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<blockquote data-quote="overgeeked" data-source="post: 9382729" data-attributes="member: 86653">I just finished Aliens: Earth Hive. It was a good book with a middling story, the characters were engaging and familiar, and the description and action was on point. I found out why the description and action are constantly driving the story forward in a visually appealing way...because it's an adaptation of a comic book limited series. I found out why the characters were so engaging and familiar...because it was originally published before Alien 3 came out, so the two main characters were Hicks and Newt. After Alien 3 came out the subsequent comic reprints and this novel had the characters' names changed to Wilks and Billie, respectively. Those names were chosen because they could be easily spliced into the lettering as they take up almost the exact same space in comic fonts. This is the first in a trilogy based on the trilogy of graphic novels. I might read the rest at some point. It's a quick read. Only about 60,000 words. A quick scan of the graphic novel suggests the adaptation is very close to the source. There's a few changes here and there making the novel a bit darker and more adult than the comic book source material.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="overgeeked, post: 9382729, member: 86653"] I just finished [I]Aliens: Earth Hive[/I]. It was a good book with a middling story, the characters were engaging and familiar, and the description and action was on point. I found out why the description and action are constantly driving the story forward in a visually appealing way...because it's an adaptation of a comic book limited series. I found out why the characters were so engaging and familiar...because it was originally published before Alien 3 came out, so the two main characters were Hicks and Newt. After Alien 3 came out the subsequent comic reprints and this novel had the characters' names changed to Wilks and Billie, respectively. Those names were chosen because they could be easily spliced into the lettering as they take up almost the exact same space in comic fonts. This is the first in a trilogy based on the trilogy of graphic novels. I might read the rest at some point. It's a quick read. Only about 60,000 words. A quick scan of the graphic novel suggests the adaptation is very close to the source. There's a few changes here and there making the novel a bit darker and more adult than the comic book source material. [/QUOTE]

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