Alien: Dead Orbit
好久沒有更新了，真的是太慚愧了。工作太忙，餘下的時光都想花在休息、娛樂之上，至於閱後感等等甚麼的，有時間再說。
但在剛過去的星期六，也就是2/6/2018，我一直在使用的Samsung S7 Edge無緣無故的壞掉了，怎樣也無法成功開機，過去沒有備份的資料統統都沒有了，好多有關旅行的紀錄，一直都有恃無恐的說之後再整理，都化為輕煙，使我心痛至極。這個教訓讓我醒悟，世事無常，可以的話，一定要把握現在，珍惜眼前仍擁有的人和事，以及終將褪色的記憶。
這次看的漫畫是Alien: Dead Orbit，故事內容轉貼自http://avp.wikia.com：
In the year 2295, within the depths of the crumbling fuel depot known as the Scphacteria, the disheveled Engineering Officer Wascylewski is sitting in the quarters of the observation deck alone. Before putting out his last of many cigarettes, he notices a terminal warning him that a threshold has been reached and requires immediate attention. Wassy puts on a compression suit, brings a case with him and takes a space walk across the station.
The comic goes into a flashback before the Sphacteria was in ruins; an unknown approaching vessel is noticed by the crew of the fuel depot orbiting the gas giant Pylos. Crewmember Park identifies that the ship is an old company freighter sold at auction to a private buyer. She also informs Captain Hassan that the ship contains Hypersleep chambers, and that the crew of the ship may still be in hypersleep. Communications Officer Rook is less than enthusiastic, believing that they may be pirates.
Hassan tells Park and Wascylewski that they are going to board the ship in their shuttle, alongside Medical Officer Harrow and Security Officer Torrenson.
The crew aboard the ship and explore its interior. They do not seem impressed with its conditions, with Hassan calling it a "deathtrap". Wassy notices a massive hole through a wall, citing that something had melted through the bulkhead. As he catches up with the rest, the crew encounter three humans in hypersleep chambers; two male twins and a female. Wassy uses a terminal and identifies that although the system is giving him much data, their vital signs seem normal. Hassan suggests waking them up, though Torrenson advises against it.
Park flips the switch but something goes awry. The coolant tank breaks and the chambers begin violently overheating, burning the members in stasis alive. The group panics and eventually manage to break the chambers open, bringing out the horribly charred and disfigured passengers, choking and gurgling and in a state of shock.
The comic flashes forward to Wassey removing his space suit after his walk and anxiously approaching the corridors of the Sphacteria. As he turns a corner, he hallucinates a Xenomorph, only for it to turn out to be a mesh of pipes and machinery. As he recovers from his scare, a loose cord blasts steam into his direction, covering his field of view. As Wascylewski looks into the smoke-covered corridor, a real Xenomorph emerges from the mist.
Wassy drops the case and runs into the medbay and hides, sitting down next to the corpse of one of the burned salvagers. He checks the countdown on his wristwatch, reading 04:03:25. The comic flashes back to Harrow desperately trying to treat the convulsing patients and is forced to give them sedatives. Wassy grabs a bottle of alcohol and attempts to leave to his quarters, but Hassan stops him and orders him to begin deciphering the ships systems.
Later, Wassy recovers data that reveals that the ship's last entry had them exchanging supplies for Chinese Yuan, with only frontier colonies in desolate space still using the currency. Wassy deduces that if the crew initiated emergency procedures aboard the ship, then the vessel would autopilot them to the nearest corporate location, in this case, the Sphacteria. Additionally, he identifies that the ship originally contained eight crewmembers, not three.
Park suddenly contacts Hassan, telling him that Harrow needs immediate help. As Hassan and the others return to the medbay, they are met with Park and Harrow attempting to hold down the seizing passengers, who had already been given a full dosage of sedatives. Suddenly, two Chestbursters erupt from the passengers. The others watch in horror as the Chestbursters escape from the medbay.
The comic flashes forward again, and Wassy realizes that he forgot the case after his encounter with the Alien and goes back to retrieve it, securing it to himself with medical tape. A sudden hull breach results in him having to perform an emergency override and seal the bulkhead, but not before losing enough air to pass out. As he reawakens he sees two Aliens by his side, one dragging him by foot down a corridor, before losing consciousness again.
When Wassy comes to, he finds himself cocooned in a nest next to an unconscious Hassan while the two Aliens that brought him there watch over the both of them. Wassy checks his wristwatch, reading 02:02:58, and has a flashback to when the adult creatures recently emerged. It is established that following Rook's disappearance, Hassan is also snatched into a vent in front of the remaining groups very eyes. Park, Torrenson and Wassy all start weighing up their odds of survival. A panicked Torrenson wants to take a shuttle and retreat into the scavenger's vessel until rescue arrives whilst Park is concerned about Rook and Hassan still being alive.
After a heated argument, the group decide to check up on Harrow, still in the med-bay surveying the last remaining passenger. The three hear a crash and rush to the med-bay where they are greeted with the fully awake passenger holding Harrow hostage with a scalpel by his neck. Park attempts to calm her down whilst Torrenson secretly goes for a stun baton. He lunges at the passenger but she is able to dodge. Torrenson fumbles into one of the operating tables, revealing one of the other passengers corpses to the female survivor. In a state of shock and rage, she brutally slits Harrow's throat and runs away. After Harrow bleeds out, the rest attempt to catch the female passenger. The group are too late, as they watch on as she takes a shuttle to her ship. The shuttles umbilical however, is still attached, causing it to be propelled back into the Sphacteria. Wascylewski jumps to the floor for cover as the shuttle explodes into the station.
The comic returns to the hive, with one of the Aliens moving towards Wassy. Laughter in the distance suddenly lures both Aliens away, allowing Wassy to break free and escape the nest with the case he originally set out for. He looks back at Harrow, still unconscious and cocooned and reluctantly leaves him. Wassy follows the sound of the laughter, ringing out like a beacon, until he finds Torrenson, drunk, demented and alone, right before the two Aliens he purposely lured out emerge from the darkness behind him.
A final flashback shows Wassy, Torrenson and Park in the aftermath of the shuttle colliding with the Sphacteria. The three rush to the cargo hold, in which Wassy retrieves a case. The case, that was so important to Wassy in prior flashbacks, is revealed to contain mining charges, the crew's last hope for survival. Wassy intends to lock everyone in life support and "blow the struts from the main deck"; since the station itself is modular, they'll be able to use the module like a psuedo-lifeboat and wait for rescue. Park suddenly hears a noise within the darkness of the cargo bay, and a Xenomorph suddenly emerges and attacks the group. Torrenson, traumatized, runs from the scene. Wassy and Park run towards the observation deck in hopes of solace and Wassy begins closing the bulkhead, telling Park to hurry. Suddenly, a second Xenomorph emerges. Wassy looks on in horror and despair as the two Aliens incapacitate and kill Park whilst the bulkhead to the observation deck closes, bringing the plot into full circle from where it began.
Back in the present, Wassy runs away from the two Xenomorphs who grab and kill Torrenson. He reaches life support, puts on a compression suit from a locker and prepares the mining charges. Ready to make leave, he notices a bag containing a spare box of cigarettes in the locker. Wascylewski gives into weakness and takes them with him before an Alien bursts from a ventilation shaft above him and attacks him. In a fit of confusion Wassy pulls at the bag which accidentally brings the whole locker down onto the Xenomorph. This buys him enough time to detonate a charger and blow a wall into the ship, bringing him into the atmosphere of space. Wassy's compression suit allows him to stick to the surface of the station, but the pursuing Alien emerges. As the creature closes in, Wassy detonates another charge, separating the life support module from the station. As Wassy hooks himself onto the module to stop himself slipping away into space, the Alien emerges again from the smoke, this time missing an arm with acid blood dripping everywhere. Wassy realizes this and unlocks a chamber containing several oxygen tanks. Wassy holds one up in front of the approaching creature and it's acid blood, floating through space collides with the tank, blowing Wassy away and the Alien into space.
Inside the module, now drifting aimlessly in desolate space, Wassy breathes a sigh of relief and takes out his pack of cigarettes. A terminal nearby suddenly warns that oxygen levels are critical and begins a countdown, starting at 04:02:56. Wassy, alone, smokes his last pack as the timer slowly counts down.
這個故事內容簡單，就是最基本的Alien劇情：不知情的船員遇到另一群被襲擊的船員，赫然見到怪物破胸而出，一行人逐個逐個在太空內的密室中被捕殺，最後總有方法擊退怪物。
老掉牙的故事，不用解釋太多，讓讀者爽就好。這種穩紮穩打的故事，倒也能令愛好者買帳。然而，我真的不太習慣本作的插敘式敘事技巧，極度頻密的時間線轉換，看得我頭昏腦脹。我是習慣了漫畫都出完了才一次過追看，這也還好，對那些每期追看的讀者而言，只怕會看得一頭霧水，每次都要翻開上一期重整故事線。
對於本作中出現的Alien，他們的表現也是平平無奇，一如以往的殺人爆頭、抓人築巢，不過在這個畫家的筆下，身形是更加類似人類了，真有點看不慣呢。
雖然說本作的敘事方式不敢恭維，可是本作的氣氛描寫真的不錯，處處讓人感受到壓逼感，就算是Alien正式出場前，也把氣氛弄得挺懸疑的。我也頗喜歡本作的結局，主角在經歷萬難後，終於擊退怪物，卻無奈面對空氣一點一滴流逝的情況，只能黯然抽煙，也能讓人感到在太空的寂寞與絕望。
畫功方面，不得不說作者Jame Stokoe真的很用心，由故事、作畫、上色都由他一手包辦，細節地方也不馬虎，機器的細節部份也有好好刻劃出來，吸引我仔細欣賞。至於人物的造型方面，有點東方漫畫的味道，總之就不是常見的美漫筆觸，但也很是有趣。
總的來說，本作是一部平穩的Alien故事，沒有特別的伏筆，就是爽爽而已，但我也覺得很不錯的。而在觀看後要馬上看wiki了解故事線，也可能只是我理解力低下罷。
80分。
但在剛過去的星期六，也就是2/6/2018，我一直在使用的Samsung S7 Edge無緣無故的壞掉了，怎樣也無法成功開機，過去沒有備份的資料統統都沒有了，好多有關旅行的紀錄，一直都有恃無恐的說之後再整理，都化為輕煙，使我心痛至極。這個教訓讓我醒悟，世事無常，可以的話，一定要把握現在，珍惜眼前仍擁有的人和事，以及終將褪色的記憶。
這次看的漫畫是Alien: Dead Orbit，故事內容轉貼自http://avp.wikia.com：
In the year 2295, within the depths of the crumbling fuel depot known as the Scphacteria, the disheveled Engineering Officer Wascylewski is sitting in the quarters of the observation deck alone. Before putting out his last of many cigarettes, he notices a terminal warning him that a threshold has been reached and requires immediate attention. Wassy puts on a compression suit, brings a case with him and takes a space walk across the station.
The comic goes into a flashback before the Sphacteria was in ruins; an unknown approaching vessel is noticed by the crew of the fuel depot orbiting the gas giant Pylos. Crewmember Park identifies that the ship is an old company freighter sold at auction to a private buyer. She also informs Captain Hassan that the ship contains Hypersleep chambers, and that the crew of the ship may still be in hypersleep. Communications Officer Rook is less than enthusiastic, believing that they may be pirates.
Hassan tells Park and Wascylewski that they are going to board the ship in their shuttle, alongside Medical Officer Harrow and Security Officer Torrenson.
The crew aboard the ship and explore its interior. They do not seem impressed with its conditions, with Hassan calling it a "deathtrap". Wassy notices a massive hole through a wall, citing that something had melted through the bulkhead. As he catches up with the rest, the crew encounter three humans in hypersleep chambers; two male twins and a female. Wassy uses a terminal and identifies that although the system is giving him much data, their vital signs seem normal. Hassan suggests waking them up, though Torrenson advises against it.
Park flips the switch but something goes awry. The coolant tank breaks and the chambers begin violently overheating, burning the members in stasis alive. The group panics and eventually manage to break the chambers open, bringing out the horribly charred and disfigured passengers, choking and gurgling and in a state of shock.
The comic flashes forward to Wassey removing his space suit after his walk and anxiously approaching the corridors of the Sphacteria. As he turns a corner, he hallucinates a Xenomorph, only for it to turn out to be a mesh of pipes and machinery. As he recovers from his scare, a loose cord blasts steam into his direction, covering his field of view. As Wascylewski looks into the smoke-covered corridor, a real Xenomorph emerges from the mist.
Wassy drops the case and runs into the medbay and hides, sitting down next to the corpse of one of the burned salvagers. He checks the countdown on his wristwatch, reading 04:03:25. The comic flashes back to Harrow desperately trying to treat the convulsing patients and is forced to give them sedatives. Wassy grabs a bottle of alcohol and attempts to leave to his quarters, but Hassan stops him and orders him to begin deciphering the ships systems.
Later, Wassy recovers data that reveals that the ship's last entry had them exchanging supplies for Chinese Yuan, with only frontier colonies in desolate space still using the currency. Wassy deduces that if the crew initiated emergency procedures aboard the ship, then the vessel would autopilot them to the nearest corporate location, in this case, the Sphacteria. Additionally, he identifies that the ship originally contained eight crewmembers, not three.
Park suddenly contacts Hassan, telling him that Harrow needs immediate help. As Hassan and the others return to the medbay, they are met with Park and Harrow attempting to hold down the seizing passengers, who had already been given a full dosage of sedatives. Suddenly, two Chestbursters erupt from the passengers. The others watch in horror as the Chestbursters escape from the medbay.
The comic flashes forward again, and Wassy realizes that he forgot the case after his encounter with the Alien and goes back to retrieve it, securing it to himself with medical tape. A sudden hull breach results in him having to perform an emergency override and seal the bulkhead, but not before losing enough air to pass out. As he reawakens he sees two Aliens by his side, one dragging him by foot down a corridor, before losing consciousness again.
When Wassy comes to, he finds himself cocooned in a nest next to an unconscious Hassan while the two Aliens that brought him there watch over the both of them. Wassy checks his wristwatch, reading 02:02:58, and has a flashback to when the adult creatures recently emerged. It is established that following Rook's disappearance, Hassan is also snatched into a vent in front of the remaining groups very eyes. Park, Torrenson and Wassy all start weighing up their odds of survival. A panicked Torrenson wants to take a shuttle and retreat into the scavenger's vessel until rescue arrives whilst Park is concerned about Rook and Hassan still being alive.
After a heated argument, the group decide to check up on Harrow, still in the med-bay surveying the last remaining passenger. The three hear a crash and rush to the med-bay where they are greeted with the fully awake passenger holding Harrow hostage with a scalpel by his neck. Park attempts to calm her down whilst Torrenson secretly goes for a stun baton. He lunges at the passenger but she is able to dodge. Torrenson fumbles into one of the operating tables, revealing one of the other passengers corpses to the female survivor. In a state of shock and rage, she brutally slits Harrow's throat and runs away. After Harrow bleeds out, the rest attempt to catch the female passenger. The group are too late, as they watch on as she takes a shuttle to her ship. The shuttles umbilical however, is still attached, causing it to be propelled back into the Sphacteria. Wascylewski jumps to the floor for cover as the shuttle explodes into the station.
The comic returns to the hive, with one of the Aliens moving towards Wassy. Laughter in the distance suddenly lures both Aliens away, allowing Wassy to break free and escape the nest with the case he originally set out for. He looks back at Harrow, still unconscious and cocooned and reluctantly leaves him. Wassy follows the sound of the laughter, ringing out like a beacon, until he finds Torrenson, drunk, demented and alone, right before the two Aliens he purposely lured out emerge from the darkness behind him.
A final flashback shows Wassy, Torrenson and Park in the aftermath of the shuttle colliding with the Sphacteria. The three rush to the cargo hold, in which Wassy retrieves a case. The case, that was so important to Wassy in prior flashbacks, is revealed to contain mining charges, the crew's last hope for survival. Wassy intends to lock everyone in life support and "blow the struts from the main deck"; since the station itself is modular, they'll be able to use the module like a psuedo-lifeboat and wait for rescue. Park suddenly hears a noise within the darkness of the cargo bay, and a Xenomorph suddenly emerges and attacks the group. Torrenson, traumatized, runs from the scene. Wassy and Park run towards the observation deck in hopes of solace and Wassy begins closing the bulkhead, telling Park to hurry. Suddenly, a second Xenomorph emerges. Wassy looks on in horror and despair as the two Aliens incapacitate and kill Park whilst the bulkhead to the observation deck closes, bringing the plot into full circle from where it began.
Back in the present, Wassy runs away from the two Xenomorphs who grab and kill Torrenson. He reaches life support, puts on a compression suit from a locker and prepares the mining charges. Ready to make leave, he notices a bag containing a spare box of cigarettes in the locker. Wascylewski gives into weakness and takes them with him before an Alien bursts from a ventilation shaft above him and attacks him. In a fit of confusion Wassy pulls at the bag which accidentally brings the whole locker down onto the Xenomorph. This buys him enough time to detonate a charger and blow a wall into the ship, bringing him into the atmosphere of space. Wassy's compression suit allows him to stick to the surface of the station, but the pursuing Alien emerges. As the creature closes in, Wassy detonates another charge, separating the life support module from the station. As Wassy hooks himself onto the module to stop himself slipping away into space, the Alien emerges again from the smoke, this time missing an arm with acid blood dripping everywhere. Wassy realizes this and unlocks a chamber containing several oxygen tanks. Wassy holds one up in front of the approaching creature and it's acid blood, floating through space collides with the tank, blowing Wassy away and the Alien into space.
Inside the module, now drifting aimlessly in desolate space, Wassy breathes a sigh of relief and takes out his pack of cigarettes. A terminal nearby suddenly warns that oxygen levels are critical and begins a countdown, starting at 04:02:56. Wassy, alone, smokes his last pack as the timer slowly counts down.
這個故事內容簡單，就是最基本的Alien劇情：不知情的船員遇到另一群被襲擊的船員，赫然見到怪物破胸而出，一行人逐個逐個在太空內的密室中被捕殺，最後總有方法擊退怪物。
老掉牙的故事，不用解釋太多，讓讀者爽就好。這種穩紮穩打的故事，倒也能令愛好者買帳。然而，我真的不太習慣本作的插敘式敘事技巧，極度頻密的時間線轉換，看得我頭昏腦脹。我是習慣了漫畫都出完了才一次過追看，這也還好，對那些每期追看的讀者而言，只怕會看得一頭霧水，每次都要翻開上一期重整故事線。
對於本作中出現的Alien，他們的表現也是平平無奇，一如以往的殺人爆頭、抓人築巢，不過在這個畫家的筆下，身形是更加類似人類了，真有點看不慣呢。
雖然說本作的敘事方式不敢恭維，可是本作的氣氛描寫真的不錯，處處讓人感受到壓逼感，就算是Alien正式出場前，也把氣氛弄得挺懸疑的。我也頗喜歡本作的結局，主角在經歷萬難後，終於擊退怪物，卻無奈面對空氣一點一滴流逝的情況，只能黯然抽煙，也能讓人感到在太空的寂寞與絕望。
畫功方面，不得不說作者Jame Stokoe真的很用心，由故事、作畫、上色都由他一手包辦，細節地方也不馬虎，機器的細節部份也有好好刻劃出來，吸引我仔細欣賞。至於人物的造型方面，有點東方漫畫的味道，總之就不是常見的美漫筆觸，但也很是有趣。
總的來說，本作是一部平穩的Alien故事，沒有特別的伏筆，就是爽爽而已，但我也覺得很不錯的。而在觀看後要馬上看wiki了解故事線，也可能只是我理解力低下罷。
80分。
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