Ridley Scott's Alien and James Cameron's Aliens are two of the greatest sci-fi movies ever made. When it was announced that Ridley Scott would be returning to deliver a trilogy of Alien Prequel films,

So, there's a io9 article about the Alien prequel that Ridley Scott is making. He says he is going to explain the story of the space jockey that was found in the first film. I am almost 100% positive there was a comic (Dark Horse?) that covered this.

Few directors can say they’ve had the same impact on the sci-fi genre as Ridley Scott. Scott first rose to popularity as a director in 1979 with his work on Alien, the genre-defining sci-fi horror masterpiece starring Sigourney Weaver. Just a few years ...