\ LIiFE AND DEATH bia UyLIFE AnD DEAT H Lt script DAN ABNETT art MORITAT co.ors RAIN BEREDO LETTERING MICHAEL HEISLER cover art DAVID PALUMBO PART TEN 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 land just over a year after the events in the Fire and Stone story cycle] On LV-223 [the planet from the motion picture Prometheus and the graphic novel series Fire and Stone], a group of Colonial Marines and other survivors fight for their lives against both Aliens and the entities known as Engineers. Their plan to capture the Engineers’ spacecratt failed, and part of their team was trapped aboard the vessel when it launched into space The members of the group still on the planet prepared to make a final stand against either the Aliens or the Engineers, only to be discovered by the main marine force, which had followed them to the nightmare planet The humans prepared to return to their orbiting marine ship, unaware that one of their number had been captured alive by the Aliens and taken to their nest PUBLISHER MIKE RICHARDSON EDITOR RANDY STRADLEY ASSISTANT EDITORS KEVIN BURKHALTER AND FREDDYE MILLER DESIGNER SANDY TANAKA DIGITAL ART TECHNICIAN CONLEY SMITH Special thanks to Josh Izzo and Nicole Spiegel at Twentieth Century Fox. DarkHorse.com Facebook.com/DarkHorseComics Twitter.com/DarkHorseComi Advertising Sales (503) 905-2237 | International Licensing (503) 905-2377 | Comic Shop Locator Service (888) 266- NS; LIFE AND DEATH #2, October 2016, Published by Dark Horse Comics, Ine, 10956 SE Main Stree, Mitwaukie, Oregon 97222. Aliens™& © 1986, 6 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation Allright reserved. TM indicates a trademark of Twentieth Century Fox Flm Corporation, Dark Horse Comics® and the Dark Horse logo are trademarks of Dark Horse Comics, Ine. registered in various categories and countries. All righls reserved. No portion ofthis publication may be reproduced or transmitted, in any form or by ary means, without the express written permission of Dark Comes, ne. Names, characters, places, and incidents featured inthis publcation either are the product of the author's imagination or are Used fiettiousy Any resemblance to actual persons living or deal, events, institutions, or locals, without satiric intent, is coincidental. Printed in Canada,RAPID-RESPONSE COMBAT SHIP HASDRUBAL UNITED. STATES COLONIAL MARINE CORPS THATS RIGHT, CAPTAIN, SHE SEEMS TO BE A’caetve oF THE XENOMORPHS, weve ~ PICKED uP A +{ TRANSMISSION ROM THE. FROM SURFACE, I's REAL WEAK,‘AND WHEN THAT HADPENS, THERE'S NO COMING BACK FROM IT, RIGHT? NO BossiLe SAVE? Li Nowe, LOST THAT SHIP, OKAY. BUT TRACKING FPLED Us To A PLANET LED WITH XENOTECH SITES, Rom THE ORIGINAL PLATOON, We Have EIGHTEEN Lerr. EIGHTEEN OUT OF THIRTY-ONE. THAT'S CALL Tr QUITS, Bur we've /Ac'D. We've Come THROUSH HELL, We've GOT ‘EVERYONE OUT ALIVE THAT WE ‘CAN. RIGHT?FF Ig ALIVE, RUCKER* COULD BE TOO, DOWN THERE, SO Leiguee t OWE HER. TD 00, I BECAUSE WE NEVER LEAVE A MAN BEHIND. 0.00 BECAUSE...WE'RE USCM, AND We MADE SOME KINDA PLEDGE ‘ABOUT A ZILLION Years Aco THAT OUGHT TS MEAN ‘SOMETHING.THis 15 NoT AGG00 SITUATION,'eL RAN TT past COMMAND, Tr WOULD NOT BE ‘SANCTIONED.MELVILLE? f CAPTAIN PAGET ASKED FoR VOLUNTEERS. SHE ) DIENT specie TM GOING. BACK TO THE SURFACE TO GET CHRIS.WELL, JILL, T CAN UNDERSTAND Your PEsiRe TO Bo = spent MONTHS PRAYING TO GET OFF THAT WORLD, Ma, LORIMER, NOW Dim DESPERATE TO RETURN. Fe TELLING you THis Because r WANT TO MAKE CHRIS HAS HER OnLy CHANCE 's THIS. We Recover HER comeany LeveL. WEYLAND- ‘YUTANI LEVEL. your peopte ARE THE ONLY SPECIALISTS WHO STAND A CHANCE: OF SAVING HER,cut aBEME oeaw A DOCUMENT. T aie SARIS TO THE COMPANY. ‘OF HR THEN VOL ONE Y Hee Bade TO Me ALIVE. THERE WOULD BE No GUARANTEES, T KNOW. UT T GRANT you LEGAL RIGHTS TO HER BODY, YOu Do YouR ‘GODDAMNDEST. oe GAT 8 EW nore SDN ALIVING SPECIMEN, IMPLANTED, EMERYONIC...THAT'S A BIGGER PRIZE ABSOLUTELY NOT.WE Got THE FREIGHT BUS DOWN IN A oroRAe, o So, We Gate ON THis DROP, You ONY tne o cous ney cee oer ON My EXPRESS pa L20Ks. ue Vat Keer SHAR, DANZIGER, NGAN, AND ORIEN oxay, a er vo wagers 12 SEE 20 MANY Tasos Saite 08, 129K, Devan we Lgat a1eb On ON TARTARUS WEVE 357 ONE, DROPSHIP No punBass. HERO PLAYS, OKAY? See Nor ese re he S ONY cenanINs Sindee eos ON Some ‘CRAZY MISSION ‘TO HELP US,= 2 4 | — Sai LSTHE LOON you. SAID BLDDIEDTAB emiRIGHT. STUPID QLESTION. a a aa ea ry a (von c \ ll hy ABT WITHIN a —LIFE Ane DEATH an cet UCM ICE Sea ae un eee Le PeRCuRt Meer ee uae Oem one me eC RnR Lae CUCU eon Ie Ceram Te Unt rd ere me Nee Ps ace mura ics HAMA em aLIFE AND DEATH aan Issue #3 on sale November 16! Neca yay