Like any fan of Extraterrestrial franchise I will tell you that the real bad guy in the movies isn’t the xenomorph himself – hey, he’s just doing his thing – it’s the f**king company, man. Weyland-Yutani was the hyper-capitalist thorn in Ripley’s side, Rainand every other Alienverse hero since the original 1979 Ridley Scott film.

The Weyland Corporation (rather than Weyland-Yutani) plays a major role in Marvel’s Aliens vs. Avengerswhich has just released its second issue, written by Jonathan Hickman and drawn by Esad Ribić. The new issue sheds more light on what’s going on in society, while also making strange connections to two of the film series’ most controversial episodes…

Spoilers for Aliens vs. Avengers #2

The issue opens in “Another Universe, Another Time” – and with a scene that will be familiar to anyone who has seen Extraterrestrial: Alliance. Suspended above the homeworld of the Engineers – the mysterious race that appears to have created all life in the galaxy in contemporary Scott lore – is the spaceship that the android David and the late Elizabeth Shaw commandeered at the end of Prometheus.