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Alien: Bloodlines

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When does Alien: Bloodlines take place?

Alien: Bloodlines is a comic released in 2021. Its story takes place in 2200, 21 years after Alien 3 (2179) and 181 years before Alien Resurrection (2381). In the Alien comics timeline, it comes after Alien: Thaw (2195) and before Alien: Revival (2202).

The first issue opens in January 2200, twenty years after the Xenomorph attack that Cruz survived in 2180.

Description

"Alien: Bloodlines" is a six-issue comic series written by Phillip Kennedy Johnson and drawn by Salvador Larroca, published by Marvel Comics from March to August 2021. It was Marvel's first Alien series, released as "Alien" and collected as "Alien Vol. 1: Bloodlines."

Gabriel Cruz, chief of security on Weyland-Yutani's Epsilon Station, is the sole survivor of a Xenomorph attack that almost cost him his life. Now retiring, he tries to reconnect with his estranged son, Danny, with the help of a Bishop-model android. But Danny has secrets of his own. When he boards Epsilon with a militant group, using his father's stolen security card, Cruz is sent back to the station. The aliens are loose, and Epsilon is slowly falling out of orbit.

Synopsis

Retiring Weyland-Yutani security chief Gabriel Cruz, the only survivor of an old alien attack, must go back to Epsilon Station when his estranged son breaks into it and the Xenomorphs get loose.