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WildC.A.T.s/Aliens
Release Date: August 1998
Written by Warren Ellis
Pencilled by Chris Sprouse
Inked by Kevin Nowlan
Coloured by Laura DePuy
Lettered by Bill Oakley
Edited by Scott Dunbier
Cover by Chris Sprouse & Kevin Nowlan
Variant Cover by Gil Kane & Kevin Nowlan
Solicitation:
A crossover with teeth! Something sinister has invaded SKYWATCH, the StormWatch orbiting platform, and then... silence. There are five hundred people on board, including seven superhumans. SkyWatch has raised its impenetrable Storm Door force-fields in a desperate attempt to quarantine itself. Now someone has to get these people out before it¹s too late. The WildC.A.T.s, using Void¹s teleportation powers, are the only ones who can get in an mop up‹ But can they get out? NOTICE: Events occur in this book that will have MAJOR LASTING effects on the WildStorm Universe!
SPOILERS BEYOND THIS POINT!
Synopsis:
The story opens with a Stormwatch escape pod, containing a scarred Flint, crash landing in New York City. The resulting rescue, retrieval and debriefing are witnessed by Grifter and Void. Upon hearing Flints description of the aliens, Grifter mistakenly believes the creatures to be Daemonite and quickly gathers up the original WildC.A.T.s team sans Voodoo for a rescue mission to the Stormwatch space station, Skywatch II.
Void teleports the team to the station where they quickly uncover a video log and security tapes depicting the events that led up to the alien attack. A mysterious asteroid was passing nearby and a Stormwatch science team was dispatched to take surface samples and to plant explosives that redirect it into the sun. Skywatch lost contact with the team but their ships automatically returned to Skywatch. They quickly found themselves out of their depths and dealing with an unknown xenomorph. The Aliens ripped through the stations slaughtering and infecting the majority of the crew. The Stormwatch superhuman team attempted to fight them off but were ultimately wiped out, yet there were indications of a small group of survivors hidden away on the satellite.
After watching the footage to WildC.A.T.s continue to look for the survivors, eventually finding them hidden their cryogenic lock down section. The survivors included Jackson King, Christine Trelane, Winter and 96 crew members. With help of Void, most of the crew and all of the WildC.A.T.s escaped, injured but alive. Winter, however, stayed behind to pilot the station into the sun, ensuring that the xenomorphs weren't able to spread to the Earth.
Notes:
Sources:
 Cover by Chris Sprouse & Kevin Nowlan |
 Variant cover by Gil Kane & Kevin Nowlan |
Written by Warren Ellis
Pencilled by Chris Sprouse
Inked by Kevin Nowlan
Coloured by Laura DePuy
Lettered by Bill Oakley
Edited by Scott Dunbier
Cover by Chris Sprouse & Kevin Nowlan
Variant Cover by Gil Kane & Kevin Nowlan
Solicitation:
A crossover with teeth! Something sinister has invaded SKYWATCH, the StormWatch orbiting platform, and then... silence. There are five hundred people on board, including seven superhumans. SkyWatch has raised its impenetrable Storm Door force-fields in a desperate attempt to quarantine itself. Now someone has to get these people out before it¹s too late. The WildC.A.T.s, using Void¹s teleportation powers, are the only ones who can get in an mop up‹ But can they get out? NOTICE: Events occur in this book that will have MAJOR LASTING effects on the WildStorm Universe!
SPOILERS BEYOND THIS POINT!
Synopsis:
The story opens with a Stormwatch escape pod, containing a scarred Flint, crash landing in New York City. The resulting rescue, retrieval and debriefing are witnessed by Grifter and Void. Upon hearing Flints description of the aliens, Grifter mistakenly believes the creatures to be Daemonite and quickly gathers up the original WildC.A.T.s team sans Voodoo for a rescue mission to the Stormwatch space station, Skywatch II.
Void teleports the team to the station where they quickly uncover a video log and security tapes depicting the events that led up to the alien attack. A mysterious asteroid was passing nearby and a Stormwatch science team was dispatched to take surface samples and to plant explosives that redirect it into the sun. Skywatch lost contact with the team but their ships automatically returned to Skywatch. They quickly found themselves out of their depths and dealing with an unknown xenomorph. The Aliens ripped through the stations slaughtering and infecting the majority of the crew. The Stormwatch superhuman team attempted to fight them off but were ultimately wiped out, yet there were indications of a small group of survivors hidden away on the satellite.
After watching the footage to WildC.A.T.s continue to look for the survivors, eventually finding them hidden their cryogenic lock down section. The survivors included Jackson King, Christine Trelane, Winter and 96 crew members. With help of Void, most of the crew and all of the WildC.A.T.s escaped, injured but alive. Winter, however, stayed behind to pilot the station into the sun, ensuring that the xenomorphs weren't able to spread to the Earth.
Notes:
- This issue ranked #74 on the August 1998 Diamond Comics Distributor's Preorders list with an estimated 32, 000 units sold.
- Gil Kane was originally considered as the artist for WildC.A.T.S./Aliens. Chris Sprouse was ultimately selected as the artist, buy Kane was asked to do a cover. Having never seen the movie Aliens he, according to Ellis, drew a cover that featured Zealot fighting a traditional “1950’s alien complete with the glass helmet”… which in turn put editor Scott Dunbier in the uncomfortable position if having to tell comic book legend Gil Kane that the cover was unusable. Ellis went on to joke that he wanted to use the cover as a “Retro 1950’s Variant.”
- This issue is collected in the Stormwatch-Book 5: Final Orbit trade.
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