Aliens: Tribes

Rating:
Summary: Excellent writing with even better art work.
Review: The writing on this graphic novel/book is very good, and the artwork is some of the best I have ever seen.

Rating:
Summary: Too short and uninvolving
Review: This book racks in at 72 pages, but it starts on page 6, and 25 of the remaining 66 pages are illustrations. That turns this book into a 40 page book. The art is excellent, up to Dorman's standards, creepy, photorealistic, and lots of fun to look at. But the writing leaves a lot to be desired. Overlong senteces and too many big words obscure some really neat scenes. The story's pretty good, though, and it introduces the idea of a "berserker" unit that will be brought back later in Perry's novel. This book is a neat addition to the Aliens series, it just costs too much for too little content.