COMICS: Predator #1

[Sabres21768]

Cover art for the new Predator series, set to debut this year, has surfaced.

Honestly...I can't say I'm liking this very much.

These just don't seem like Preds to me.

Written by John Arcudi, art by Javier Saltares, cover by Raymond Swanland.

The world's attention is focused painfully on a brutal third world Civil War, a merciless sectarian conflict sparing neither soldier nor civilian, grandmother nor child. But amidst the terror and carnage, where great nations and powerful interests jockey for position and advantage, another blood feud rages in the shadows, one no more humane but decidedly less human. Two warring tribes from the stars have chosen Earth's killing fields as their arena, with each clan sworn to eradicate the other . . . and all who stand between them. Each is the other's prey, each the other's Predator.

32 pages $3.50, in stores on June 24.

 

[FACEBOX]

I can understand why some won't like it.

Aliens were made into mere beasts in AVP-R, and now it seems that Preds are being turned into marines. I'm not sure what people are thinking nowadays? It's like they've never heard or seen any of the prior movies/comics, and simply pull things out of their rear end because they think it looks cool.

I'll have to wait and see, but things don't look too good right now.
The jungle hunter atmosphere seems to be gone.

 

[A-1188]

I wouldn't turn my hopes down so fast. Keep in mind that usually in the world of comics cover arts differ from what's inside the comic book pages. The cover art and comic art are done by 2 different artists usually, not to mention they sometimes release cover art variants.

 

[Nocturne]

Is an interesting image, but looks like it would fit more comfortably in the pages of Warhammer 40,000 than the Predator universe

 

[Jaycepticon]

I'm getting a Halo vibe from it. I'll probably check it out when it comes out

 

[AdamBombOi]

I'll check it out, but it looks pretty damn stupid... and I hate saying that.

 

[Toast]

I'm getting a Halo vibe from it. I'll probably check it out when it comes out

Yea same here

 

[ONEYE]

Honestly...I can't say I'm liking this very much.

These just don't seem like Preds to me.

I do not like it at all.

 

[Randysgut]

whos the moron that allowed this to happen??

 

[prefused]

whoops. someone is trying to sell the Predator franchise to the WH40K/HALO kids.
i know it's a huge market with money to burn, but this will not work.

having said that, i really dig the artwork. and if they make a game based on it, i'm in.

 

[SpawnFan]

lol what the hell is this?!

That has nothing to with Predators!

 

[Kuzeh]

Great art...
but no Predator vibe at all...

 

[Predrhone]

I agree with everyone here... Raymond Swanland is one of my favorite fantasy artists, but the summary smells profusely of dog mess.

 

[Mesa]

I agree, for good predator comics, go HERE.

 

[Bardoon]

Looks like a big "Predator clan civil war" storyline.

 

[playafree]

uh..... where's the original look.. Yuk!, WACK!!

 

[hairlesswookiee]

Is an interesting image, but looks like it would fit more comfortably in the pages of Warhammer 40,000 than the Predator universe

yup...i'm gonna be completely honest. the first glimpse of that picture made me think it was Chewbacca and some Clones from episode III

 

[Karatka]

I'll table an alternative view. This has got me far more interested that I expected to be.

Since the mid 90s, Dark Horse has basically been content to beat the Predator theme to death, and then flog the corpse. Even the best of the recent novels have just been thematic variations.

Here, though, they've tried to do something genuinely new - a Predator civil war. Hence we get designs that look like war-grade versions of the hunting gear we're used to. Yes, there's a VERY strong Warhammer 40K feel to the cover... but it's a civil war between rival factions of ultratech headhunters. It's not inappropriate.

Whether it is still recognizably Predator is going to depend on the writing - but that was always the case.

 

[bagelsncheesey]

I'll buy for the art, but that's about all.

Maybe it will surprise me.

 

[playafree]

i will probably still buy one just to see what the story is about and hope the predators don't look too out of the norm...