Alien: Earth and Alien: Paradiso | Fantastic Forum

This week on Fantastic Forum, we are diving headfirst into the uncanny with two Alien tales that take the franchise to thrilling new frontiers! First we explore Alien: Earth, FX’s chilling reboot of a sci-fi horror classic. Created and showrun by Noah Hawley, this prequel series drops us into the dangerous year 2120, two years before the original Alien, and follows Wendy, a synthetic hybrid, as she confronts corporate conspiracies and Xenomorphic threats on Earth. The stakes are high for the Alien franchise as it makes its television debut. Then we jet to the other side of the galaxy with Alien: Paradiso, the five-issue limited comic series by Steve Foxe, Edgar Salazar, and Peter Nguyen. This time we are at a neon-soaked luxury resort in space where tropical paradise quickly turns into a nightmare. When Colonial Marshals crash the party, they find smugglers, android staff, and soon a bloodthirsty Xenomorph in their midst. Each issue even gives us the alien’s point of view through Nguyen’s surreal pages. It is privilege, chance, and carnage in full technicolor. Watch tonight at 6:30 pm PT and call in live at www.fantasticforum.live to get in on the conversation. Fantastic Forum, assemble! Subscribe – youtube.com/fantasticforum Call In – FantasticForum.live #Alien #AlienEarth #AlienParadiso #NewComicBookDay