According to Destroy Comics, Paul Hope will be doing a cover for Dark Horse’s new Prometheus comic series. Below is our first look at his new cover:
Paul Hope’s Prometheus cover. Inks by Thomas Ragon.
Thomas Ragon has done the inkwork for this. You can see more of Paul’s artwork at his website Galerie 9 Art. The new series is due out June/July this year. Thanks to Ultramorph for the news.
As far as the Predators go, I guess I feel the same way, but in my case it's the Xenos and Engineers I'm worried about them changing. My guess as far as the Preators goes is that there won't be too much new info except some stuff about their relationship with the Engineers. On that count, I don't see DH doing anything major with that, due to studio restrictions.
Not necessarily new, but Patric Reynolds, who is doing the interior artwork for the Aliens series as well as some of the promo images we've already seen, just did a Tumblr post dedicated to his Aliens work. There were a few images I've never seen before, but I'm pretty sure they're from that Colonial Marines tie-in comic he did a few years back. Either way, it's still an interesting look at the style we'll be seeing.
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I am cautious about this but not necessarily about the story but rather how my favorite head hunting alien will be portrayed and they did mention that there will be some changes. Just what they change has me anxious.
Also.. I know you've got a hypothesis that Amanda maybe involved but I sincerely hope that we don't see her. I will say this.. I am expecting this Galgo character to live at the end of all of this.
That's the truth. At least from what we've seen of the interiors Ferreyra is doing it looks like that won't be an issue in this reboot.
I'm cautiously optimistic about this whole thing. It seems like Dark Horse has learned from past mistakes, and is approaching this in a smart way. I just hope we don't have to wait much past July for it to hit stands; although I have no problem with delays to make things better.
High-quality art would've made up for a lot of TWW's other shortcomings
Agreed. I actually liked Herk Mondo.
Seriously, who says an ALIENS comic can't be just stupid fun?
They can do what they want with the Engineers-- since very little has been expanded upon since Alien. By the time "Paradise" is released, I doubt that what they do in the comics would matter much anyway. I'm just more anxious about what they do with the Predators. That's the only thing I'm more wanting to find out about.
I'm just wondering what everyone thinks we'll get as far as exploration of the Engineers. I doubt we'll get much that's concrete, but it's a good opportunity to explore a bit more how they operate.
That much is indeed very true.
Guess we will have to wait and see what happens then..
It was effectively on ongoing series for a solid 7 years, with a number of series running concurrently. Then several more series along with one shots and crossovers ran for another 5 years, before it petered out.
I am not going to deny the possibility of that happening, but as you said-- it's a very limited appeal. I'm sure it will generate some fairly decent sales numbers but nowhere near the likes of Star Wars, Marvel, or DC. Sure, years ago it had hit the charts but compare licensed movie properties to on-going comic titles like Spider-Man or X-Men.. they don't compare.
I would've liked it if they continued on with the older stuff.. But I suppose one way or another a reboot in a sense was bound to happen. I just didn't think it was going to be this way in the EU. I mean everything gets rebooted once in a while.. maybe every thirty or so years as far as comics are concerned. I guess it was Alien-Predator's time to get rebooted.
Kind of sad too, because I have a lot of nostalgic value to the old stuff. I really had fun reading the stories, almost none of them really pissed me off (Top Cow's AvPvWvD OverKill was the only one which really pissed me off.. a Predator anal probing Jackie Estacado.. What? And Batman/Superman vs Alien/Predator just... disappointed me.) or made me roll my eyes. I just had fun with them, and some of the characters I liked and grew up with like Machiko and Broken Tusk.
Nor do I. These stories are better told in short doses. That's all I want: more short series in the coming years. The pattern of boom and bust quite frankly sucks.
And you know what? Despite me being an avid Alien-Predator fan.. I don't want one.
This is sadly.. sadly true.
Even without the AvP films, I doubt that they would be churning out titles the way they did before. I mean 1999 to 2000 was around the time of their last publication.. which was Alien vs Predator vs Terminator.
I really don't expect an on-going series to be happening after these reboot comics.
But that was 15 years ago and runs the risk of derailing too far off topic.
Arguably, 2009/10 was a similar failed reboot because it was too tied to 20 year old continuity and the tone just didn't fit the scope of the story they were trying to tell, especially with TWW. If anything needed a darker tone and more sense of grand scale, it was TWW.
Hopefully they get it right this time, because if they don't we'll probably be waiting another few years after the Prometheus sequel for anything more. I'd like more comics between now and, say, 2017.
It was bad, but dropping all three series for almost ten years? Overkill.
Which is actually kind of sad when you think about it because I would've liked to see the continuation of where the open ending of Three World War left off from. We saw multiple Queens in close proximity of each other and you had the Killer Predators actually looking them over as if they had contingency plan all along. I would've liked to see where that was gonna go.
Now.. we're not gonna get it. Probably never will get it.
Yeah, I remember that too!
We were supposed to get an explanation to why the Xenomorphs had those unusual features and I was looking through Three World War to see if we ever got them.. Never really did. Don't get me wrong... I can read most of the old EU comics and generally not get pissed off but I was shrugging my shoulders and kept on reading.
The art was terrible though.. Mmm.
http://www.comicvine.com/podcasts/the-invincibly-super-massive-comic-book-podcast-of/1600-243/
Kind of a long Podcast and it's from September or October of 2013. So he might have changed the initial story of what he had in mind but the gist of it was, Predators were going to be putting this old Hunter out to pasture to have this one final hunt.
Sounds like he changed the story a bit after all.
Really? I need to find that. Last thing I saw was an interview with Williamson at a convention where he said that we won't be getting things from the Predator perspective. As has become my tagline: We'll have to wait and see how it turns out.
Ironic considering that's what we maybe getting in the Predator comics according to the Comicvine Podcast interview with Williamson.
That's because Hunter's Planet was written as a novel sequel to Prey, and was published some five years before the novel adaptation of War. Hunter's Planet was retconned with the publication of War and Three World War cemented that.
Of course some folks can argue that Hunter's Planet can still happen.
I would hope that they keep the Yautja concept as a whole. Period. But something tells me that's something which will likely not be referenced at all (never was mentioned in the old comics) and unless new Predator novels are coming out which doesn't seem to be the case, I don't think we'll be seen the Yautja mythos returning to the scene anytime soon.. despite the Yautja concept being the generally accepted depiction of the Predators. Like you, the Yautja concept is something I grew up with and I hope they keep the core concepts. Long shot, fat chance but I hope they keep those elements.
The "old testament" isn't even internally consistent. The inconsistency between Hunter's Planet and War is a glaring example
As long as it's good, I don't mind a re-imagining of the predator mythos. I would prefer something that's not a radical departure from the old EU. The Hish was a radical departure. The Yautja concept isn't perfect but it's what I grew up with. I hope they keep some elements of it.
To be fair to darkhorse though that initial run with Ripley, Newt, and Hicks was before Alien 3 came out.
You kinda kill the deadliness of a creature if you can trap it in a room and experiment on it.
Plus I think it's kinda neat that Ripley would wipe out the species.
Well, that and it makes the Scientists in Resurrection look really, really dumb if she didn't.
They don't have to, but since there's no eggs uh...
After Alien3 it should be a requirement that they replace Xenos though, otherwise Ripley's sacrifice literally means nothing.
Any reason in particular for this train of thought?
Where-as already from what we've seen they are being creative (New Engineer weapons) and Realistic. (No direct links to any particular character.) And thanks to Prometheus no more stagnation, I honestly feel this'll be the next golden era of AVP comics.
And as for "Everything's gotta go somewhere." Yeah another universe.
And you really gotta stop worrying about them changing the Predator, from what I can see they don't care a lot about the Predator from(Very little info/pics) and there will be no Super Preds.
Indeed.
I thoroughly enjoyed the old EU and while some of the stories could've been better, I still relatively enjoyed them. Though it's more of the AvP and Predator stories which I enjoyed more than Aliens. But I don't think Fox would really go out of the way to jettison something out of their canon-- since they label everything as such and well.. the whole reboot thing going on is the reason why I prompted the discussion of the multiverse.
Everything's gotta go somewhere even if it doesn't fit.
They already did once, namely with the Hish mythos. And that was just... cringe worthy.
I just hope that in future EU stories, we don't see Predator slave trades or Predator Kings and Queens.
Are you afraid they'd reinvent Predator culture?
Technically speaking, this is a new continuity altogether which references the films.. sans the AvP movies.