#ovomorphs

Aliens/Vampirella #1 [Textless] (2015)

Art by Devan Gill

Each year we commission an artist to create a Christmas Card to send out to fans of Yutani. Last year was St Ash of Xenomorphs by Yomjileam. This year Devan Gill, creator of Olethros donated this piece for us to give to our fans. Thank you so much for your generosity Devan! You can follow his work on Facebook.

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Who made it in the end? David or the Engineers?

matthatt0n David built on the engineer's' work. That's what the film says to me and the idea we worked under at the time...

Thanks, it's just that between the book and the movie there was this gap. I'm guessing that the Engineers basically made it from one of those carnivorous plants and David only tweaked it so it could 1) hold a dormant facehugger (which he also tweaked, not invented); 2) who in turn holds an alien egg which is really Shaw's ovary impregnated with the DNA of an (amplified, blackened) engineer neomorph.

I interpreted through the whole theme of David being named after the Michelangelo statue and the name Prometheus being after the Greek god who brought humans fire (that eventually was a blessing and a downfall) and the parts where David is thinking "man, I'm so perfect but these humans that created me are not", the thing keeping David separate from humans, from truly being "advanced", was that we had created life from practically thin air and he strived from our example to do the same. It was kinda beautifully dark, I really liked that lol

matthatt0n Yep great guess and I absolutely did the flora stuff intentionally making a bridge not just between the native life and Giger shape language but also as my way of explaining the discrepancy between the different aesthetics we've seen and giving an internal logic. But also wanted to honour the ambiguity inherent in Giger's work where you have an idea but it's not spelled out literally. So it's funny the face-sucker art which was pretty ambiguous (and Ridley liked for that reason) has been taken so literally as not just rebreathing prototype but insemination = eggs from Shaw. A lot of people are being reductive and very literal and yes I like the idea but I like it thematically. Like Blade Runner it's not that Deckard is or isn't, the point is he MAY be. Metaphorically much stronger. Same here! Does that make sense?

matthatt0n Yep absolutely, he's got a big chip on his shoulder about creation. Whether the artwork or the lifeforms. But still coming after/building from classical artists, human or engineer scientists. I was saying in an interview that he covets humanity because he's more than, less than, but ultimately not human.