Darkseid pits the Man of Steel against those acid-dripping Aliens in SUPERMAN/ALIENS II: GODWAR.
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Bogdanove talks SUPERMAN/ALIENS II: GODWAR

In an exclusive interview with CINESCAPE's own Arnold Blumberg magazine, comic artist John Bogdanove talked about his work with Chuck Dixon and Kevin Nowlan to bring the Man of Steele face to face again with the popular, and vastly grisly, ALIENS, in SUPERMAN/ALIENS II: GODWAR.

"[It's] not really a direct sequel," Bogdanove told us, about the mini-series which begins in May. "It's another pairing with its own internal logic... The characters of the Aliens have evolved [visually] from movie to movie, comic book to comic book, and action figure to action figure. I couldn't ignore that, and in many ways the changes that have taken place are not arbitrary. Artists have modified Giger along the way to make the Alien more dynamic in a comic book, so I couldn't ignore the work."

The behavior and powers of the monsters evolved too, he told us. "[What] really sells this as an adventure is the aspect of the Aliens adopting the DNA of whatever host creature they inhabit. That makes the Alien the ultimate crossover character, because you could cross it with the DNA of anything. They never really explored that angle of it. It makes them a much more interesting character and how they can survive on any planet is that genetic adaptability."

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