Aliens: Berserker #1-4 (of 4)

is one of the better Aliens comic book limited series I've read. Actually I had just finished a serious novel when I started to read issue #1 and I was hooked. Just a semblance of a plot (a criticism offered by high-brow reviewers) but in the trade-off, characters are fleshed-out and developed and more important, there is action--lots of it. Xenomorph hunting and yes, xenomorph killing. This series is fun, fast-paced and will leave you satisfied (well, after the novel I sure was). There's a graphic novella dealing with a Berserker team----but I believe this series is better. And if what I'm saying here doesn't get you, consider this single-line blurb from Dark Horse itself: "A suicide squad of bug hunters takes on the biggest hive in history..." By the way, the MAX (Mobile Assault Exo-Warrior) is the one you'll most likely need in a head-on confrontation with a xenomorph, not to mention it's one of the coolest weapons ever. (aka Aliens: Frenzy) was a four-issue limited comic book series published by Dark Horse Comics from January to April 1995. It was written by John Wagner, drawn by Paul Mendoza, and inked by Andy Mushynsky. It was lettered by Steve Dutro, colored by Cary Porter and edited by Edward Martin III & Ryder Windham. Painted covers were provided by artist Kilian Plunkett. The series was eventually collected under the new name "Aliens: Frenzy" as part of in July 2008. Berserker was also adapted into a novelization of the same name by S.D. Perry in 1998. Characters from Berserker would go on to appear in (May-August 1995) and (2009-2010; link below), which therefore serve as sequels to the story. In the Aliens comics line, was preceded by (August 1994). It was followed by (April 1995) and (September-October 1996).

Solicitations of individual issues in ordinal sequence: () There's a ship cutting through space like a bullet, its crew a five-man surgical strike team with a single mission: Destroy Aliens! But when the crew members of the Nemesis land smack in the middle of a full-blown hive, they're not sure if it's the answer to their prayers or the beginning of a nightmare! The Nemesis team hunts and destroys Alien hives: small, medium, or large. But Terminal 949 carried a crew of nearly a thousand people, and that makes it the biggest hive in history. It would be a touch-and-go situation even with a properly functioning Berserker unit, and their particular slaughter-machine has been showing some... problems... lately. No back-up, no cavalry, and no hope, but there's one slim chance they can make it out alive -- if they're willing to make the ultimate sacrifice! The crew of space station Nemesis face off against the mother of all hives in a barrel-blazing, thermonuclear, blow-out bonanza! Their outer space paradise has been infested, and this issue they unload all they've got to make a clean sweep of the station. But the bugs apparently aren't the only problem in paradise: a traitor walks among them! Can they blow away the bugs and keep the knives out of their backs, or is paradise lost? It's down to the wire now and with more casualties than firepower, the crew of the Nemesis find themselves hip deep in trouble and watching the next load coming! Their Berserker unit is a slug of cold, dead steel and their only hope lies in the direction they least expect. Don't miss this mile-a-minute, slash-and-burn finale to the most pyrokinetic Aliens adventure ever!

It is called a Berserker team--reckless, desperate volunteers recruited by the Company to destroy alien infestations. Based on the spaceship Nemesis, it consists of three brutal ex-cons who do all the grunt work and the Berserker itself, code-named MAX: an armed and armored exoskeleton powered by the living brain of what was once a human, configured into an unstoppable killing machine. When the Nemesis is sent to a massive space station, D.S. 949, the team finds an alien hive, the largest in history, with nearly a thousand hapless humans cocooned and incubated. The team mission: to destroy the aliens while leaving the terminal intact. The mission seems like suicide to the bug hunters and their small support staff. And that is perfectly fine for the Company...which wants no witnesses left to the terrifying secret of D.S. 949. --

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