There's so many points you dive in to here to explore further but then I'd end up doing an analysis of an analysis and I'd end up going around in circles. I love the appreciation you have for horror, particularly in detailing the stages and buildup of effective terror and dread. If you're going to talk about Alien and The Thing I'm probably going to hang off your every word!
There's one thing that struck me, after Alex's, ah..... hyper-violent oopsy-daisy in the latest chapter, that just came to mind; I picked up Akira in UHD recently, a format I've really wanted experience it in for a minute. That whole sequence has a pretty ghoulish parallel to when Tetsuo breaks out of his hospital room for the second time, when the doctor and guards try to help him, only to become what I can politely describe as human cranberry sauce. You see it happen but it's shrouded in darkness, and you only really see the viscera in the blinking of the hallway lights. Alex having a power that can essentially turn people in to just mush is horrifying, and it was at that similar moment in Akira when the nightmare truly began. Just an interesting similarity that I 'enjoyed' (for want of a better way of putting it!). Please keep up the great work!