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Alien vs Predator Duel 30th Anniversary Retrospective (Fanbase Feature Crossover)

December 2, 2025·1 hr 56 min·10 clips

Ashley Robinson hosts a 30th anniversary retrospective on the Aliens vs. Predator comic with Fanbase Press president Bryant Dillon.

"Game over, man" is the handshake. Ashley Victoria Robinson starts without the usual duo, saying Jason is out and a fan base feature crossover is taking the lesson slot. Back to comics, friends. Bryant Dillon and Philip Kelly come in for a 30th anniversary look at Aliens vs. Predator: Duel, pitched as a return to comic books after the Godzilla 1985 retrospective. The crossover vibe shows up right away. The cold open gives the guests room, sets up the Fanbase Press connection, and makes it clear that Alien Earth and Predator fans are already close to home here. Then the episode gets to the good part: the choice. A distress signal lands in front of characters who know, at least by reputation, what happened after another famous call at LV-426. Nobody wants to become the next warning story. So the conversation settles into a clean horror question: do you stay alive by going cold, or risk the trip because someone might need help? The guests keep it loose. They laugh through the fatal confidence of "what could possibly go wrong" and notice how often the comic throws around "bugs." Under the jokes, the criticism is plain. The choice would hit harder if the comic gave its doomed people more specific hopes, obligations, or ordinary texture. One small dream would do a lot. The panel keeps imagining how a tiny personal reason to get home could make the carnage feel less abstract. That gives the lesson its bite. Duel comes across as messy in the interesting way, with empathy, genre momentum, and thinly sketched characters crowding the same page. The episode closes in crossover mode too, with Bryant's comics dot one plug and a Fanbase Press signoff.

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A comic-book-rooted crossover chat that gives Alien vs. Predator real thematic weight.

Ashley Victoria Robinson hosts a comic-book-rooted Alien vs. Predator anniversary conversation with Bryant Dillon and Philip Kelly, and that framing brings Geek History Lesson back to its comic-book roots.

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