Bleeding Cool has posted an interview they conducted with Scott Allie and Joshua Williamson in regards to Dark Horse’s upcoming Predator comic series, along with some fantastic new cover images:
“With Predator at first there was a drive, at least on my part, to keep Predator sort of loosely connected to the large universe, but as the group and I worked together I started to see areas to blend the books and really make it a cohesive story. And it would be a disservice to the fans and readers to not go where the characters and story takes us.”
Note the Engineer-esqe weapon in this image.
Big Comic Page also has an interview with Paul Tobin about the Prometheus series but there doesn’t appear to be any new material in there. Thanks again to Ultramorph for the news.
Oh, I agree on this.
Here is the thing.. They're trying to shoe-horn all of this into the continuity but are completely dismissing the AvP films and not treating them as canon (I know a lot of people are cheering for that, I'm in the minority) but they're shoe-horning them into a continuity where some entries count the AvP films as such (unless Dark Horse is discounting those too) while tying them into two movies which don't count the AvPs and trying to tie it into a video game.
I'm not sure where the sense is in that, but if there is supposed to be.. I can't see it.
It could be that it's.. 3:00 AM in the morning where I am at and tired as hell but... Mind rephrasing that?
It would be a good idea and make sense if someone had written the Super Predators to be the Hish, and the traditional Predators to be the Yautja. But I doubt that will ever happen.
Predator: South China Sea is the best of the DH Press books, though.
All in all the Hish stuff was dumb but Forever Midnight did have some other interesting ideas in it. The whole book wasn't an abortion, it was just the Hish crap dragging down an otherwise interesting book. It did the "move people to a game preserve planet" several years before 'Predators' did it.
For those interested, here is a sneak peek at the new Prometheus comic coming out in September.
Mmmm.. September 10th.. Don't know what to say now.
Combine this interview with how Chris Roberson stonewalled me on Twitter when I asked about connections to the new novels, and I'd say that yeah, Xenomrph and I both called it on aspects of how this would all be connected.
And then her getting a phone call from Ridley Scott. What?
I think you're spot on. Dark Horse was probably doing this whole thing way back in July-October with really broad approval from Scott's office, only to have Fox step in and say "Oh by the way, we're doing a huge thing with a video game and novels in 2014, so now you have to change everything you've done so far and make it fit with our stuff."
Man, they're going to have to amaze me tomorrow.
Hmmm.. Interesting. Speaking of.. I found her Tumblr.
http://kellysue.tumblr.com/
Ooooooh ho ho ho ho... So this explains the changes. Lots, and lots of changes.
Looks like you called it Ultramorph. Looks like you effin' called it.
Which is... interesting.
To be quite honest, this just sounds all so damn confusing. All of it sounds really damn confusing because now that you think about it, it seems as if this was done for the whole Alien Anniversary "party" which is supposed to be happening this year.
I'm on the fence about this after seeing the panels. Then hearing the Aliens: Isolation connection.. Eeeeeeeh.. I'm sure the game will be good, definitely sure about that but this is just so damn confusing about where these comics fit, how they fit.
I am trying so hard to be positive. So, so hard.
We'll see.. We'll see.
http://comicsalliance.com/kelly-sue-deconnick-dark-horse-comics-prometheus-interview/
She hints at what seem like big shake ups in the production, perhaps explaining why we've been getting different lines from DH about stuff like canon over last few months. This is probably why the Deacons on the AvP cover were magically Photoshopped into standard xenomorphs, and why the newest Roberson interview had a new, Deacon-free Palumbo cover. Whole issues were done and illustrated. Very disheartening stuff:
She then drops a hint that perhaps there will indeed be an Alien: Isolation connection:
David? Or is she talking about the Deacon?
Randy Stradley was in the room as a sort of canon expert:
This interview has me more disheartened than anything else. No wonder the comics got pushed back until September 10th. I really hope we don't get some watered down, studio-interference-addled cash grab.
Hopefully that panel tomorrow has a more positive tone.
Hard to say... Compare the anatomical differences between the two. There are similarities, sure.. But some differences.
No quills on the back. The head seems to be different in terms of anatomical build, and there seems to be some bony plating on the head and maw.. the hell-hound doesn't have that looking at the pictures of these creatures here and pictures of the hell-hound.
Could it be they were infected by the Black Mutagen?
I would want to think the latter, but the former is also a possibility.
My guess? The flora is either from the black goo running amok and seeding random life, or this is another part of the planet than the small area we saw in Prometheus.
"Something is manufacturing breathable air down there."-Chance
When Shaw & Co. entered the Ampule room, they changed the mural to that of a Xenomorph holding an egg, my guess is that they kickstarted life.
What irks me the most is that here.. we have a traditional Predator who maybe using the dogs. That doesn't sit well with me because previous EU material suggested that traditional Predators abhor or at least, frown upon the idea of using attack dogs. This sort of was seen in Three World War, and to an extent.. AvP: Evolution.
I can understand the Super Predators using the dogs since they are dishonorable a-holes but the traditional Hunters? Doesn't sit too well with me, especially if they're supposed to be honorable.
I strongly disagree.
http://io9.com/discover-how-prometheus-continues-in-this-free-comic-pr-1553849788
https://www.avpgalaxy.net/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.kinja-img.com%2Fgawker-media%2Fimage%2Fupload%2Fs--GJokmJ6z--%2Fc_fit%2Cw_636%2Furlu3istqzkgdw2dsigd.jpg&hash=f314a36a558f5f9626a6a0c032d9779dc7c3b961
I love that picture. Looks like the Predator is pretty chill with the humans. Also, note the Alien vintage of the space suits.
I liked Criminal Enterprise up until the last half.
And Carey's stuff wasn't terrible.
Some parts were cool though, like the covert team of sociopaths that knew how the Aliens swarmed around and use countering techniques they trained on as a response.
I was so disappointed in it. Very 2D, boring space commies and stupid characters. And f**king hoverboards.
I do remember flipping through Steel Egg at a bookstore. I remember it was all right. Pretty interesting premise.
I can agree to that.
Edit-- oh yeah, and Aliens: Kidnapped is not my favorite Aliens series. It's unique, I'll give it that.
I have to ask out of sheer curiosity and this is genuine, sheer curiosity asking this but.. are there bits of the franchises which you hate, don't like or just.. don't agree with?
You thought
And yet the conversation continued on and on in an altogether civil manner for a long time - about 60 pages - after this melodramatically churched up "shitstorm".
When did he get chased away? I thought it just petered out.
That's what I'm thinking, especially since we'll probably see creatures that blur the line between the two species.
No... because even though they are a feature it's still about Prometheus.
But wouldn't that... make it an ALIENS comic if.. they're in there?