Saturday, October 17, 2020

ALIENATED³

ALIEN³ (1992)
dir: David Fincher

ALIENATED³
Cracked #276, November 1992
w: Tony Frank (Lou Silverstone)
a: John Severin

Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) is once again awoken from a coma having escaped in her last movie and landed in a penal colony on the planet Fiorina (Freedonia, a reference to the fictional country in Duck Soup).

Leona Helmsley was a real estate tycoon in the 80s and 90s.
She is the only woman on the planet which is disruptive to the prisoners and meets Clemens the prison doctor (Charles Dancer)

Clement tells her the rest of the crew is dead and they must perform an autopsy on Newt, the six year old girl, since she may be carrying an alien embryo.

She also must repair Bishop (Lance Henriksen), the android that was with them.

This was the debut movie of David Fincher. Although he's a big director now previously he had only been known for music videos.
He asks to be shut down.

Dillon was played by Charles S. Dutton.
Ripley and Clemens have an affair before he's attacked by the alien, which had hidden in the escape pod Ripley came in.
At this time, it was controversial that TV character Murphy Brown was a single mother.

Don Martin, long-time MAD artist, was poached by Cracked in the late 80s with the promise of more money and complete ownership. Here were the strips he did for that same issue.
UPDATE:

CRACKED VISITS THE ALIEN 3 SET
Cracked Monster Party #17, August 1992
w: Scott Franklin (Frank Santopadre) & John Leary
a: Walter Brogan
Mary Hart was host of Entertainment Tonight and there was a lawsuit that her voice gave one of her viewers seizures. It was the plot for an episode of Seinfeld.
The Alien parody I posted also has the scenes I posted with John Hurt, Harry Dean Stanton, Yaphet Kotto, and Ian Holm.

2 comments:

  1. Severin threw in a whole bunch of random bald guys. I spot Patrick Stewart on page 1; Telly Savalas on page 3, panel 4 (with trademark lollipop); and on page 4, Richard Moll as Bull from Night Court and Louis Gossett, Jr. in panel 5, Yul Brenner in panel 6, and Christopher Lloyd as Uncle Fester from the Addams Family movies in panel 7. I'm probably missing some.

    Also, although they weren't (all) bald, I think the guys on page 5, panel 2 are the original Three Stooges - Curly Howard, Moe Howard, and Larry Fine.

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  2. Regarding the Cracked Monster Party article, page 3: there really were some incidents of violence when Boyz N the Hood opened, including two separate fatal shootings, which led to a moral panic about the film.

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