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Marvel has been having an excellent turn of miniseries tying its superhero characters in with Disney's new science fiction franchises that it acquired when it purchased 21st Century Fox, from Aliens vs. Avengers to Predator Kills the Marvel Universe, and that winning streak has continued with the hit new series, Alien vs. Captain America, from writer Frank Tieri and artist Stefano Raffaele
As we noted when we did a preview on the first issue of the series, this series is set during World War II, and saw Baron Wolfgang von Strucker getting his grubby mitts on a pile of Xenomorphs, and he and the Red Skull team-up to commit some atrocities with these creatures, and in this CBR exclusive preview of Alien vs. Captain America #2, we see the next stage of this process.
ALIEN VS. CAPTAIN AMERICA #2 (OF 4)
FRANK TIERI (W) • STEFANO RAFFAELE (A) • Cover by LEINIL FRANCIS YU
VARIANT COVER BY DELIO DIAZ & FRANK ALPIZAR
Variant Cover by Mateus Manhanini • VARIANT COVER BY TBA
ALLIED, AXIS AND ALIEN POWERS COLLIDE!
CAPTAIN AMERICA leads BUCKY BARNES and the rest of the HOWLING COMMANDOS behind enemy lines in order to free one of their own – but no-one is prepared for the horror they discover at HYDRA’S most top-secret base! Meanwhile, has RED SKULL managed to find a way to harness the destructive might of the XENOMORPHS, or has he merely added to the carnage and chaos of the warfront? Either way, Captain America and his allies are about to face their biggest fight yet – that is, unless an unexpected “alien” ally sees fit to intervene!
32 PGS./Parental Advisory …$4.99
In the preview pages, we see the repercussions of the last issue. Captain America and Bucky had been tracking down Baron Von Strucker and Hydra. Meanwhile, they then ran into Nick Fury and the Howling Commandos, who were on an assignment of their own. The heroes then combined forces, and headed to a nearby village.
They were shocked to discover that the village's people had all been killed, with their chests all burst open. Except one woman, who seemed to have survived whatever killed the others, but she, too, had a Xenomorph chestburster erupt from her chest cavity.
The chestbuster started running away, but Captain America killed it with his shield. The heroes, though, were now searching for Hydra for ane entirely different reason than they originally started looking for them.
This led the heroes, in the preview pages, to a Hydra headquarters, which was ominously sealed up. Captain America broke open the doors, and the heroes entered the spooky place, and things got a lot spookier when the heroes discovered a pile of Hydra corpses, all of them having THEIR chests burst open, as well.
We know that the heroes are now trapped in a base that is likely teaming with Xenomorphs, but THEY don't know that yet, and we will see what that means for the heroes later in the issue. If you want to find out, you'll have to pick up a copy of Alien vs. Captain America #2 next week (before it sells out like the first issue of the series!).
Source: Marvel
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