Anina Bennett

Collects Aliens (1988 1st Printing) #1-6, Aliens (1989) 1st Printing #1-4, Aliens: Earth War (1990) #1-4 and material from Dark Horse Presents (1986-2000) #24 and 42-43. Written by Mark A. Nelson, Mark Verheiden, Paul Guinan, and Anina Bennett. Art by Mark A. Nelson, Paul Guinan, Ron Randall, Denis Beauvais, Roger Casselman, and Sam Keith. Cover by Denis Beauvais. Back Cover by Mark A. Nelson and Jim Bradrick. The galaxy's most terrifying creatures are coming for Earth! Years after the first two Aliens films, a Xenomorph attack in space leads the Colonial Marines to take action. Soon, the badly scarred Hicks and the now-grown Newt find themselves swept up in a dangerous mission to locate and destroy the creatures' homeworld! But when Earth itself is overrun by a Xenomorph outbreak, Hicks and Newt must join a renegade group fighting to reclaim the planet. Can an obsessed military man train Aliens to wipe out their own kind? And can an old friend help Hicks and Newt turn the tide - by capturing an Alien Queen Mother? Plus: An outer-space treasure hunt becomes a battle for survival when Aliens attack!

Collects Aliens (1988 1st Printing) #1-6; Aliens (1989) 1st Printing #1-4; Aliens: Earth War (1990) #1-4; Aliens: Genocide (1991) #1-4; Aliens: Hive (1992) #1-4; Aliens Tribes HC (1992 Dark Horse); Aliens: Newts Tale (1992) #1-2; Alien 3 (2018 Dark Horse) #1-3; Aliens Colonial Marines (1993) #1-10, and material from Dark Horse Insider Vol. 1 (1989-1991) #14-27 and Dark Horse Presents (1986-2000) #24, 42-43, and 56 and Dark Horse Presents Fifth Anniversary Special TPB (1991 Dark Horse). As Marvel prepares for a xenomorph invasion, rediscover the comic book legacy of ALIENS! Familiar faces star in tales that expand on the movie mythos! As Hicks and Newt undertake a dangerous mission to destroy the creatures' homeworld, a deadly outbreak leaves Earth overrun with aliens! Billionaire Daniel Grant sets his sights on an alien queen, and scientist Stanislaw Mayakovsky must retrieve the galaxy's most precious substance: alien royal jelly! But can even Earth's finest fighting force, the Colonial Marines, hold off the most frightening and relentless creatures in all of film?

Collects Aliens (1988 1st Printing) #1-6; Aliens (1989) 1st Printing #1-4; Aliens: Earth War (1990) #1-4; Aliens: Genocide (1991) #1-4; Aliens: Hive (1992) #1-4; Aliens Tribes HC (1992 Dark Horse); Aliens: Newts Tale (1992) #1-2; Alien 3 (2018 Dark Horse) #1-3; Aliens Colonial Marines (1993) #1-10, and material from Dark Horse Insider Vol. 1 (1989-1991) #14-27 and Dark Horse Presents (1986-2000) #24, 42-43, and 56 and Dark Horse Presents Fifth Anniversary Special TPB (1991 Dark Horse). As Marvel prepares for a xenomorph invasion, rediscover the comic book legacy of ALIENS! Familiar faces star in tales that expand on the movie mythos! As Hicks and Newt undertake a dangerous mission to destroy the creatures' homeworld, a deadly outbreak leaves Earth overrun with aliens! Billionaire Daniel Grant sets his sights on an alien queen, and scientist Stanislaw Mayakovsky must retrieve the galaxy's most precious substance: alien royal jelly! But can even Earth's finest fighting force, the Colonial Marines, hold off the most frightening and relentless creatures in all of film?

Therese Sorenson is dead. Before that, she was what you might call "too smart for her own good" -- smart enough to create a genetic retrovirus that can rewrite living DNA, and smart enough to know that in the wrong hands, her retrovirus could be used as a deadly weapon. In this case, those "wrong hands" belong to Therese's ex-employer, the Biovoc corporation. Rather than let Biovoc get a grip on the retrovirus, Therese and her cloned assistants took their own lives by blowing up their lab. But even that might not have done the trick, since Therese left behind an errant android containing a prototype of the retrovirus. Now it's up to her only surviving clones -- Queenie of the Heartbreakers and former lab assistant Vector -- to carry on their dead boss' kamikaze mission by keeping the retrovirus away from Biovoc. Welcome to the near-future adventures of the Heartbreakers, at long last starring in their own miniseries after making nine appearances in DHP over the last seven years!

Masterless, mercenary, hell-bent on destruction -- that's Queenie for you, always living in the moment! And living in the moment is about all she can hope for when Biovoc sends the clone-killer Rusk to bring her in. Biovoc wants to start exploiting a stolen genetic "virus" without interference from Queenie and company. Rusk wants revenge on Queenie and her sister clone, Vector. Queenie wants to stay alive just long enough to thwart Biovoc and enjoy her newfound romance for a while . . . yes, romance!

Last month, a group of clones volunteered to be transformed by the Paracelsus Matrix, the genetic retrovirus everyone's after. This month, witness the results: a whole new squad of Heartbreakers based on Queenie's DNA and the memories of her original Club Squad! While Tex is busy training these "newborn" soldiers, Queenie heads off to negotiate an arms deal -- but unbeknownst to her, she's also headed for a final showdown with Biovoc agent Rusk!

The plan was for the new Heartbreakers to help retrieve that pesky genetic virus, the Paracelsus Matrix, from Biovoc's corporate clutches. But then Queenie went and got captured, so now they've gotta rescue her before she becomes the next experimental subject for the Matrix! Will Club Squad's first mission turn out to be their last? Will Queenie live to fight another day? It's all-out action (along with some quiet reflection) in the happenin' Heartbreakers tradition as these questions and more are answered!