Superman Vs Aliens
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Superman vs. Predator | |
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Publication information | |
Publisher | DC Comics |
Publication date | 2000 |
Creative team | |
Written by | David Michelinie and Alex Maleev |
Superman vs. Predator is an intercompany crossover pitting DC Comics icon Superman against the Predator creature first seen in the 1987John McTiernan film Predator starring Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Previous encounters[edit]
A previous storyline had already featured the other DC Comics icon Batman fighting the Predator, while Superman had also been shown battling the Aliens from the Alien film series. Most recently Batman and Superman have been shown battling both the Predators and the Aliens side by side.
Plot[edit]
A S.T.A.R. Labs expedition uncovers an ancient derelict spacecraft in the jungles of Central America. Superman investigates the ship and is afflicted by an alien virus causing his powers to fluctuate wildly. The group is captured by a band of mercenaries working for a clandestine scientist. He plans to use the alien technology to facilitate selective global genocide based on genetic sequencing, but he didn't count on one thing - the meanest alien hunter in the galaxy! The Predator senses Superman is a worthy opponent and begins stalking him while concurrently seeking to reclaim the stolen technology appropriated by the scientist. It's a race against time for Superman to save countless millions of lives.
Collected editions[edit]
The series has been collected as a trade paperback: Verizon 4g apn.
- Superman vs. Predator (by David Michelinie and Alex Maleev, DC Comics, 3-issue mini-series, 2000, tpb, 2001, ISBN1-56389-732-6)
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- Superman vs. Predator at the Comic Book DB
Superman/Aliens Superman/Aliens 2: God War | |
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Superman/Aliens #1. Art by Dan Jurgens & Kevin Nowlan | |
Publication information | |
Publisher | Dark Horse, DC |
Schedule | (1st series): Monthly (2nd series): Bi-monthly |
Format | Limited series |
Publication date | (1st series): July–September 1995 (2nd series): May–December 2002 |
No. of issues | (1st series): 3 (2nd series): 4 |
Main character(s) | Superman, Aliens |
Creative team | |
Written by | Dan Jurgens Chuck Dixon |
Penciller(s) | Dan Jurgens Jon Bogdanove |
Inker(s) | Kevin Nowlan |
Letterer(s) | Bill Oakley |
Colorist(s) | Gregory Wright |
Editor(s) | Lynn Adair Bob Kahan |
Superman/Aliens is an American comic booklimited series about a battle between the superhero Superman and the aliens created by H. R. Giger (a.k.a. the Xenomorphs), from the Alien film series. The writers use the plot device of Superman's powers temporarily diminishing-due to him being in a location with a distinct lack of yellow sunlight that his body requires to give him his powers-to make the Xenomorphs a believable threat to the Man of Steel.[1][2]
Creative team on this miniseries: story and layout art by Dan Jurgens, with finished art by Kevin Nowlan. It was published by Dark Horse Comics in unison with DC Comics from July 1995-September 1995.
- 2Superman/Aliens 2: God War
Plot[edit]
Accompanying Doctor Cheryl Kimble—the head of Lexcorp's space division—on the investigation of an incoming probe as part of Lexcorp's attempts to improve its public image, Clark is shocked to discover that the pod's transmissions are a Kryptonian distress call. Making contact with the pod, Superman receives a telepathic transmission of a city that survived the destruction of its planet and is now running out of resources. Taking a ship to investigate the city—which is located far from any sun, causing his powers to fade the longer he remains—Superman discovers a small group of unconscious survivors and sends them back to the Lexcorp satellite in his ship. Further exploration puts him against an Alien, but his depleted powers allow the creature to wound him before he is rescued by Kara, another survivor of the city, who explains that the Aliens came from an abandoned freighter containing an Alien Queen that crashed on Argo years ago.
Back on the Lexcorp satellite, the chestbursters (immature Xenomorphs) hatch from the hosts that Superman sent back, leaving Doctor Kimble determined to capture and analyse them while Lois Lane is forced to face an Alien in the hangar, only just managing to force the Alien into space by opening the airlock while she hides in the ship. As Kimble witnesses two of the remaining chestbursters 'hatch,' Lois torches the infants with a spray can and a match, but she and Kimble are forced together to escape the last, full-grown Alien as it begins to tear the satellite apart.
As Superman and Kara attempt to escape, both of them are captured and 'impregnated' with embryos, but this gives them an advantage; since Superman's embryo is that of an Alien Queen, the Aliens will not risk harming him. As they escape, Superman learns that Kara is not from Krypton, but from Odiline, the planet where The Cleric—-the being who originally gave Superman the Eradicator-—laid the bodies of his Kryptonian followers to rest after their demise, with Odiline growing to revere Kryptonians as their spiritual protectors, adopting much of their customs and language. Reaching the freighter that brought the Aliens to Argo originally, the two discover escape pods and transporter booths, but the pods launch mechanisms are jammed; the only way to launch them is to destroy the ship. While Superman preps the coordinates, Kara sets the core to overload before returning to a transporter booth; unfortunately, crucial seconds are lost when Superman uses the booth to teleport the embryo out of her, with Kara being forced out of the booth by an Alien attack moments before the ship is destroyed and the pod launched.
Arriving back in Earth's solar system, Superman's powers are restored just in time to stop the chestburster from emerging, allowing him to 'crush' it and regurgitate out of his system before catching the falling satellite, Kimble subsequently killing the last Alien. Soilwork steel bath suicide rare earth. As Superman departs, however, he is left mourning the loss of Kara-—the closest thing to a sister he might ever know--unaware that she made it to a pod before Argo's destruction and remains lost in space.
Superman/Aliens 2: God War[edit]
In 2002, a sequel was published called Superman/Aliens 2: God War. It was written by Chuck Dixon, with art by Jon Bogdanove and Kevin Nowlan.
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Plot[edit]
In this sequel, Darkseid acquires several Alien eggs, subsequently sending them to New Genesis within several Parademons and unleashing them on his foes, with an embryo even infesting Orion.
Learning that he will die from the embryo within him, Orion accompanies Superman on a mission to Apokolips to destroy the Alien Queen, despite the lack of sunlight on Apokolips weakening Superman's powers and Orion growing ever weaker from the embryo within him. Despite the odds, they manage to destroy the Queen. Darkseid subsequently uses his Omega Beams to destroy the embryo within Orion, claiming that Orion may be Darkseid's enemy, but he is also his son and it would be unfitting for him to die in such a dishonorable manner.
After Superman and Orion's departure, however, Darkseid reveals to DeSaad that, actually, Orion being infested was the central focus of his plan; with Orion having been given some evidence that Darkseid may still think of him as a son, his loyalties to New Genesis may become divided at some crucial future date.
As the comic ends, Darkseid and DeSaad look in at a room filled with facehugger-infected Parademons in stasis, hinting at a possible sequel.
Collected editions[edit]
The stories have been collected into trade paperbacks:
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- Superman/Aliens (144 pages, August 1996, Titan Books, ISBN1-85286-704-3, June 1996, Dark Horse Comics, ISBN1-56971-167-4)
- Superman/Aliens 2: God War (96 pages, August 2003, Titan Books, ISBN1-84023-720-1, July 2003, Dark Horse Comics, ISBN1-56971-963-2)
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- Superman Vs. Aliens at the Comic Book DB
- Superman / Aliens II: God War at the Comic Book DB
- ^K. Thor Jensen January 19, 2011 Follow (2011-01-19). 'Superman / Aliens - Universe-Shattering Comic Book Crossovers'. UGO.com. Archived from the original on December 9, 2012. Retrieved 2013-08-01.CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
- ^http://io9.com/5849075/the-10-most-deranged-alien-crossover-stories