Nukes and Knives™: The Crazy World of Alien, Predator and Friends

Miscellany

The Blackout (2009) vs Speargun projectile - Predator 2 (1990)

Maybe it's my imagination, but I also see pagan deity Baphomet within poster.

Prey (2022) vs Predator - issue 1 (June 1989)

Also.

Aliens vs. Predator - issue 4 (December 1990)

Check this out.

Hell-Hound - Predators (2010) vs Kurn - Aliens versus Predator: Extinction (2003)

(Frowns).

Aliens: Colonial Marines (2013) is set 17 weeks after Aliens (1986) and was a pile of FUCKING shit.

Cover art (detail) vs Aliens: Colonial Marines - No Man Left Behind (July 2012)

One-shot served as a tie-in to game.

But...

Aliens: Colonial Marines - issue 1 (January 1993)

Despite name, series is completely unrelated to the above.

Personal best

Turning up the volume.

Angela Stone's evolution

Prometheus: Fire and Stone (September-December 2014)

Predator: Fire and Stone (October 2014-January 2015)

Skipping to the end of story arc.

Prometheus: Fire and Stone Omega (February 2015) vs Lara Croft - Tomb Raider (2013)

WHY?

Aliens - issue 2 (September 1988)
I'm blind --- but I finally see.

Seems random, right?

Raging Bull (1980)

So, for the second time, [the Pharisees] summoned the man who had been blind and said:

"Speak the truth before God.

We know this fellow is a sinner."

"Whether or not he is a sinner, I do not know,"

the man replied.

"All I know is this:

once I was blind and now I can see."

John IX, 24-26

the New English Bible

Remembering Haig P. Manoogian, teacher.

May 23, 1916-May 26, 1980

With Love and resolution, Marty.

Martin Scorsese was one of film professor's students at New York University.

He died before biopic was released.

The Game (1997)

New Member Ted: "Whereas once I was blind, now I can see."

Project Firestart (1989)

Resident Evil popularised genre, but C64 classic was the first true example of survival horror.

S.S.F. Research Vessel 'The Prometheus'

23 years later, Ridley Scott would direct a certain prequel named after titular spaceship.

Prometheus

Whether this was intentional remains unknown.

Boss Stranger - Parasite Eve II (1999) vs Newborn - Alien: Resurrection (1997)

How deliciously bizarre.

H.R. Giger working on Alien in 1977.

Filmmakers didn't give him any credit and here's the meat of angry letter he sent to Fox.

"The creatures in Alien: Resurrection are even closer to my original Alien designs than the ones which appear in Aliens and Alien³. As for those responsible in this conspiracy: all I can wish them is an Alien breeding inside their chests, which might just remind them that the 'Alien Father' is H.R. Giger."

Queen (born from extra-terrestrial) - Aliens: Earth Angel (August 1994) vs Berserker - Nightbreed (1990)

Bulbous heads sure look alike don't they?

King Shark ripping soldier in half - The Suicide Squad (2021) vs Xenomorph doing the same to Baal - Aliens: Apocalypse - The Destroying Angels - issue 1 (January 1999)