"Humanity's encounters with the deadly extraterrestrial ""bugs"" have had distastrous, lethal results. But how did this species spread across the galaxy? Find out in ""The Theory of Aliens Propagation,"" by _Aliens: Outbreak_ writer Mark Verheiden (screenwriter of _The Mask, TimeCop, Battlestar Galactica_) and artist Mark A. Nelson. And in ""The Alien,"" the xenomorph infestation that rendered Earth all but uninhabitable in _Outbreak_ comes to a head as the exiled human population negotiates with the ""Space Jockey"" species intent on exterminating the infesting xenomorphsand Earth!"