5 LiFE AND DEATH * ad ry ABNETT PTs RAIN atauLIFE Ane DEAT H LY tho script DAN ABNETT art MORITAT co.ors RAIN BEREDO LETTERING MICHAEL HEISLER cover art DAVID PALUMBO PART TWELVE OF SEVENTEEN OF LIFE AND DEATH {see the previous miniseries Predator: Life and Death and Prometheus: Life and Death This story takes place approximately forty-three years after the events in the motion picture Aliens (and just over a year after the events in the Fire and Stone story cycle! On LV-223, Captain Paget's team of Colonial Marines attempt to rescue a woman, Chris, from the Alien hive, only to be set upon by the Alien horde, intent on preventing her rescue. Inside the hive, Chris witnesses the stillbirth of a deformed chestburster erupting from a fellow captive and realizes that she may carry the last Viable Alien queen embryo. Empowered, she uses the threat of her own death as leverage against the queen to pull the Alien horde away from Paget and her troops. But the reprieve from the xenomorphs reveals another threat—an Engineer, determined to wipe the humans from the face of the planet! PUBLISHER MIKE RICHARDSON EDITOR RANDY STRADLEY ASSISTANT EDITORS KEVIN BURKHALTER ANO FREDDYE MILLER DESIGNER SANDY TANAKA DIGITAL ART TECHNICIAN CONLEY SMITH Special thanks to Josh lzzo and Nicole Spiegel at Twentieth Century Fox book.com/DarkHor Advertising Sales (503) 9 DarkHorse.com Fa ‘omics Twitter.com/DarkHorseComics 37 | International Licensing (503) 905-2377 | Comic Shop Locator Service (888] 264-4226 ALIENS: LIFE AND DEATH #4, December 2016. Published by Dark Horse Comics Ine, 10954 © 1986, 2016 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. Al rights reserved. re Dark Horse Comics® and the Dark Horse logo are trademarks of ark Horse Camis, I tered reserved. No portion af this publication may be reproduced or ransmited in eny form or by any means, Dark Horee Comes In ‘aractes, places, nd incidents featured inthis publication ether are used fittiously Any re to tual persons living, deed or Tocehugged, events institutions, or lo Printed n Canada fin Street, Miva ademark of Twentieth Ce stored in various categeri iene & Corporati out satire intents coincidentalerairalee 5 Baideless Len SEEGERS LENE EH AND ler ires eee CAPTAIN ISET GAVE ME SPECIFIC AND Be orecric ane Paros ue BES VED: AND. ie coN ser Has Been Last, Ym Not GONG TO RECENE teat SceIVE Tey 22 MATEee. ey SPAR ye THAT's. DISAPPOINTING, Gon Cea Maanite Cette, one IF We CAN alge THEM, AND WATT 70 See Ie THE TRANSPONDER SIGNAL. ANG CONTE SIGN AND JF IT Rees state Ne 1 5road nee as Y + 53003 peer ees NOT SOMETHING WE WANT To Leave BEHIND. I UNDERSTAND, npersTano, aur vyouNeeo 10 TRbeasaNe THB... cee eecee rien oe canuucians If SHE GETS into TROUBLE, T DO NOT G9 LOCKING POR HER WHHOUT Tes ExPacse AUTHORITY CET CP 7writs company aeie 7 THAT Was go coven, Pam 4 a rf ASSHOLE 7 oo MiRoTH? ROTH. WHERE ARE YOU?SHH. rg STILL our THERE, close Ir KILLED EDDERLY. THING AZZOPARDI AND C2055 ARE STILL OUT HERE. DON'T know ABOUT YUNG. WE COULD BREAK OUT TO THE West. rast MARCH BACK TO THE DROPSHIP, AND. Leave cris BEHIND? =-AND WE: DON'T STAND A CHANCE AGAINST THE ENGINEER, DEAD. THESE Tickers ARE CRAWLING WITH Bues— WANT TO SAVE HER, JILL. YOuKNOW THAT. ND we've TRIED OUR DAMNEDEST. Gur we'ee PINNED AND Ie We STAY,ROTH? "TAKE FREE BODY, SEE Ie YOU CAN FIND AZzOPARDI AND CROSS, crise. PAGET? CAN YouHEAR EM HERE. me? WHATS, HAPPENING? BUT WE'VE TAN ENGINEER HERE NOW.There's WOU DONTE AN ENGINEER URE COMING. AN, AWORD IM ENGINEER! SAYING COMING TOWIPE Sut ME, THIS NEST, EVERYTHING! ‘BUT YOU UNDERSTAND THREATS, DON'T You? You UNDERSTAND THREATS!”i eUdenpenendeie(AVE CE a2, EMERGENCY [. ay og b‘PLEASE ADVISE, HAVE YOU BROKEN ORBIT? aia e—ees ae CONTINUES LATER THIS ie) NM ey eel LIFE AND DEATH #1!LIFE AND DEATH an In addition to the designs Renee cen Pee une Pe Rue Cerun cs een eects Peed eee eee hog TAB emitsLIFE AND DEATH VIN ae ALIEN VS. PREDATOR, Issue #1 This Month! Next issue: LeeLee HotComic.net