Perfect Organism: The Alien Saga Podcast
TV & Film
The announcement of Alien leaving Dark Horse for Marvel sent shockwaves through fandom, and for good reason. After more than three decades with the venerable underdog publisher, Alien was going to an entertainment powerhouse.
Many of us felt like this was either very good news or very bad news. Either way, the announcement has had fandom on tenterhooks for the past year. Who would write these stories? What would they have to say? Would Marvel—and, by extension, Disney—understand Alien enough to get this right?
Well, we at Perfect Organism are delighted to bring you this wild, nearly two-hour interview with Phillip Kennedy Johnson, the man writing these comics—an interview that essentially serves as an extended "yes" to the question of whether Marvel knows what it's doing with our beloved franchise.
Phillip is a lifelong Alien nut with an abiding love for the property and a passion to get it right. In this interview, Jaime and Patrick have the opportunity to speak with Phillip about what that means. What Alien is really about. What these comics are going to attempt to express. How to tell stories that feel immediate and relevant in the world we inhabit.
This interview is many things, but perhaps most of all it's a love letter. A love letter to comic books, and a love letter to that moment we get to cherish time and again when we realize how many deeply, beautifully nerdy fans are out there around the world.
We hope you love it. This is one of our best.
Stay tuned for Building Better World-submitted questions at the end, and stick around after the credits for a sneak peek at a new show we think you'll love!
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130 // Interview With Scott Sigler, Author of Aliens: Phalanx
129 // We're Going In | Five Years of Perfect Organism: The Alien Saga Podcast
128 // Taste the Rainbow: A Minisode About Those Psychedelic New Lanard Toys
127 // Dark Elegy: The Astonishing Music of Alien 3 (In Defense of Alien 3 Part 7)
126 // Special Presentation: Shit Show, Episode 1 (AVP 2004)
125 // Looking Back on an Unforgettable Year in Fandom
124 // A Last Goodbye: Finding Ripley Part 2 (The Forbidden Planet Part 9)
123 // Alien: Survival - A Vision for a New Chapter
122 // Finding Ellen Ripley: Part 1 (The Forbidden Planet Part 8)
121 // Alien 3: The Unfilmed Script: An Interview With Director Stevie J Douglas
120 // Open the Door: Alien and the Cinema of the 1970s (The Forbidden Planet Part 7)
119 // Perfect Organism Reviews Memory: The Origins of Alien
118 // Nuke the Site From Orbit: Unpopular Alien Saga Opinions
117 // The Music of Our Fear: Jerry Goldsmith and the Impossible Score (The Forbidden Planet Part 6)
116 // A Nightmare, Revisited: Signs of Life
115 // New Frontiers: A Cerebral Ridley Scott (The Forbidden Planet Part 5)
114 // I Don't Ever Blink: Ridley Scott and the Nature of Genius (The Forbidden Planet: Part 4)
113 // The Fantastic Dark: HR Giger and the Poetics of Fear (The Forbidden Planet: Part 3)
112 // A Two Year Alien: Covenant Anniversary Roundtable
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