The Wave’s Roar Uthaug | Norway’s Take on the Disaster Movie
“I’ve always been a fan of strong female characters, like in the Alien movies or the Terminator movies.”
Alien
Alien: The Illustrated Story (Titan Books)
The long out-of-print adaptation of Ridley Scott’s classic sci-fi film (by comics masters Archie Goodwin and Walter Simonson) finally returns to the comic shelf.
Paul Scanlon and Michael Gross | The Book of Alien; Lee Brimmicombe-Wood | Aliens: Colonial Marines Technical Manual (Titan Books)
To put it another way, they’re both nerds’ delight, but for different sets of nerds.
Prometheus (20th Century Fox, R)
The film suffers from what I’m going to call The George Lucas Effect.