Doug Mahnke

On an apparently routine supply run, Philip and Joy Strunk deliver a shipment of synthetic photoreceptors to Caspar Nordling, a biotechnologist for Grant Corporation. When the Strunks find out that Nordling's experiments have exceeded Stanislaw Mayakovsky's work (as seen in Aliens: Hive), they realize that there's more to Nordling -- and Aliens -- than meets the eye. No one will want to miss this off-beat, high-action thriller from the writer/artist team that brought you The Mask and The Mask Returns!

After watching Caspar Nordling conduct nearly sadistic experiments on an Alien chestburster, Philip and Joy Strunk question Nordling's motivations, and consider bringing the scientist up on charges. But will Nordling's synthetic Alien allow them to do it? The suspense mounts!

When you mix the fierce intensity of the Aliens with the twisted minds of John Arcudi and Doug Mahnke, the team currently responsible for the lunacy of The Mask, you can expect that all of the questions you were ever afraid to ask would finally be answered! Can an Alien truly appreciate a hand-rolled, long-filler Cuban cigar? Now you'll know!

Rebellious androids, secret investigators, and escaped xenomorphs! It looks as though Casper Nordling's perfect world is about to collapse, but Nordling may still have an ugly trick up his sleeve.

On an apparently routine supply run, Philip and Joy Strunk deliver a shipment of synthetic photo receptors to Caspar Nordling, biotechnologist for Grant Corporation. When the Strunks discover that Nordling's experiments have exceeded Stanislaw Mayakovsky's work (as seen in Aliens: Hive), they realize that there's more to Nordling -- and the Aliens -- than meets the eye.

Collects Aliens: Colonial Marines (1993) #1-10, Aliens: Rogue (1993) #1-4, Aliens: Labyrinth (1993) #1-4, Aliens: Salvation (1993), Aliens: Music of the Spears (1994) #1-4, Aliens: Stronghold (1994) #1-4; material from Dark Horse Comics (1992) #3-5, 11-13, 15-19; Previews (1993) #1-12; Previews (1994) #1; and Aliens Magazine (1992, UK) #9-20. Explore new worlds of terror! A rogue scientist's genetic experiments create a horrific new alien king! A ragtag unit of Colonial Marines battles a xenomorph infestation on a space station - and the survivors face a pack of bizarre hybrids! An investigator must solve a murder on a deep-space alien-research station! But what dread music will a deranged composer make with an alien's screams? And can a synthetic xenomorph rebel against its sadistic creator? Plus: Flash back to an alien attack in the 1950s! And witness the fate of England as aliens overrun the Earth!

Collects Aliens: Colonial Marines (1993) #1-10, Aliens: Rogue (1993) #1-4, Aliens: Labyrinth (1993) #1-4, Aliens: Salvation (1993), Aliens: Music of the Spears (1994) #1-4, Aliens: Stronghold (1994) #1-4; material from Dark Horse Comics (1992) #3-5, 11-13, 15-19; Previews (1993) #1-12; Previews (1994) #1; and Aliens Magazine (1992, UK) #9-20. Explore new worlds of terror! A rogue scientist's genetic experiments create a horrific new alien king! A ragtag unit of Colonial Marines battles a xenomorph infestation on a space station - and the survivors face a pack of bizarre hybrids! An investigator must solve a murder on a deep-space alien-research station! But what dread music will a deranged composer make with an alien's screams? And can a synthetic xenomorph rebel against its sadistic creator? Plus: Flash back to an alien attack in the 1950s! And witness the fate of England as aliens overrun the Earth!

Life on the streets of Arcadia is rough enough, but under the streets, it's rougher than anyone could imagine -- anyone human, that is! But the sewers are home to rats, refuse, renegades, and a monster... a monster of limitless strength and all-consuming anger... a monster who swats bullets away like mosquitoes and tosses two-hundred-pound men aside like bags of garbage. It doesn't mean to split the bags apart... usually. Just don't make the monster mad.

Subtly altered, horribly mutated, or crazy, the inmates of Block 13 are all victims of accidents or government-sponsored experiments at Cinnabar Flats U.S. Army Research Center -- imprisoned without trial in a facility that gives a whole new meaning to the term "maximum security." Only three individuals have ever escaped from Block 13, and now they're back to help those unfortunates still held there. But when the other-worldly Seekers launch an attack on the base, Frank Lamb and the other members of Division 13 find that their crusade may turn out to be a suicide mission!

Subtly altered, horribly mutated, or crazy, the inmates of Block 13 are all victims of accidents or government-sponsored experiments at Cinnabar Flats U.S. Army Research Center -- imprisoned without trial in a facility that gives a whole new meaning to the term "maximum security." Only three individuals have ever escaped from Block 13, and now they're back to help those unfortunates still held there. But when the other-worldly Seekers launch an attack on the base, Frank Lamb and the other members of Division 13 find that their crusade may turn out to be a suicide mission!

Subtly altered, horribly mutated, or crazy, the inmates of Block 13 are all victims of accidents or government-sponsored experiments at Cinnabar Flats U.S. Army Research Center -- imprisoned without trial in a facility that gives a whole new meaning to the term "maximum security." Only three individuals have ever escaped from Block 13, and now they're back to help those unfortunates still held there. But when the other-worldly Seekers launch an attack on the base, Frank Lamb and the other members of Division 13 find that their crusade may turn out to be a suicide mission!

Subtly altered, horribly mutated, or crazy, the inmates of Block 13 are all victims of accidents or government-sponsored experiments at Cinnabar Flats U.S. Army Research Center -- imprisoned without trial in a facility that gives a whole new meaning to the term "maximum security." Only three individuals have ever escaped from Block 13, and now they're back to help those unfortunates still held there. But when the other-worldly Seekers launch an attack on the base, Frank Lamb and the other members of Division 13 find that their crusade may turn out to be a suicide mission!

Lou Martin's just gained incredible superpowers! Too bad all he wants to do is stay firmly planted on the couch. But an alien got Lewis Martin, slacker extraordinaire, and Martin Lewis, promising young lawyer, confused and sent an Extreme Enhancement Module to the wrong guy, and now Lou's got superheroes trying to get him to . . . ugh . . . contribute to society--and outlandish supervillains, monsters, and aliens are out to take him down! * Created by John Arcudi (B.P.R.D., The Mask, A God Somewhere) and Doug Mahnke (The Mask, Final Crisis, Green Lantern). * Major Bummer collects all fifteen issues, long out of print and collected here for the very first time!