Alien: The Illustrated Story #[nn]

Heavy Metal's adaptation of Twentieth Century-Fox's sci-fi film *Alien* arrives in illustrated form courtesy of Archie Goodwin and Walter Simonson, and the cover sets an immediately unsettling tone: a battered spacecraft drifts through deep space, its hull ensnared by sinuous green tendrils that curl and creep across its surface like something very much alive. Simonson's linework gives the ship a convincing industrial weight while those organic, reaching filaments hint at the creeping dread at the heart of the story. For fans of the 1979 film looking to experience it through the comics medium, this Heavy Metal presentation is a genuinely compelling artifact of the moment.