Last year, Marvel Comics released one of its wildest crossovers yet with Aliens vs. Avengers from writer Jonathan Hickman and artist Esad Ribić. In the comic, Miles Morales faced a nightmarish fate ...

Be it sci-fi, immigration or even artificial intelligence, the concept of "aliens" mirrors how we define fear, fascination and the "others" among us. What springs to mind at the mention of "alien"?