Aliens: Defiance

In the wake of the Aliens film saga, Brian Wood and a team of artists including Eduardo Francisco and Tristan Jones brought a new military-perspective horror to Dark Horse's 2016–2017 series Aliens: Defiance. Over 12 issues, the story follows a colonial marine squad facing a xenomorph outbreak on a remote world, with Chris Warner and Melissa Lomax contributing to the writing that balanced tactical tension with visceral creature terror. It stands as a solid, self-contained addition to the franchise's comic legacy, offering a focused, character-driven survival narrative that fans of the original films will appreciate.