Comic Book Resources have posted up several preview pages from Dark Horses’s upcoming Alien, Predator and Alien vs Predator series (titled “Fire and Stone”):
Aliens vs. Predator interior drawn by Ariel Olivetti
“The “Fire and Stone” line will include five books in total, with the fifth still unrevealed. “Prometheus” will be written by Paul Tobin, with art from Juan Ferreyra. “Prometheus” #1 is set for release on Sept. 10, with subsequent series then launching biweekly in this order: “Aliens,” “Alien vs. Predator” and “Predator.”
Comic Book Resources also have the un-coloured interiors by Patrick Reynolds for Aliens and Chris Mooneyham for Predator, making for 12 pages of Aliens/vs/Predator preview goodness. Thanks to Ultramorph for the news.
Xenomorphs should have a raptor-like predatory cunning. Predators should be tactical and skilled
Most definitely. Hopefully DH blows our minds with their answers to the AliensversusPredator.net interview. We also have the second Titan book in late July to tide us over, I suppose.
I think they'll establish that Elden is some kind of older model synthetic with human tissue; something like a Replicant. On the other hand, you may be right about sentience being the key to whether the goo effects an organism. Cavalorn speculated back when Prometheus was out that an individual's mental state and motivations may be key to how the goo effects them, so maybe DH will go in that direction.
As far as Engineer tech and real science, I'd say to expect a small amount of real world science, but for it to mostly be "magic."
Is Engineer tech going to be at least somewhat rooted in known science or is it going to be completely out there in that it might as well be magic to us?
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All the female characters would look like Glory....
One panel...maybe the guy liked that piece of A:CM art and wanted to incorporate it into the comic? I'm very certain that 99.99% of the comic won't be based on A:CM art
Wow, nice and cheap way to make comic books these days.
Not likely, but even if the panels are differently colored.. A trace is still a trace.
I know that photo references are used a lot in comics but there is an acceptable boundary. The Aliens in that panel look like they were treated in photoshop with some filtering. The lines even match up for the rib cage areas. Aside up a few additions and tweaks, this might even be straight up filtering and tracing.
How tall were they in the game? They seemed decent, but I don't think they were 8' tall.
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Hmmm
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Good catch...it seems like the pygmy xenos are an artistic f*ck up
In the comic Predator Race War, there's a panel with what looks like a 12ft predator
Agreed. If you look at some of the "Aliens" panels, you can also see that the xenos there would tower over the humans if they stood up straight.
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I completely understand that people have some (justifiable) reservations about this whole reboot/relaunch, but I'm a bit more willing to cut this stuff some slack. DH could easily clean up those few panels where the xenos looks a bit short.
Most likely it just changes by scene, due to art style.
I don't think it will, but there will definitely be quite a bit of action as the foundation of AvP is aliens and predators going at it for our entertainment. I mean, the Prometheus, Aliens, Predator, and AvP series will all have some gore in them. For all we know, the previews are simply showing us more action-oriented pages. Again, I think we should reserve judgment until the final product is released.
If action and gore isn't your thing, you'll probably like the AvP series the least. The Prometheus series will likely have the least gore
I am not trying to deviate the topic but I would love to see Dark Horse make a try at Star Trek comics as the IDW run is quite forgettable.
I am mostly annoyed that they focus on comics based on the new movies, barely doing any stuff in the original universe/timeline that established the franchise in the first place.
If IDW doesn't want to do more work with the original IPs then perhaps another publisher should.
Back to the main topic, it is not actually the art or the size of the xenomorphs that disappoints me but rather the indication that Dark Horse will just publish mini series along the traditional formula; focus on action and gore.
There is nothing wrong with doing that sometimes but I would really like to see the writers experiment more with storyline concepts and not use only Aliens as a basis for stories.
I think someone on this forum once wrote that the planned Alien 3 would have been sort of Film Noir (with a bit of horror), continuing the trend of putting the Alien movies in different kind of genres (Alien - horror/thriller, Aliens - action/thriller)
I would love to see stuff like that. (No, I am not suggesting an eventual romance genre story yeez)
It's fantastic compared to Three World War. Whether it's better than Civilised Beasts is arguable
Not crazy about that mutant alien man though
But I am starving for some new elements in this franchise.
True but I think it's always wise to judge after the release of the final product. Right now, it's premature.
Even if the aliens do end up being drawn really badly in the new series, they might be total wrecking machines in the story. Of course, it would be nice if we could have good art and good story.
I wouldn't say that Alien-Predator is the only thing which is being put out to replace Star Wars. And I doubt that Alien, Predator and Prometheus would be on-going anyways where as Star Wars was on-going (I think even DeConnick said it wasn't going to be on-going).
Dark Horse going to be focusing more on creator owned projects and developing more superhero titles, this is likely to cover the gap which Star Wars is leaving behind.
Replacing SW.
If the reviews are good I'll get a set but this has turned me off buying them monthly.
I doubt that they would change the designs and size of the Aliens.. But then again, I could be wrong about that since they have changed the artwork on some of the covers. So I suppose it's not outside the realm of possibility in changing the artwork.
Not sure how far they are in the creative process in all of this though.
Also worth pointing out that we don't know for sure that those are regular Xenos. They could be smaller, Deacon-related aliens like what we saw on that Palumbo cover.
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Yeah!
Wtf is with the Aliens.
Someone should tell the writers that even the hardcore devoted fans won't be picking these up until some drastic design changes are made, we don't want stunted shitty Aliens.
I am a big comic book fan and have read several Aliens comics in the past, but I gave up on them as they tried to be much like the second movie instead of good story telling.
Sadly from that one drawing it seems the new line of Aliens comics are more of that.
Really a shame
Looks like I'll only be picking up Prometheus, if that.
Based on the strength of this image:
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when are we going to see some 'ALIENS ATTACKS!' trading cards get released?
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-Windebieste.
With flat heads...
Disgusting.