Marvel Announces ‘Aliens vs Avengers’ with ‘Secret Wars’ Team Jonathan Hickman and Esad Ribić

Aliens vs Avengers #1 Cover by Esad Ribić

Whoever wins, we win. Marvel has announced Aliens vs Avengers, which pits Xenomorphs against Earth’s Mightiest Heroes.

The new series will be written by Jonathan Hickman (‘Ultimate Spider-Man’) and drawn by Esad Ribić (‘Secret Wars.’) The series marks the first crossover between the Marvel Universe and Aliens under Marvel’s 20th Century Studios imprint.

"Probably one of the coolest things about the project is how we've found really fun ways to 'Avengerize' Aliens and 'alien-up' Avengers," Hickman said in a statement to Entertainment Weekly. "I think fans will be surprised at how elegantly some of those things fit together. It really turned out to be a chocolate-and-peanut-butter situation."

The series will be a four-part mini that will be set in an alternate timeline that features an older Avengers team as they face off one of cinema’s greatest monsters.

"Hickman and Ribić are storytelling masters, and they bring a cinematic quality to this that seamlessly merges the high action and soap opera that Marvel fans expect with the deep terror and cosmic awe that the Alienuniverse so inspires," Marvel editor Sarah Brunstad said. "Watching them cut loose across the entire lexicon of these two great franchises is jaw-dropping. ANYTHING COULD HAPPEN IN THIS BOOK—get ready."

‘Aliens vs Avengers’ hits comic shops July 24th with ‘Alien: Romulus’ hitting theaters August 16.