Aliens: Survival is the story of Thompson, a geological surveyor on a distant planet, who is haunted by fevered dreams and horrifying hallucinations of alien battles. His only reprieve is found in his loving family and the tranquillity of their lives together exploring far-off lands. But when his moments of sanity are interrupted by nightmarish alien invasions and unsettling indicators that his life is not what it seems, he must deal with the evidence presented before him -- he's alone in a survival pod, and dirt is leaking through the cracks in its structure. Is he a normal family man suffering delusional terrors -- or a man trapped on an Alien infested planet with only hours to live?
"Having just come off the adaptation of Alien: Resurrection, I wanted to tell a different kind of story -- one which upheld the in-your-face Aliens tradition, but which also went off in its own bizarre direction," explains writer James Vance. "Those who enjoy the horror and action elements shouldn't be disappointed, but I hope some will find as much fun as I did in Aliens: Survival's use of perception and hallucination, and the fact that the only thing more horrible than the Aliens is what's within the mind of a completely ordinary man."
The first issue of the sanity-questioning three part series Aliens: Survival is available February 11 for $2.95.