Paul Mendoza

There's a ship cutting through space like a bullet, its crew a five-man surgical strike team with a single mission: Destroy Aliens! But when the crew members of the Nemesis land smack in the middle of a full-blown hive, they're not sure if it's the answer to their prayers or the beginning of a nightmare!

The Nemesis team hunts and destroys Alien hives: small, medium, or large. But Terminal 949 carried a crew of nearly a thousand people, and that makes it the biggest hive in history. It would be a touch-and-go situation even with a properly functioning Berserker unit, and their particular slaughter-machine has been showing some... problems... lately. No back-up, no cavalry, and no hope, but there's one slim chance they can make it out alive -- if they're willing to make the ultimate sacrifice!

The crew of space station Nemesis face off against the mother of all hives in a barrel-blazing, thermonuclear, blow-out bonanza! Their outer space paradise has been infested, and this issue they unload all they've got to make a clean sweep of the station. But the bugs apparently aren't the only problem in paradise: a traitor walks among them! Can they blow away the bugs and keep the knives out of their backs, or is paradise lost?

It's down to the wire now and with more casualties than firepower, the crew of the Nemesis find themselves hip deep in trouble and watching the next load coming! Their Berserker unit is a slug of cold, dead steel and their only hope lies in the direction they least expect. Don't miss this mile-a-minute, slash-and-burn finale to the most pyrokinetic Aliens adventure ever!

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!

Collects Aliens: Berserker (1995) #1-4, Aliens: Mondo Heat (1996), Aliens: Lovesick (1996), Aliens: Pig (1997), Aliens Special (1997), Aliens: Havoc (1997) #1-2, Aliens: Purge (1997), Aliens: Alchemy (1997) #1-3, Alien: Resurrection (1997) #1-2, Aliens: Kidnapped (1997) #1-3, Aliens: Survival (1998) #1-3, Aliens: Glass Corridor (1998), Aliens: Stalker (1998), Aliens: Wraith (1998), Aliens Apocalypse: The Destroying Angels (1999 Dark Horse) #1-4, Aliens: Xenogenesis (1999) #1-4 and Aliens (2009 Dark Horse) #1-4 - plus material from Dark Horse Comics (1992-1994) #22-24; Dark Horse Presents (1986) #101-102, 117, 121, and 140 and ANNUAL 1997; A Decade of Dark Horse Comics (1996) #3 and Aliens/Predator (2009) FCBD. More tales of Alien horror! A team of soldiers must reclaim an overrun space station! Bug hunter extraordinaire Herk Mondo returns! Can pirates defeat Aliens with...a pig? An Alien stalks a religious settlement with a dark secret! A contaminated xenomorph egg spreads disease and death! A surveyor must determine if an Alien attack is real, or all in his head! A rescue specialist investigates the Aliens' past! Will a new strikeforce give mankind a fighting chance? And what lurks in a massive and ancient necropolis? Plus: a special jam story with more than forty amazing artists!

Working closely with the artist, sculptor Paul Mendoza has rendered Barlow's original artwork with remarkable fidelity. The Decurion bust is based on the cover illustration on the Barlowe portfolio Brushfire which is considered the central piece in Barlowe's masterful Inferno series.