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.
I'm most interested to see what "crazy" thing they have planned, which Williamson alluded to on Twitter.
On another note, I like how they seem to be drawing inspiration from Prometheus concept art. I'm hoping that we at least get some interesting, otherworldly aesthetics out of these series. Note the above-ground rooted plants:
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However, notice that he doesn't really talk about Predators, other than claiming to love it
Pretty much. I would think either September or October.
Reading the article, especially on page two is that Williamson seems to be focusing more on using Predator and Predator 2 as inspiration for his story. Is he dropping PREDATORS? I most certainly hope so.. I truly do hope so. But something tells me that's just the writer of the article once more paraphrasing.
I can agree to that.. More or less.
Works better that way imo.
I figure that we might see Predators doing the Blood Ritual or something.. that's probably it. I don't know what to expect but at the same time I am wondering about a lot of things. I asked those things which are on my mind at the fan Q'n'A.
I was re-reading some of the interviews from Newsarama, and reading some of Sebela's statements-- doesn't really seem to suggest that it maybe shoe-horned into the old EU continuity. I've had someone else look into this as well and in his opinion, the interviewer who was talking to Sebela may have paraphrased or took what was said a bit out of context, or misinterpreted it. I'm not too sure.
Still confused on a few things though..
http://www.newsarama.com/20731-dhc-s-allie-unleashes-details-scope-of-prometheus-aliens-predator-line.html
Yup, having some good-natured April Fools fun. I thought the Tholian was a nice touch.
The link doesn't work and that picture looks like a Tholian from Trek.
Also, Amanda Ripley is going to be in this comic series too? Yeah, this whole thing sounds dumb
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Giffs. Of all things, Giffs.
http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id4114
Even if there is a "code of honour", each individual predator decides how strictly he'll observe it on an actual hunt, especially if the predator is hunting solo. In Prey, it's obvious Broken Tusk is a predator who actually takes honour seriously, whereas many of his students couldn't give two sh*ts about honour when the senior hunters are no longer around. They just want to murder whatever crosses their path
I also have a problem with the word "traditional" being thrown around when it comes to Predators, since there's so much variety and uniqueness shown in both the movies and the EU that Predators' sport-hunting practices could be very similar to human sport-hunting practices - that there isn't so much "tradition" as there's individuals (or at best, small groups, tribes, or clans) who have personal preferences. Each clan might have internal "traditions", but they certainly aren't "traditions" that apply to the entire species.
Who knows...maybe a good writer in the future might be able to make the "Super" Predators actually super. They don't come off as super in Predators. They come across as extremely arrogant and careless, even moreso than regular predators...and they end up dying rather stupidly (especially Tracker)
The Super Predators resemble the "Killers" of the 2009 series more than they do the Hish. I think it would make more sense to equate Supers and Killers as opposed to Supers and Hish
Oh I agree that both are lame concepts and I would rather they didn't exist at all, but I also don't like the idea of the Super Predators being labeled as Yautja when the movie suggest that they are something similar along the lines to what a Romulan is to a Vulcan. So if you ask me, they shouldn't be labeled as Yautja at all.
I don't like the Hish or the Super Predator concept neither, so I agree with you there. However the Super Predators are supposed to be a cousin race or species to the traditional Predators. It wouldn't be too far-fetched to write the Hish as the Super Predators, and suggest that the Yautja and the Hish descended from a common ancestor but one branched off the other. This could also explain the cultural differences and the different hunting practices. Thinking about it now, the Dog and Wolf analogy isn't that too far off but neither would be comparing Chimpanzees to Banobos. Chimpanzees sort of have cultural differences to Banobos.. Chimps are aggressive and violent, and use violence to sort out pack issues where as Banobos believe in making love, not war to solve their problems.
What would make me either pass these books, or read them is if they write the "original" Predators as they were depicted in the first two films, but I wouldn't really like it if they were using the attack dogs in the hunt. I mean previous material suggested that the traditional hunters abhor the idea of using attack dogs, as seen in Three World War and even Evolution. So I would have problems with the traditional Predators using the attack dogs. I really hope those things we saw aren't hell-hounds, and given the look of the anatomy as they have six legs and different bodily build.. I don't think they are but.. I can't be too sure.
I like neither the Hish concept nor the Super Predator concept...but if I had keep one, I'd prefer Super Predators to Hish. Of course, my first choice would be to have neither. Yautja and Bad Bloods is what I've always been fond of.
It sounds like this new series will probably stick to the "original movie predators". I've always felt like Yaujta are a solid expansion of the predator mythos based on the clan in Predator 2. I can only hope that this reboot keeps some elements of the nomadic, clan-based Yautja who hunt for both sport and honour. Aside from Steve Perry's Yautja, I thought Jeff Vandermeer's version of the predators in South China Sea was quite good.
No arguments, but I want to hear somethings from the writers themselves. Any wrong in that?
Unpopular opinion, but I thought Rebellion did that quite beautifully. I loved AvP2010. I would go as even far as to say that might as well have been the third AvP installment in continuity with the AvP movies.
I don't think that they really so much as care about maintaining the reminder of two less than well received films. Granted I liked the AvPs, again another unpopular opinion but if anything merchandise is really meant to hook in the fans, reel them in and grab them for whatever cash that they can really dish out to obtain said items. Fans collect, for one reason for another.. Either way, Fox and the partners ends up getting the profits. It's about the money as far as merchandise is concerned.
The Hish concept, as... awful as that pill was to swallow could still be used in Predator novels or such. Just write the Super Predators as Hish and the regular Predators as Yautja, there you go.
The point is that just because one writer chooses to not incorporate a plot element from a source doesn't mean that source "isn't canon" anymore in the grand scheme of things - it just means that one writer is choosing not to let that source color the story they want to tell.
Case in point: the upcoming Predator comics not having Super-Predators, or 'Predators' not directly referencing the plots of the AvP movies, or the writers of the upcoming comics saying they weren't going to reference the old comics. That doesn't mean that stuff "isn't canon", just that the writers aren't saddling the new stuff with that baggage because it doesn't help them tell the story they want to tell.
AvP2010 referenced 'AvP' because Rebellion thought it would help their story.
Compare it to, say, the Hish concept - evidently FOX literally told other EU writers to outright not reference the Hish concept. That could mean it's been retconned out of existence per FOX, but who knows?
Well LeonardoDaTurtle over at AliensvsPredator.net's Fan Q&A asked Dark Horse on what Fox's stance is on AvP and their canonicity. So hopefully, we might get an answer on that. But I think we'll get something along the lines: "We're not an authority on what's canon or isn't" in regards to that question. Long shot to get an answer but hopefully we'll get an answer regarding that.
I don't see how merchandise has any bearing on the canon or storyline of the franchise. Merchandise is something which fans buy to add to their collection.. I'm sure there are many non-canonical characters in various franchises who have gotten toys and figures. But again, I don't see toys as having any real bearing whatsoever.
Ask the creators, I'm pretty sure I already know the answer.
Strongly and vehemently agreed.
I am glad that they are now accepting fan questions over at AliensvsPredator.net. Cause I asked maybe a couple and I hope that they answer them. Their answers will decide if I will buy the comics or just jump ship.
Can I ask how do you know this?
Explain "recently".
And how do you know Fox is still supportive of the AvP films in other media? The last ones were AvP2010 and Evolution but Evolution only had the temples, not so much Karl Bishop Weyland or any mention of Charles.
Some of us would like a clear and strict continuity like Star Wars. But obviously we are never, ever so much as going to get that. I was surprised that Scott Allie had outright stated that the films didn't even match up very cleanly. Or to some, not very neatly. As for the multiverse idea... well... I like the idea of it but so far... that idea seemed to be shot down when they decided to shoe-horn this into the overall EU, which is something that I don't agree with.
As if the movies were much better.
Hence why I'm a fan of "fuzzy continuity" (and I assume why others like a "multiverse" idea).
So what did we learn? Apparently, the female lead in this is Angela. And that some battles will be fought in space.
No disputing that. Absolutely no disputing that.
Scott Allie LOLed at elephantine Engineers.