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Updated: Predator: Life and Death #1 Preview

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Predator: Life and Death #1 preview is now online courtesy of Previews World. The two page preview gives us our first real look inside the pages of Predator: Life and Death, the newest Dark Horse series after Fire and Stone:

“Colonial Marines on the planet Tartarus battle extraterrestrial hunters over the possession of a mysterious horseshoe-shaped spaceship of unknown origin. The Weyland-Yutani rep wants the ship, and the marine captain wants to protect her crew. But neither objective is likely when a band of Predators attacks! Predator: Life and Death begins chapter one in a new story cycle involving Predators, Aliens, and the mysterious Engineers from Prometheus!“

Predator: Life and Death #1 preview is now online! Predator: Life and Death #1 Preview

Predator: Life and Death #1 preview is now online!

Alongside the preview, Previews World has also uploaded a short interview with the series writer, Dan Abnett: “I’m trying to play the marines as a credible, capable team of experienced soldiers. They’ve just been through a busy tour, and seen action, so they’re not rookies. There are no ‘warm bodies’… I guess that means that when the action starts, the casualties are going to matter. No one’s going to get dead because they do something dumb. They’re going to get dead because they’re up against something deadly. I want these to be rounded human characters, people we care about rather than ‘red shirts’.”

As well as the interview and the Predator: Life and Death #1 preview, the solicitations for April went online yesterday giving us our first glimpse at the cover art for the second issue of Life and Death and for the Mark A. Nelson variant cover art of Alien: Defiance #1:

Cover art for Predator: Life & Death #2 and the Mark Nelson variant of Aliens: Defiance #1. Predator: Life and Death #1 Preview

Cover art for Predator: Life & Death #2 and the Mark Nelson variant of Aliens: Defiance #1.

The name Mark Nelson should be recognizable to people as the man who did the interior artwork for the very first Aliens series published by Dark Horse in 1988. Predator: Life and Death #1 is due for release March 2nd 2016 and Aliens: Defiance #1 is due out April 27th. Thanks to Ultramorph for the links.

Updated 19/01/2016 – Bleeding Cool has shared an additional 4 pages from the middle of the first issue of Predator: Life and Death.


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  2. Ultramorph
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    Too soon to tell. I wonder when
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    the other Predators that Thiess designed will show up. "Hornhead" is on the cover of issue #3, so maybe then? It will be interesting to see if it's two separate clans competing against each other, or one group.
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  7. 426Buddy
    Posted
    Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Mar 22, 2016, 08:20:02 AM
    Quote from: 420Buddy on Mar 03, 2016, 04:26:38 PM
    Man TFAW takes forever to send their stuff and they're located on the other side of the country so I might have to order my stuff elsewhere, I cant take the wait on my stuff lol. I ordered more than human last Friday and I still don't have it, had it been amazon I would have had it Tuesday.

    Have you had it yet?

    The Predator L&D? Yep i've had it for a bit now, posted my thoughts in the L&D review thread. As for "More than Human" I did finally get my shipment from tfaw while back now, I sent you a PM thanking you for recommending it, did you get it? Anyway I enjoyed More than Human quite a bit, it was a nice fresh feeling story with unique and cool art and a badass Swanland cover :)

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  8. Corporal Hicks
    Posted
    Quote from: 420Buddy on Mar 03, 2016, 04:26:38 PM
    Man TFAW takes forever to send their stuff and they're located on the other side of the country so I might have to order my stuff elsewhere, I cant take the wait on my stuff lol. I ordered more than human last Friday and I still don't have it, had it been amazon I would have had it Tuesday.

    Have you had it yet?

    Quote from: happypred on Mar 22, 2016, 07:27:19 AM
    Really anticipating the next issue...things better heat up

    I'm sure they will. The ending was a nice ramping up towards more action.
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  10. 426Buddy
    Posted
    Man TFAW takes forever to send their stuff and they're located on the other side of the country so I might have to order my stuff elsewhere, I cant take the wait on my stuff lol. I ordered more than human last Friday and I still don't have it, had it been amazon I would have had it Tuesday.
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  11. Ultramorph
    Posted
    The hover bikes were cool! I hope we get to see some more new Marine tech.

    Life and Death seems to be off to a good start. Abnett was good at not hinting too much on what's coming next, so I might try and avoid spoilers more from here on out. I'm getting the feeling that this will be something special.
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  15. Ultramorph
    Posted
    That cover is definitely awesome! I can't wait to see what we have coming for the upcoming comics.

    I picked up the digital version today, because of course I can't wait for the mail.  :laugh:
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  17. Corporal Hicks
    Posted
    Posted by happy in the review thread: http://www.newsarama.com/28201-predators-vs-colonial-marines-in-predator-life-death.html

    Thought it wanted to be here too. Just about to read it.

    Quote from: happypred on Mar 02, 2016, 04:42:46 AM
    Looking forward to your review

    Thanks. I wont be doing proper ones on the website or anything. Just thoughts in the forums. I can't stand reviewing comics issue by issue. I'll probably do a complete one when the series is done though.  :)

    https://www.avpgalaxy.net/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.newsarama.com%2Fimages%2Fi%2F000%2F165%2F740%2Foriginal%2FPredator_LandD_4_cover.jpg%3F1456873908&hash=537c8fa08eba2ac0ff24f8f2f0845b3a61fea138

    From the interview. Is this the cover art for #4 do we think?
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  29. 426Buddy
    Posted
    Just preordered the first 3 issues. My wife is gonna be wondering about all these alien and pred comics coming in the mail lol. Seems like a good time to start collecting again though.
    Reply
  30. The Alien Predator
    Posted
    Quote from: SpreadEagleBeagle on Feb 25, 2016, 06:10:36 AM
    I like the idea someone one this thread threw around earlier about Predators preforming taxidermy... That would make it really creepy indeed. They could make them (the taxidermic bodies) really lifelike... Now picture a scene with our human protagonist stuck in a misty trophy cabinet, stumbling into an area with with stuffed humans, some of them his/her comrades, and then the Predator(s) start using that voice mimicking technology to really screw around with you.

    Oh God, that is brilliant!

    Have you read Predator: South China Sea?

    There's a eerie scene in the book where the Predator
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    mimics a main character's sister's dying screams to her. And later on, while fighting an army, the Predator is behind this wall and begins throwing the beheaded heads of their comrades across the wall at them while playing back their screams and dying noises to them. His intimidation worked as literally everyone apart from the leader shat themselves, especially as the Predator began to raise the volume of his playbacks.
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  32. Whiskeybrewer
    Posted
    Quote from: SpreadEagleBeagle on Feb 25, 2016, 06:10:36 AM
    I like the idea someone one this thread threw around earlier about Predators preforming taxidermy... That would make it really creepy indeed. They could make them (the taxidermic bodies) really lifelike... Now picture a scene with our human protagonist stuck in a misty trophy cabinet, stumbling into an area with with stuffed humans, some of them his/her comrades, and then the Predator(s) start using that voice mimicking technology to really screw around with you.

    That would be such a creepy scene. I love it
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  33. RakaiThwei
    Posted
    Quote from: SpreadEagleBeagle on Feb 25, 2016, 06:10:36 AM
    I like the idea someone one this thread threw around earlier about Predators preforming taxidermy... That would make it really creepy indeed. They could make them (the taxidermic bodies) really lifelike... Now picture a scene with our human protagonist stuck in a misty trophy cabinet, stumbling into an area with with stuffed humans, some of them his/her comrades, and then the Predator(s) start using that voice mimicking technology to really screw around with you.

    I've toyed with that as a head canon myself... but instead of taxidermy, they'd collect the body, skin it, remove the muscle-- skeleton trophy.
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  34. SpreadEagleBeagle
    Posted
    I like the idea someone one this thread threw around earlier about Predators preforming taxidermy... That would make it really creepy indeed. They could make them (the taxidermic bodies) really lifelike... Now picture a scene with our human protagonist stuck in a misty trophy cabinet, stumbling into an area with with stuffed humans, some of them his/her comrades, and then the Predator(s) start using that voice mimicking technology to really screw around with you.
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  39. Ultramorph
    Posted
    Way too early, but the collected edition of Predator: Life and Death is already up for pre-order on Amazon, with a release date of October 25, 2016.
    http://www.amazon.com/Predator-Life-Death-Dan-Abnett/dp/1506700500/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&qid=1456166982&sr=8-7&keywords=predator+life+and+death

    I'm eager to see how much the universe gets expanded in Life and Death. Seegson is an interesting wrinkle. I'm really looking forward to seeing how it "intersects" with Fire and Stone. I wonder if
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    Tartarus is the third, as yet un-named, moon of Calpamos.
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  40. Perfect-Organism
    Posted
    Quote from: The Alien Predator on Feb 22, 2016, 02:05:20 PM
    Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Feb 22, 2016, 09:02:41 AM
    For me it's nice to see some more expansion in the universe. I hate when you get throwaway companies or individuals or races that are just never seen again. I'm very thankful to see the Seegson reappear and get some extra attention.

    I agree, so many throwaway aliens in the comics!

    I'm glad that even the
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    Arcturians are being brought back in this new EU (being mentioned in novels)
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    It's so good to see some actual expansion going on.

    Quote from: HuDaFuK on Feb 22, 2016, 09:04:13 AM
    I'm really holding out that we see more of the Colonial Marshals at some point.

    I'd love a prequel story about Waits fighting corruption in his early days with the bureau :)

    That'd be so good to see, Huda. It's always great when they add some new well established factions.

    I see the expansion of the universe as a good thing too.  It is something that can be derailed if done wrong but overall I'm cautiously optimistic about it.  The idea of a complete WY monopoly seems a bit absurd to me, so having Seegson makes sense.  It can easily take us into Star Trek territory, but even that, if done right could be good.  As long as the cynicism and bleakness of the Alien universe endures, it could be made to work..
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  41. The Alien Predator
    Posted
    Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Feb 22, 2016, 09:02:41 AM
    For me it's nice to see some more expansion in the universe. I hate when you get throwaway companies or individuals or races that are just never seen again. I'm very thankful to see the Seegson reappear and get some extra attention.

    I agree, so many throwaway aliens in the comics!

    I'm glad that even the
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    Arcturians are being brought back in this new EU (being mentioned in novels)
    [close]

    It's so good to see some actual expansion going on.

    Quote from: HuDaFuK on Feb 22, 2016, 09:04:13 AM
    I'm really holding out that we see more of the Colonial Marshals at some point.

    I'd love a prequel story about Waits fighting corruption in his early days with the bureau :)

    That'd be so good to see, Huda. It's always great when they add some new well established factions.
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  42. HuDaFuK
    Posted
    Maybe if the book hadn't started development until after the game came out, they might've used them. It's a shame because it would've been better for the story on every level.
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  45. Corporal Hicks
    Posted
    For me it's nice to see some more expansion in the universe. I hate when you get throwaway companies or individuals or races that are just never seen again. I'm very thankful to see the Seegson reappear and get some extra attention.
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  50. Ultramorph
    Posted
    It is cool to have Seegson in the mix.
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    The solicitation for issue #3 sort of makes it seem like they might be setting up more involvement for Seegson, at least as far as Life and Death goes. The whole "know more than they were letting on" about the Engineer ship thing.

    Maybe they'll show up in Defiance, too.
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