The recently released Blu-Ray of Justice League Dark: Apokolips War includes an animated extra feature that could be of interest to Aliens fans.
The animated short film DC Showcase: Adam Strange revolves around an incident at a mining colony with more than a passing resemblance to a Weyland-Yutani "shake and bake" enterprise, from the construction of the buildings, and the outfits worn, to the vehicles employed on site.
The plot, too, is very much an Aliens homage, with miners accidentally opening up a previously-unknown nest of insectoid xenomorphs and releasing them on them on the colony.
However, unbeknown to the colonists, instead of Ellen Ripley they have the sometime superhero Adam Strange (voiced by Charlie Weber) in their midst.
Having been whisked away from his adopted homeworld of Rann by the fickle Zeta-Beam, Strange has been stranded on this distant colony.
The loss of his family - and realisation that he may never see them again - has pushed him over the edge and Strange has become the town drunk.
The colonists have no idea who this derelict really is, until he is stirred from his drunken depression by the existential threat of the awakened monsters.
While the flashbacks explaining how Adam got where he is at the start of the story are very "comic book superhero", the majority of the DC Showcase short is pure Aliens.
And who doesn't love a "mysterious drifter saves the day" story?
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