Marvel publishing Aliens: What If..? series about the franchise\u2019s most hated villain Marvel ComicsMarvel is expanding its What If\u2026? line with a new series starring Aliens villain Carter Burke, to be written by star Paul Reiser. The What If\u2026? branding has been fairly synonymous with Marvel Comics for decades now. The stories feature Marvel characters in unusual circumstances, often with some kind of ironic, bleak twist. It\u2019s been a recognizable Marvel title, even branching out into the MCU for multiple seasons of an animated series. Now Marvel is branching What If\u2026? out of its comfort zone, bringing back one of Aliens\u2019 most iconic villains and the actor who played him. What If\u2026? Aliens will bring back Paul Reiser\u2019s Carter Burke for a new story Announced today via Marvel.com, Aliens: What If\u2026? will feature the first-ever What If take on the Alien franchise. The story will bring back manipulative Weyland-Yutani executive Carter Burke. What\u2019s more, Burke actor Paul Reiser, along with his son Leon, will join the creative team as writers on the book. \u201cFor years, people have asked me about Burke, what it was like to play such a \u2018bad guy,’\u201d Reiser told Marvel, \u201cto which my response was always, \u2018You say \u2018bad,\u2019 I say \u2018misunderstood.\u2019 Now the world will find out!\u201d In Aliens, Burke manipulates the colonists of LV-426 so that their presence will trigger a Xenomorph outbreak. He joins Ellen Ripley and a band of Colonial Marines on an investigative mission, intervening to prevent them from destroying the Xenomorphs. Burke\u2019s efforts lead to his own death when he mistakenly locks himself in a lab with a Xenomorph. The new What If series presents an alternate series of events where he survives the incident. Set 35 years after the film, Burke now lives in hiding with a daughter. However, the solicitations imply Burke is up to his old tricks and could be planning something as deadly as the LV-426 incident. The book is the latest of Marvel\u2019s long-running partnership with the 20th Century Fox brand, having previously published series inspired by Alien and Predator, including Predator vs Wolverine. Aliens: What If\u2026? #1 releases March 6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Marvel publishing Aliens: What If..? series about the franchise\u2019s most hated villain Marvel ComicsMarvel is expanding its What If\u2026? line with a new series starring Aliens villain Carter Burke, to be written by star Paul Reiser. The What If\u2026? branding has been fairly synonymous with Marvel Comics for decades now. The stories feature Marvel characters […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}