Marvel is turning the What If…? spotlight on the Aliens franchise for a five-issue mini-series asking the question, “What If…Carter Burke Had Lived?”
Written by Paul Reiser, Leon Reiser, Adam F. Goldberg, Hans Rodionoff, and Brian Volk-Weiss, with art by Guiu Vilanova, Reiser brings his character back to life, to answer the age-old question.
For years, fans of James Cameron’s legendary Aliens questioned whether Carter Burke, a company man more hateable than the Xenomorphs themselves, had actually survived the traumatic events on the terraforming colony Hadley’s Hope. Thirty-five years later, Burke is eeking out a cursed existence on a backwater asteroid. With his once-promising career in the toilet, Burke’s only remaining purpose in life is to care for his daughter, Brie. She hates him, probably for being a horrible person. And when she finds out what he’s up to now? It’s not going to be a friendly reunion. Has Burke learned his lesson, or is he about to get all of his companions killed again?
In a press release from Marvel Comics, Reiser said, “For years, people have asked me about Burke, what it was like to play such a ‘bad guy,’ to which my response was always ‘You say ‘bad’, I say ‘misunderstood.’ Now the world will find out!”
Aliens: What If…? #1 arrives on March 6, 2024.
