Alien Verses Captain America #3 - Marvel Comics

ALIEN VERSES CAPTAIN AMERICA No. 3, March 2026

Packed full of planetwide invasions, grisly infestations and some seriously scintillating close combat, those readers who enjoy witnessing Xenomorphs massacre both heavily-armed soldiers and hapless civilians with the same deadly precision will doubtless have enjoyed Issue Three of “Alien Verses Captain America”. Indeed, Frank Tieri’s plot for this twenty-page periodical races along at a truly breath-taking pace, and only occasionally pauses to allow the likes of Sergeant Nick Fury to momentarily mourn the deaths of his Howling Commandos before throwing its audience back into a writhing mass of all-devouring aliens.

However, such unrelenting storytelling does arguably result in the American author taking a few somewhat jarring short-cuts when it comes to explaining some pretty important events, like the Kree’s Supreme Intelligence being ruthlessly slaughtered by a heavily-mutated chestburster. Sure, this comic’s opening does a grand job in depicting the Empire’s initial fall before the razor sharp teeth and spiked tails of the extra-terrestrials on the planet Hala. But there’s no explanation as to how the ‘militaristic, blue-skinned humanoids’ subsequently manage to vanquish their merciless foes under the leadership of Supremor Mar-Vell.

In fact, apart from the Kree clearly assuming the mantle of galactic defenders against the Xenomorph hordes, this book doesn’t debatably provide all that much information about them at all – and seemingly supposes that any onlookers already know about their large, interstellar civilisation. Such an assumption can prove a little problematic at times, such as when Tieri suddenly introduces Yon-Rogg into the narrative from completely out of the blue, and due to the commander’s physical similarity to Mar-Vell, could easily be mistaken for the “decorated captain” himself – an oversight which isn’t clarified until Steve Rogers calls him by name several panels later.

Easily doing most of the publication’s heavy-lifting though has to be Stefano Raffaele and colour artist Neeraj Menon. Together the creative pair provide some gobsmackingly good layouts, and provide so many intriguing insights into the fall of Hala, that some perusing bibliophiles may well wish that this particular instalment of the mini-series went into much further detail as to the aforementioned fall of the Kree’s artificial intelligence; “The Gods of Pama were unkind to us that day. Many lives were lost.”

Writer: Frank Tieri, Artist: Stefano Raffaele, and Color Artist: Neeraj Menon