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Aliens: Kidnapped is a three-issue limited comic book series that was first published by Dark Horse Comics from December 1997-February 1998. It was written by Jim Woodring and Justin Green, illustrated by Francisco Solano López, colored by Chris Chalenor, lettered by Clem Robins, and edited by Philip Amara, David Land and Ian Stude, with cover art by Kilian Plunkett.

In the Aliens comics line, Aliens: Kidnapped was preceded by the movie adaptation Alien Resurrection, was published concurrently with Aliens: Alchemy, Aliens: Tourist Season and Aliens: Survival, and was followed Aliens: Glass Corridor.

Publisher's Summary[]

#1: In the dark reaches of the universe lies a remote planet that holds both forbidden pleasures and unspeakable horrors. For three naive smugglers, it's also a place to unload some deadly cargo: an Alien egg. But, something about this egg is scaring off the black marketeers. And when it hatches, the nightmare's just begun.

#2: The contaminated Alien egg has hatched, and has become the problem of media personality Darryl Zither. But playing unknowing host to a Chestburster isn't enough to cancel his trip to a new pleasure planet with sexy Ivy Derringer. Zither thinks he's only caught a nasty bug, but doesn't know the half of it. And neither do the planet's unsuspecting inhabitants, who are about to have a full-scale Alien epidemic on their hands.

#3: How do you deal with an Alien plague? The inhabitants of the pleasure planet Celeste take care of business with good old-fashioned nuclear weapons. (They're a precocious bunch, to be sure!) But as they scheme to rid themselves of the Alien, the creature is spreading a new fatal airborn virus like wildfire. However they solve their problem, it will probably spell an apocalyptic end for the good citizens of Earth!

Plot[]

On a distant planet, a group of smugglers infiltrate the remains of a ship and encounter a Xenomorph Queen. After the latter is promptly dispatched by the other two after killing one of the men, they procure several of the Queen's eggs, one of them being a bizarre ovomorph with a sinkly pink color-scheme.

The smugglers ultimately do a deal with a Gaianet scientist, who pays them handsomely. However, he refuses to buy the pink egg, weary of the dangers it might cause, and pays them extra to dispose of it. Going against his wishes, the two travel to Earth and arrive at suburban shantytown Barabazon, intent on selling the egg on the black market to bar owner Uncle Saul. Though Saul initially declines, he ultimately purchases the egg after believing that media personality and host of the TV show Goad, Darryl Zither, may take interest.

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The Chestburster erupts from Zither and attacks Derringer.

Zither has billionaire CEO of her company "Skank", Ivy Derringer as a guest star on an episode of Goad, the latter promoting her luxury resort of Celeste, and inviting Zither to join her as a guest. After the interview, Zither travels to Uncle Saul's bar where he is shown the pink egg. Suddenly, a Facehugger leaps out of the egg and subdues him, his two bodyguards forced to drag him and dump him back to his apartment.

Several hours later, Zither awakens to see Derringer, who arrived at his place to pick him up and escorts him to her shuttle. Ivy takes Zither to her room, where she attempts to initiate intercourse, but a large Chestburster suddenly explodes out of Zither's chest and attacks and kills Derringer.

Several hours after landing on Celeste, the Chestburster kills the ship captain, before leaving the ship and going on a killing spree within the resort, leaving a slimy pink trail wherever it goes. Celeste is subsequently put under martial law by cyborg director Drummond. Meanwhile, after security eventually find the creature, now deceased, Derringer's ship, which made an emergency return to Earth, crashes back onto Celeste after Derringer's chief of security suffers a bout of madness. Worse, Drummond is informed that the Chestburster's residue that it secreted was incredibly contagious and deadly, and that Celeste has been marked for nuclear destruction to quarantine the epidemic. Falling into despondency, Drummond sits by a bench as an infected visitor next to him explodes into a pulp. He subsequently closes his eyes as Celeste is eviscerated by the nuclear devices.

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Reprint History[]

Dark Horse Comics[]

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Cover to Aliens: Kidnapped trade paperback by John Bolton.

Aliens: Kidnapped was first collected as a trade paperback in February 1999, edited by Chris Warner and Suzanne Taylor and featuring a new cover by painter John Bolton.

It was collected again as part of Aliens Omnibus: Volume 5 in October 2008.

The complete comic was released digitally through Dark Horse Digital on May 29, 2013, reusing Kilian Plunkett's cover art from issue 1.

Marvel Comics[]

Following Marvel Comics' acquisition of the rights to Alien comic books, the comic was collected as part of Marvel's Aliens: The Original Years Volume 3 collection, alongside many other later Dark Horse stories. The collection was released on November 22, 2022.

Behind the Scenes[]

Series writer Jim Woodring and cover artist Kilian Plunkett were both veterans of the Aliens line and former collaborators, having worked together as writer and series artist on Aliens: Labyrinth in 1993.

Plunkett, also a veteran Star Wars comics artist for Dark Horse Comics, now serves as one of the lead character designers on the Cartoon Network animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars.

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