Jonathan Hickman turns out a crossover between Avengers and Aliens

Entertainment Weekly reports Marvel's producing a crossover between Avengers and Aliens, in another example of too many needless combinations between comics and movie franchises that've since been coming way too late to matter, and written this time by one of the most overrated writers to work for Marvel:

Over the course of the Alien franchise, the fearsome creatures known as Xenomorphs have encountered — and eviscerated — all types of enemies, including workers, soldiers, prisoners, scientists, and even Predators. But this summer, they'll reach a new level when they come face to face with superheroes.

Now that Disney owns the rights to both Marvel and Alien (the latter stemming from the studio's 2019 acquisition of Fox assets), Entertainment Weekly can exclusively report that these two franchises are colliding in the crossover comic Aliens vs. Avengers, from writer Jonathan Hickman and artist Esad Ribic.

That creative team last worked together on the Secret Wars event comic (which has been teased as a potential future Marvel Cinematic Universe film) and are two of Marvel's most accomplished creators. Ribic handled art on Marvel's recent Eternals comic (which was miles better than the movie), while Hickman has been busy with all kinds of projects over the last few years, from revitalizing the X-Men to bringing back the Ultimate Universe.

[...] Aliens vs. Avengers definitely sounds like a strange combination. The superheroes are accustomed to fighting villains who wield fists and energy blasts, not parasites who burrow into bodies and lay eggs. (The Brood, a Marvel alien race clearly inspired by Alien, are typically a problem for the X-Men.) Meanwhile, the Xenomorphs are used to ripping apart flesh-and-blood humans, not living gods with indestructible skin and mythic weapons. But Hickman suggests the pairing will make more sense than it seems.

If this is an excuse for nasty bloodletting, it's not impressive, and quite the opposite, is as off-putting as any of the drabbest Marvel storylines published over the past 2 decades. The part about a recent Eternals comic being better than the unsuccessful movie sounds pretty forced too. (It was written by Kieron Gillen, who messed up Iron Man a decade ago, in case you needed another reason not to buy it.)

The Aliens franchise, much like the Terminator, largely lost significance after 2 movies, and horror thrillers like Aliens is not something I find appealing. However this crossover comic is structured, I'd rather not take the journey. This is not something the Earth's Mightiest Heroes need to be shoehorned into.