Alien: Mystery of the poster in relation to Jack Kirby's Manhunter "The Stone of Vengeance"

 

leading from 

Alien : Afterthoughts

and 

Alien: Comparison to Manhunter 'Stone of Vengeance" by Jack Kirby

 

 

a) The poster for Alien

 

 

b)  1st page of Manhunter 'Stone of Vengeance" by Jack Kirby

Originally printed in Adventure comics #77 (1938))

Later reprinted in The New Gods #8 p37 (1971) 

Perhaps you could say that there's a bit of symbolism there but about this stone of vengeance but it's not as if the film's alien beast is supposed to be the avenger

 

 

c) So these bodies of people trying to get at the mysterious jewel some dead, others alive, would becomes this curious latticework on the floor that we do understand were most likely loosely based upon the organic architectural frame in Giger's paintings  The Spell I and II

 

 

d) The upper part of the idol becomes the egg while the green coloured stone of vengeance becomes the mysterious glow coming out through the crack