ALIEN REBOOTED A Marketing Monster Awakens from Hypersleep

Dr Kerry Gough Birmingham School of Media

Dark Horse Comics: Extended Alien Universe

• Certainly not the first extension to the Alien narrative arc

Alien Origins

Lengthy genesis…

Alien (79)Aliens (86)Alien 3 (92)Alien Resurrection (97)

…extended play

AVP: Alien vs. Predator (04)Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem (07)

Prometheus (12)

H.R.Giger:Alien

MonsterVI

Alien Creations & the Importance of Design

Alien Underground

Extending the Alien Narrative

Prometheus returns to Alien story of the space jockey

Narrativises origins creation story Engineers as creators of mankind

To retell the original Alien story

New and improved

The Importance of Origins…

ALIEN REBOOTED A Marketing Monster Awakens from Hypersleep

Signing off…Dr Kerry Gough, Birmingham School of Media