Alien Comics: Xenomorph Stories And Crossovers
This category collects Alien comic articles, including story overviews, Marvel crossover entries, Dark Horse-era background, and lore profiles tied to the comics. Alien comics have expanded the Xenomorph far beyond the films, introducing homeworld expeditions, Earth invasions, experimental mutations, and battles against heroes such as Batman, Superman, and the Avengers in Aliens vs. Avengers and Captain America in Alien vs. Captain America, along with alternate film timelines such as Aliens: What If?, the Remus massacre before Alien: Romulus, the Sevastopol outbreak before Alien: Isolation, resort-world survival horror in Alien: Paradiso, anthology shorts in Alien: Black, White & Blood, and Steel Team's mission on Tobler-9 in Alien: Icarus. For a ranked buying and reading guide, start with the best Alien comics list.
Alien vs. X-Men: Wolverine Gets His Second Xenomorph War
Alien vs. X-Men is a Marvel Comics crossover, launched in September 2026, that sends the X-Men against Xenomorphs after a Phoenix egg mission goes wrong. The series follows Aliens vs. Avengers and features Kieron Gillen, Geraldo Borges, and a Chris Claremont backup story with the Brood.
By Janno Vares June 28, 2026 Alien Comics | Alien And Predator Crossovers | News
Alien vs. Captain America: Marvel Comic Overview
Alien vs. Captain America was a Marvel crossover comic set during World War II in which Hydra discovered Xenomorph eggs in the Himalayas and turned the species into a secret weapon. Captain America and his allies fought to stop Operation Red King before D-Day.
By Janno Vares June 19, 2026 Alien Comics | Alien And Predator Crossovers | Alien Merchandise
Alien: Romulus Prequel Comic: Remus Massacre Explained
Marvel's Alien: Romulus one-shot revealed the station massacre that emptied Renaissance before Rain's crew arrived. Written with Fede Álvarez and Rodo Sayagues, it followed Rook, Hyla, and Adrian as XX121 broke cryo stasis and turned Remus into a graveyard.
By Janno Vares August 06, 2026 Alien Comics | Alien Merchandise | Alien Romulus Lore
Aliens: What If?: Marvel Comic Overview
Aliens: What If? was a Marvel comic that explored an alternate branch of the Alien film timeline in which Carter Burke survived the events of Aliens. Co-written by Paul Reiser, the story followed Burke's escape from LV-426, and his later schemes with his daughter Brie.
By Janno Vares June 19, 2026 Alien Comics | Alien Merchandise
Aliens vs. Avengers: Marvel Comic Overview
Aliens vs. Avengers was a Marvel crossover comic that followed the surviving Avengers in a dystopian future where David synthetics unleashed Xenomorphs on Earth. The story brought the Engineers, Mister Sinister, Tony Stark, and the Venom symbiote into humanity's last stand.
By Janno Vares June 19, 2026 Alien Comics | Alien And Predator Crossovers | Alien Merchandise
Alien: Paradiso: Marvel Comic Overview
Alien: Paradiso was a Marvel comic set on a tropical resort world where Colonial Marshals went undercover to arrest smuggler Ricky Valentine, only for the Arrow of Gold cartel to unleash Xenomorphs across the island during a communication blackout.
By Janno Vares June 19, 2026 Alien Comics | Alien Merchandise
Alien: Black, White & Blood: Marvel Comic Overview
Alien: Black, White & Blood was a Marvel anthology comic published in 2024 with black, white, and red artwork. Its main serial, Utopia, followed generations aboard the pacifist colony ship Forward as a Xenomorph outbreak forced the crew to abandon their ideals.
By Janno Vares June 19, 2026 Alien Comics | Alien Merchandise
Alien: Icarus: Marvel Comic Overview
Alien: Icarus was a Marvel comic published in 2022 and 2023 in which the synthetic Steel Team infiltrated the ruined Weyland-Yutani world Tobler-9 to recover biotechnology that could shield colonies from radiation after a reactor meltdown on Demeter-2.
By Janno Vares June 19, 2026 Alien Comics | Alien Merchandise
Aliens: Aftermath: Plot, Characters & Lore
Aliens: Aftermath is Marvel's July 2021 one-shot by Benjamin Percy and Dave Wachter. Renegade XM landed on LV-426 in 2214, searched the ruins of Hadley's Hope, and met an irradiated Xenomorph while recovering a cryostasis colonist called Subject Zero.
By Janno Vares October 28, 2026 Alien Comics | Alien Merchandise
Aliens: Rescue: Plot, Characters & Lore
Aliens: Rescue is Dark Horse's 2019 four-issue miniseries by Brian Wood, Kieran McKeown, and JL Straw. Alec Brand, now a Colonial Marine, joined Amanda Ripley and Zula Hendricks on a classified world, where they brought down a hive vault of eggs. On Earth, a hearing was told the mission had found nothing.
By Janno Vares November 01, 2026 Alien Comics | Alien Merchandise
Aliens: Resistance: Plot, Characters & Lore
Aliens: Resistance is Dark Horse's 2019 four-issue miniseries by Brian Wood and Robert Carey. Amanda Ripley and Zula Hendricks traced the colony ship Gaspar to a classified moon, where eleven hundred colonists were used as hosts, and left when Davis detonated the blacksite failsafe.
By Janno Vares November 01, 2026 Alien Comics | Alien Merchandise
Aliens/Vampirella: Plot, Characters & Lore
Aliens/Vampirella is a 2015 to 2016 Dynamite crossover by Corinna Bechko and Javier García-Miranda. Vampirella studied Nosferatu ruins beneath Mars Colony One, survived a Chestburster, and fought the winged Queen that grew from it beside Lars and an awakened Nosferatu.
By Janno Vares October 09, 2026 Alien Comics | Alien And Predator Crossovers
Alien: Isolation Prequel Comic: Sevastopol Outbreak Explained
Dark Horse's Alien: Isolation one-shot was a free 2014 convention comic by Dan Abnett and Dion Lay. Set in 2137 on Sevastopol Station, it followed Marshal Waits, civilian Clark, and Anesidora crewman Meeks as the Xenomorph tore the station apart before Amanda Ripley arrived.
By Janno Vares August 06, 2026 Alien Comics | Alien Merchandise
Buffy: In Space No One Can Hear You Slay
In Space No One Can Hear You Slay! is an eight-page Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 9 short from Dark Horse's 2012 Free Comic Book Day issue. On a vacation aboard Spike's ship of talking insects, Buffy hunted a sired bug-pire that looked like a Xenomorph and burned it with starlight.
By Janno Vares October 13, 2026 Alien Comics | Alien And Predator Crossovers
Batman/Aliens 2: Gotham Hybrids & Arkham Horror
Batman/Aliens II is a three-issue DC and Dark Horse crossover by Ian Edginton and Staz Johnson. A white Xenomorph sealed under Gotham City since a 1928 Antarctic expedition broke loose, and Batman uncovered Dr. Catherine Fortune's plan to grow soldiers from Alien biomatter and the DNA of Arkham Asylum's inmates.
By Janno Vares October 12, 2026 Alien Comics | Alien And Predator Crossovers
Superman vs. Aliens II: God War: Plot, Characters & Lore
Superman vs. Aliens II: God War is a 2002 DC and Dark Horse crossover in which Darkseid infested his Parademons with Xenomorphs to invade New Genesis and Superman followed an infected Orion into the Queen's hive on Apokolips.
By Janno Vares October 13, 2026 Alien Comics | Alien And Predator Crossovers
Judge Dredd vs. Aliens: Incubus
Judge Dredd vs. Aliens: Incubus is a 2002 to 2003 crossover by John Wagner, Andy Diggle, and Henry Flint. Mr. Bones bred a Xenomorph hive under Mega-City One and loosed it on the Grand Hall of Justice, and Dredd went down into the Undercity to face the Queen.
By Janno Vares October 09, 2026 Alien Comics | Alien And Predator Crossovers
Green Lantern vs. Aliens: Plot, Characters & Lore
Green Lantern vs. Aliens is a 2000 Dark Horse and DC crossover by Ron Marz and Rick Leonardi. Hal Jordan moved a Xenomorph hive to the living planet Mogo instead of destroying it, and ten years later Kyle Rayner lost his ring in the same hive while rescuing a crashed freighter crew.
By Janno Vares October 11, 2026 Alien Comics | Alien And Predator Crossovers
WildC.A.T.s/Aliens: Plot, Characters & Lore
WildC.A.T.s/Aliens is a 1998 Image and Dark Horse one-shot by Warren Ellis, Chris Sprouse, and Kevin Nowlan. Xenomorphs from an alien vessel overran Stormwatch's orbital station Skywatch, and the WildC.A.T.s teleported aboard to rescue the last survivors before Winter flew the station into the Sun.
By Janno Vares October 11, 2026 Alien Comics | Alien And Predator Crossovers
Aliens: Wraith: Comic Overview, Plot & Lore
Aliens: Wraith is Jay Stephens and Eduardo Risso's July 1998 Dark Horse one-shot. On the Chigusa agri-colony Tirgu-Mires, Roark and Hope follow a cave legend to a pale Xenomorph. The creature drives them into a chemical pool, Colonial Marines kill the witnesses, and a squad enters the buried derelict.
By Janno Vares September 26, 2026 Alien Comics | Alien Merchandise
Batman/Aliens: Plot, Characters & Lore
Batman/Aliens is a 1997 two-issue DC and Dark Horse crossover by Ron Marz and Bernie Wrightson. Searching the jungle near the Mexico-Guatemala border for a missing Wayne Tech geologist, Batman joined a covert American team at a crashed alien ship and fought the Xenomorphs hidden in the ruins nearby.
By Janno Vares October 12, 2026 Alien Comics | Alien And Predator Crossovers
Aliens: Pig: Comic Guide
Aliens: Pig is Chuck Dixon and Flint Henry's March 1997 Dark Horse one-shot. Stitch's crew fitted a nuclear charge to the pig Porkchop and sent it into the Xenomorph hive at the ore tug Wanderer. The remote failed, Dumphy carried a second charge down, and Porkchop's blast destroyed their ship.
By Janno Vares September 26, 2026 Alien Comics | Alien Merchandise
Superman vs. Aliens: Comic Plot, Characters & Lore
Superman vs. Aliens is a 1995 DC and Dark Horse crossover in which a powerless Superman followed a Kryptonian distress call to Argo City and fought a Xenomorph hive beside a girl named Kara while carrying a Queen embryo.
By Janno Vares October 13, 2026 Alien Comics | Alien And Predator Crossovers
Aliens: Earth Angel: Plot, Characters & Lore
Aliens: Earth Angel is John Byrne's 1994 Dark Horse one-shot. Matt and Lou Ann dragged a crashed ship's alien pilot to Dr. Daniel Ripley, a facehugger killed the pilot, and the chestburster grew into a Queen that nested among a biker gang until Ripley and the survivors burned the eggs.
By Janno Vares September 25, 2026 Alien Comics | Alien Merchandise
Aliens: Newt's Tale: Comic Plot, Characters & Lore
Aliens: Newt's Tale is Mike Richardson's 1992 Dark Horse comic, drawn by Jim Somerville with covers by John Bolton. Newt dreams on the Sulaco through the fall of Hadley's Hope, from Russ Jorden's death in Medlab to the Queen ejected from the airlock.
By Janno Vares September 25, 2026 Alien Comics | Alien Merchandise
Alien: The Illustrated Story: Comic Guide
Alien: The Illustrated Story is Archie Goodwin and Walter Simonson's 1979 Heavy Metal graphic novel of Alien. Charles Lippincott edited it, Simonson penciled and inked the 64 pages, and the book was the first graphic novel on the New York Times bestseller list.
By Janno Vares September 26, 2026 Alien Comics | Alien Merchandise
Cutter Vasquez: Origins & Final Fate Of Jenette's Nephew
Cutter Vasquez, Jenette Vasquez's nephew, led Renegade XM in Marvel's Aliens: Aftermath, sabotaging Weyland-Yutani's Midland fuelling station live on air, raiding Hadley's Hope for her smartgun, refusing Ms. Yutani's buyout, and dying beside an irradiated Xenomorph.
By Janno Vares October 28, 2026 Alien Universe Characters | Vasquez Family | Alien Comics
Herk Mondo: Mondo Pest Exterminator In Fireteam 2
Herk Mondo was the one-man Xenomorph exterminator behind Mondo Pest in Dark Horse's Aliens: Mondo Pest and Mondo Heat. He lost a hand on Colony Oryza, took a prosthetic to Gimeno, and returned in Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2 as Herk Mondo's Pest Pack.
By Janno Vares September 08, 2026 Alien Universe Characters | Xenomorph Encounter Survivors | Alien Comics
