Aliens Omnibus Volume 4 Paperback – June 24, 2008

Aliens Omnibus Vo.4 has nearly four hundred story pages in full colour, as usual fantastic art work a couple of stories never before shown. Creators Chet Williamson known for his horror stories, John Arcudi, Dough Mahnke, Jon Wagner and many more this book was a collaboration of many my great writers great minds. The stories in this omnibus are 6 in total Music of the Spears, Stronghold, Frenzy, Taste, Mondo Pest and Mondo Heat. . The cover of volume 4 is exceptional it conveys exactly what it's all about. A great book with different stories great artwork fantastic writing. My favourite story by far would have to be Music of the Spears, it' by far the most unique and unusual of all the stories in this book. In this story Al iens have almost become collector's items mainly because it's illegal to keep any. Aside from the dangers that are pretty obvious, but to keep one a person would have to be a raving lunatic. They're not exactly a common household pet, they have strange habits especially the face huggers. In this story we are dealing with a musician little known, rather underrated, who wants to do something not done before. In order to create that perfect concert one would need the perfect instrument. As he takes in more and more of that miracle essence royal jelly,from his own hateable music company called synosound his thought patterns become entangled with the perfect which sound which becomes what is not what can be created but what can be manipulated from it. He wants to hatch an Alien egg and nurture it in captivity and capture its sound of hatred and pain, he nicknames this alien Mozart. This is a story about one man's (Ramon) decent into obsession and madness of music. Stronghold Phillip and Joy are on a routine run delivering a shipment to Grant Corporation. Here they realise that there's more to Nording a biotechnologist than meets the eye. This story is very much a representative of Harvest. Here they are producing synthetic alien characters out of synthoid , and it's because of this that the progression of synthetics have stood out most of all to create for serving mankind's surival. This story has lots of action and motion. Stronghold is a story of something besieged and what it means to try to stay alive. It also introduces the complexity and the dynamics of the Alien hive. Frenzy instead is a story about a 5 man strike team which is sent on a single mission to destroy the Aliens, but when they land they will land right in the middle of a full blown hive that is the beginning of their unfortunet nightmare. This story was Beserker and the title of the name was changed. This story needless to say is full of action no character interaction and just lots of action in it for staying alive. Frenzy is an epic in which has hives numbering in the thousands,which have face huggers in it for swarming out of every corner and elevator shafts out of each and every corner and then there's finallyMAX he's a mobile assault exowarrior sent in with a human inside and equpped with a pulse rifler and grenade launcher in it and because of this he was sent in by the army marines from the company which is called ds49 and in the end they are sent by the five membered crew to dstroy the frenzy hive.Frenzy is exactly as its name implies which unfortunetly in a rotten way is blood and gore of guts. Taste is a short strange story. A giant Alien creature gets an Alien egg hatching throws it on a grill for consumption. Mondo Pest Herk Mondo the famous Alien hunter is back once more. He answers a distress call and finds himself in his favourite spot in the middle of his favourite targets. Mondo is a nasty ex marine with an extreme hate for Aliens. Mondo Heat is again about Herk Mondo. There's a major infestation of Aliens no marines in sight but then there's Herk only problem is he's completely unarmed in the middle of the biggest infestation he's ever had to deal with, and that's not all he has to deal with he's got an active volcano almost ready to explode right under his feet. As Herk Mondo is a cool kinda person he's calm throughout the entire ordeal. For him it's just more of the same. He's got Aliens to kill farmers to save and volcanoes to escape for which in the end unlike sport the loser becomes extinct and happily earns his reputation for being victorless!

I would have liked this better if the binding hadn't fallen apart and groups of pages coming apartt! Read too late to return to Amazon. Book was as good as rest of series (whose binding was fine) from what I could read.

The stories are great. Unfortunately, the pages are falling out of the book. The base of the book must be losing its stick. Can't hold the thing like a normal person would. Its ridiculous.

I love these stories of what could have been. If Alien 3 had not hit theaters who knows what might have been.

Aliens is my favorite movie and I enjoy these comics.

If you are a fan of the Aliens universe this an amusing romp through that universe. I didn't want it to end.

2 star rating for book binding falling apart NOT for content of Omnibus! Comics inside are amazing, just like the rest of the Aliens Omnibus 1-6 (5 stars for all 6) but Omnibus 4 and 5 are apparently different in that they look different (gray line at bottom of binding / back as opposed to Omnibus 1-3 and 6) and are totally bad quality (again, binding not content!). So buyer beware of Omnibus 4 and 5!! See other reviews saying the exact same thing.....

Looks great on the fire. Easy to read and good coloring. Highly recommended for fans of the alien series. Check it out

Stories = great, what is not so great is I had to get a replacement as chunks pages were falling out of a BRAND NEW book. Then when the replacement arrived the same thing happened. The quality of this book is not great compared to the previous omnibus books, I haven't had this issue with any of the others and it's happens twice to with this one.

Great product, recommended

Excellent!

Perfect :)

Good condition this time. ..returned previous copy as pages were not stuck in properly with no problems thank you son very happy