ALIENS: WHAT IF...?

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Paperback
$17.99 US
On sale Oct 01, 2024 | 128 Pages | 9781302946586
The Aliens franchise gets the Marvel What If treatment, featuring notorious corporate man Carter Burke in an all-new adventure!

For years, fans of James Cameron’s legendary ALIENS film questioned whether Carter Burke, a company man more hateable than the Xenos themselves, had actually survived the traumatic events on the terraforming colony Hadley’s Hope. Now the actor behind the beloved villain, Paul Reiser, joins his son Leon and a star-studded team of writers and producers for a journey back to Hadley’s Hope and the twisted escape of a man who should have died!

COLLECTING: Aliens: What If…? (2024) 1-5
Paul Reiser is an American actor, comedian, and writer. His career includes sitcoms My Two Dads and Mad About You, and films such as Diner and the Beverly Hills Cop series. More recently, he has gained recognition for his roles in the 2014 film Whiplash and the Netflix series Stranger Things. In 1986, Reiser portrayed greedy, slimy company man Carter Burke in James Cameron's Aliens, in which he went against his casting type and showcased his acting range.

Guiu Vilanova displayed his skills while depicting the dimension of the mind in The Twilight Zone series. For Marvel Legacy’s Punisher, he helped chronicle a new chapter in the character’s history as Frank Castle took up the mantle of War Machine.

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The Aliens franchise gets the Marvel What If treatment, featuring notorious corporate man Carter Burke in an all-new adventure!

For years, fans of James Cameron’s legendary ALIENS film questioned whether Carter Burke, a company man more hateable than the Xenos themselves, had actually survived the traumatic events on the terraforming colony Hadley’s Hope. Now the actor behind the beloved villain, Paul Reiser, joins his son Leon and a star-studded team of writers and producers for a journey back to Hadley’s Hope and the twisted escape of a man who should have died!

COLLECTING: Aliens: What If…? (2024) 1-5

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Paul Reiser is an American actor, comedian, and writer. His career includes sitcoms My Two Dads and Mad About You, and films such as Diner and the Beverly Hills Cop series. More recently, he has gained recognition for his roles in the 2014 film Whiplash and the Netflix series Stranger Things. In 1986, Reiser portrayed greedy, slimy company man Carter Burke in James Cameron's Aliens, in which he went against his casting type and showcased his acting range.

Guiu Vilanova displayed his skills while depicting the dimension of the mind in The Twilight Zone series. For Marvel Legacy’s Punisher, he helped chronicle a new chapter in the character’s history as Frank Castle took up the mantle of War Machine.

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