminati2911

2 жыл бұрын

Warhammer universe is already all that and beyond. Never heard of Tyranids? They are basically xenomorph turns to one thousand..

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!

@MattDraper

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you, Diego! I love that first little moment with the pipes, perfectly plays off the audience's knowledge of the franchise.

Please never stop with these horror videos. Oh man, i can't get enough of them!

Stokoe's graphic style strongly reminds me of Katsuhiro Otomo's

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.

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*

I read this comic. It is CRIMINALLY UNDERRATED!

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.

@johnathonhaney8291

2 жыл бұрын

Never had any doubt it wasn't coming back. It's just a matter of processing all the acquired assets, right?

@mphylo2296

2 жыл бұрын

@@johnathonhaney8291 it’s just surprising how soon the announcement came. Video’s already partially outdated only 3 days after it was uploaded

@johnathonhaney8291

2 жыл бұрын

@@mphylo2296 The corporate merger process moves in mysterious ways.

@comicbookprodigy995

2 жыл бұрын

Surely Matt has caught the eye of these major publishing companies! Haha.

James Stokoe is on another level, he's easily up there with Mike Mignola as my favorite comic book artist

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!

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.

@adistantimage3928

2 жыл бұрын

People used to trash those so hard but I loved them. Lovesick as well. Nothing wrong with a little variety.

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

great video as always matt, keep it up

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.

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.

Keep up the great work man, I'm loving this channel 😎

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?

God, i would absolutely LOVE to see you do a review on Alien: Isolation.

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

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!

This was one I haven't read art is amazing

Was lucky enough to buy the comics. This is so good and the artwork is amazing!

Rutger Haur fought something inspired by a Xenomorph alien in a movie titled Split Second (1992).

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?! 👀

@MattDraper

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! ALMOST did Great Pumpkin this year. ALMOST.

I'm really glad that I picked up my copy of Dead Orbit a few years ago.

Yessss talking about the best aliens comic.

Ahhh. Earth hive. Brings me back.

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!?"

@FabianEllis

2 жыл бұрын

😂

+1 for use of music by The Midnight, excellent choice

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.

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.

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.

Great analysis!

Never heard of this one but I’m looking it up now

Thanks for the info Matt your the best 👌. Much ❤ as always 😊

Fast Track to Heaven by Liam Sharp is my all-time fave Aliens art. Great story too.

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.

Another banger, Matt.

Stokoe is fantastic

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.

Speaking of space body horror in the comic medium, I'm eternally hoping that someone does solid dive into Morrison's Nameless.

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.

Not lost anymore, it’s been published in the 2023 Aliens the Original Years Omnibus 4!

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 ?

Would you ever do a video on O'Neil & Adams batman run?

@MattDraper

2 жыл бұрын

That's something I'd really like to do someday. No immediate plans, but someday.

@johnathonhaney8291

2 жыл бұрын

@@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.

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 have all of the individual issues and the giant version. So dope.

Can you take a look at Silver Surfer Black?

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.

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.

Ooh awesome

Nice!

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.

@MattDraper

2 жыл бұрын

That would be cool!

@johnathonhaney8291

2 жыл бұрын

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.

@shanelorrison5224

2 жыл бұрын

It has beautiful artwork by the legendary Berni Wrightson.

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

James Stokoe is the best person in comics.

Just read the oversized copy from my library and thought it was amazing! I had to look it up on KZread to see what others thought. Shame it’s so expensive I would have loved to have a copy of my own!

Great recommendation!!! There are ways of bringing some creative products back from the dead which might seem unnatural...

Here's hoping for a look at From Hell for the finale this month. Just finished reading that one recently.

Well, all the videos have been great. My assumption is that Shin Godzilla will be the Halloween finale

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.

@johnathonhaney8291

2 жыл бұрын

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.

The art work reminds me of old anime

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 👍

@athan336

2 жыл бұрын

I dont like how the story was told but that cyro freeze bit was 🤌

"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.

Just to let folks know, Dead Orbit is available in TP form via amazon etc. Yes have my copy, hardback, and worth the price.

I’d love to hear what you make of Alan Moore’s From Hell

Is that The Quiet Earth by Thomas Barrandon I hear at 2:07?

Ah the good old dark horse alien comics. 10/10 better than the new Marvel stories

I was lucky enough to buy a copy at a comic book store.

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.

The lord has blessed us.

Xenomorphs should make it fairly easy to write all sorts of horror and action stories.

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

05:51 name of track? It doesn’t seem to match either of those listed in the description

11:00 Fun!

dead orbit is included in aliens marvel omnibus 4 coming summer 2022

I would recommend dead space books and comics

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.

I love Aliens Inhuman Condition. Do you know this comic book?

The style seems quite reminiscent of the Alien storyboard.

Lost? I recommend this to everyone I know. Oh you mean it's out of print... that sucks.

I'm disappointed i won't get the chance to read it, at the very least for a long time.

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. -_-

So it went with a bang?.

Now I'm kinda curious what you think of Alien: Covenant.

@MattDraper

2 жыл бұрын

I thought it was hilarious. And I don't think it was trying to be!

Artstyle looks like hellboy

It’s not lost! I have it at my house!

This is obviously going to be in a later volume of Marvel's omnibu.

@johnathonhaney8291

2 жыл бұрын

Seems likely...they're just getting the older stuff out of the way first.

@adistantimage3928

2 жыл бұрын

Just announced: Dead Orbit in volume 4

@johnathonhaney8291

2 жыл бұрын

@@adistantimage3928 I rest my case.

what comic story is being shown at 6:23??

Could anyone tell me the names of the comics that are seen from 6:16-6:42? I would appreciate it.

Damn I was going to buy this lol

@r.graves5531

9 ай бұрын

its been reprinted along with all of the old dark horse stories in omnibus formate. its in the original years volume 4

hey, there are some great Alien video games. Don't be afraid.

What's the name of stokoes alien heavy action space marines story

I prefer James stokoes original aliens colonial marines pitch