Being an R-rated horror film precluded
Alien from being adapted by Comics Code-approved Marvel Comics back in 1979, but the publishers of the adult-oriented
Heavy Metal magazine didn't have the same sort of restrictions on content. So they wisely hired writer
Archie Goodwin and artist
Walter Simonson (the same creative team who'd adapted
Close Encounters of the Third Kind for Marvel, and who would each work on Marvel Comics'
Star Wars and B
attlestar Galactica comics at various times) to craft a faithful, uncompromising graphic novel retelling of the
Ridley Scott space thriller, from
Dan O'Bannon &
Ronald Shusett's screen story..
Alien: The Illustrated Story is a phenomenal graphic novel, and a genuine classic of comic book art. Here are a few selected pages:
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