Many of the best creative teams in the industry today devote their talents often to bending the limitations within the format to more effectively and innovatively tell their stories, standing on the shoulders of those who came before them, like Jack Kirby and Hal Foster. Heavy Metal chiefly ran European-penned serials in an anthology, often with detailed hyper-violence, nudity, impenetrable psychedelia and all manner of bizarre fantasy worlds. In 1979, there had been few fully devoted comic adaptations of feature films. RELATED: Walt Simonson Reflects on "Alien: The Illustrated Story" But it may be deserving of even more praise, as an adaptation that might just be even better than the movie it adapted. A commercial darling at the time, the Alien graphic novel adaptation was the first comic to appear on the New York Times Bestseller List, reaching #7 on the mass market list. One of these came from a very unexpected place in hindsight, with 1979’s Alien: The Illustrated Story, the official comic adaptation of the Ridley Scott film, written by Archie Goodwin and drawn by Walt Simonson.
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