Aliens vs. Predator: Lefty's Revenge: Comic Overview
Aliens vs. Predator: Lefty's Revenge is an eight-page story in Aliens vs. Predator Annual #1, written by Brian McDonald and penciled by Pop Mhan. The annual is dated July 7, 1999. A smuggler boarded the Outpost for ship parts and found the station full of Xenomorphs. A Yautja hunter she called Lefty had followed her there. Near the end she threw him his wrist nuke and expected him to use it. He did not use it. The charge did not go off, and in orbit she decided he had gotten away.
Plot Summary
The Outpost
The Outpost was a station where people like the smuggler sold stolen technology out of the company's sight. She had come for ammo and parts for her ship, and she did not mean to stay. Someone on the station had tried to sell Xenomorphs on the black market, and that deal had failed. Everyone aboard was dead. A hunter she called Lefty had followed her from world to world, and she had not lost him. Her motion tracker was quiet, and she did not trust the quiet.
The Attack
Four adult Xenomorphs came at her in the corridors of the Outpost, all of them in plain sight. She read a count that high as a bad sign, because the ones she could see meant the station held more. She shot the creatures at the doors, lost the last of the four, and that one pinned her on the floor with the gun out of her hand.
The Rescue
The hunter she called Lefty came through the Xenomorphs that had her pinned. He killed the one on her with a disc, and acid from that Xenomorph damaged the disc. The creatures on her were no match for him. He had saved her after she had cheated him in the past. She asked whether he had let an old injury to an eye go. He answered in his own language, and she let the question drop. She made herself stop moving, breathing, and blinking. Another rush of Xenomorphs broke that pause, and the two of them fought the creatures side by side.
The Ship
They fought a way toward her ship, and she fired into the Xenomorphs crowded around Lefty. She ran ahead, then went back when the swarm closed over him. She found his wrist nuke, a device from an older quarrel between them, threw it to him, and expected him to use it, but he did not. He answered in his own language, and she left him there.
Orbit
She expected the wrist nuke she had thrown him to destroy the Outpost within seconds of her launch. He did not use it, and the blast never came. Her ship was in orbit, closer to the station than she had meant to be. She decided Lefty had gotten away and would come after her again. She was short a wrist nuke after that, and she took the escape for a sneaky one.
Key Characters
- The smuggler is not named. She came to the Outpost for ammo and parts for her ship, fought the Xenomorphs until Lefty pulled her out, and threw him his wrist nuke on the way out. He did not use it, and she left in orbit.
- Lefty is the Yautja who had hunted her from world to world over an old injury to an eye. He cut through the Xenomorphs on the Outpost. She threw him his wrist nuke, he did not use it, and she decided he had gotten away.
Editions
Dark Horse Comics published Aliens vs. Predator: Lefty's Revenge in full color, as an eight-page story in Aliens vs. Predator Annual #1, dated July 7, 1999. Brian McDonald wrote it. Pop Mhan penciled it, Norman Lee inked it, Guy Major colored it, and Clem Robins lettered it. Hughes Labiano drew the title illustration, and Dave Stewart colored that painting. Philip Amara edited the annual, and Jeremy Perkins designed it. The story was later reprinted in Aliens vs. Predator Omnibus Volume 2.
Behind The Scenes
Hughes Labiano drew the title illustration for Lefty's Revenge, and Dave Stewart colored that painting, separate from Pop Mhan's story pages. Norman Lee inked those pages, and Guy Major colored them. The story was one of five in the annual, with Hell-Bent, Pursuit, Old Secrets, and Chained to Life and Death.
Conclusion
Aliens vs. Predator: Lefty's Revenge is Brian McDonald's 1999 Dark Horse story, penciled by Pop Mhan. It follows a smuggler from the dead station called the Outpost through a fight beside the hunter Lefty, and it ends in orbit. She threw him his wrist nuke, he did not use it, and he was free to come after her again.
External Sources
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