Taken from the Top 5 Movie thread as not to derail it... @Jmona, don't miss the question! 
I had no clue, fascinating. I know nothing. In my brief research it appears that Dan O'Bannon gets credit for the story written as a screenplay for Alien (1979, see Alien film link), which was later embraced by Dark Horse Comic (1988) based on the the Aliens movie (1986).
Question: I found the Alien Graphic Novel (last link). Without having to read a series of comics, is there a single graphic novel that tells of the initial clash between Colonial Marines and Aliens on LV426 with Ripley, Hicks, Burke, and Newt in attendance?
And what do you think about Prometheus the movie?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_(film)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aliens_(comic_book)
There are a whole series of related printed stories as evidenced by this Amazon page.
http://www.amazon.com/Alien-Illustrated-Story-Archie-Goodwin/dp/1781161291
This might be the entire list of Comics:
http://alienanthology.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_Aliens_comics
List of Aliens Graphic Novels:
http://www.avpgalaxy.net/literature/aliens-graphic-novels/
Alien, The Illustrated Story sounds very interesting:
http://www.amazon.com/Alien-Illustrated-Story-Archie-Goodwin/dp/1781161291
And finally it appears we have Dark Horse Comics to thank for bringing Aliens and Predators together, but I've never really cared for these movies:
http://avp.wikia.com/wiki/Timeline
LOL.
Actually yes and no. It started as a short life span for the Xenomorph that Kane gave birth to.
They are like ants doing their queens bidding. However it is also said that the one Alien on the 1979 movie could've also not just being a Drone but a Palatine because Palatines have the ability to molt in to a Xenomorph Queen when exposed to the queens Royal jelly (we didn't see any of that on Acheron upon the arrival of the crew for inspections of the Derelict ship, and all this is based on when we saw the survivors of the Nostromo after being taken by the creature, in a room in which they had already being impregnated by facehuggers, yet. Who laid those eggs to being with.
(Remember Dallas in the extra deleted scenes asking Ripley to kill him?
That's after he actually had been face raped by a Facehugger. More than likely from the Drone/Palatine.
Others like Warriors, Lurkers, berserkers, Spitters and a bunch of other Xeno-species they have all evolved in to something stronger than the initial Drones. The new ones (i.e. Aliens) with the carved a skull.
They all answer to their queens but even the queens and empresses answer to The Mother Queen that Ripley killed in the comics.
Sorry if this is random. I'm pretty sleepy right now. Blame the meds.![]()
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I had no clue, fascinating. I know nothing. In my brief research it appears that Dan O'Bannon gets credit for the story written as a screenplay for Alien (1979, see Alien film link), which was later embraced by Dark Horse Comic (1988) based on the the Aliens movie (1986).

Question: I found the Alien Graphic Novel (last link). Without having to read a series of comics, is there a single graphic novel that tells of the initial clash between Colonial Marines and Aliens on LV426 with Ripley, Hicks, Burke, and Newt in attendance?
And what do you think about Prometheus the movie?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_(film)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aliens_(comic_book)
There are a whole series of related printed stories as evidenced by this Amazon page.
http://www.amazon.com/Alien-Illustrated-Story-Archie-Goodwin/dp/1781161291
This might be the entire list of Comics:
http://alienanthology.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_Aliens_comics
List of Aliens Graphic Novels:
http://www.avpgalaxy.net/literature/aliens-graphic-novels/
Alien, The Illustrated Story sounds very interesting:
http://www.amazon.com/Alien-Illustrated-Story-Archie-Goodwin/dp/1781161291
And finally it appears we have Dark Horse Comics to thank for bringing Aliens and Predators together, but I've never really cared for these movies:
http://avp.wikia.com/wiki/Timeline
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