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!
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.
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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Hive Wars dies then...?
http://www.darkhorse.com/Comics/Previews/29-807?page=0
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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
Have you had it yet?
I'm sure they will. The ending was a nice ramping up towards more action.
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.
Cool! Can't wait to see what you think.
I love those hoverbikes in this! With those twin mounted smartguns. So badass!
I picked up the digital version today, because of course I can't wait for the mail.
I love the water colour quality...very beautiful
Thought it wanted to be here too. Just about to read it.
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.
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From the interview. Is this the cover art for #4 do we think?
I'll be buying a digital copy...really anticipating this.
Looking forward to your review
I usually wait for running comic series to finish so I can read them all at once. Predator: Life and Death is one of the few exceptions I'm taking.
Vampirella and Archie!
We assume. All we know for sure is there will be four series and one of them will be Predator and one of them will be Prometheus. So yeah, it seems highly probable the others will be Aliens and AVP.
Isn't L&D going to be Aliens, Predator, AvP and Prometheus?
It's the perfect time, 420!
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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That would be such a creepy scene. I love it
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.
Yeah...it's called effective world building
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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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..
I agree, so many throwaway aliens in the comics!
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It's so good to see some actual expansion going on.
That'd be so good to see, Huda. It's always great when they add some new well established factions.
Yes! I thought they'd have been perfect for River of Pain instead of the Colonial Marines.
I'd love a prequel story about Waits fighting corruption in his early days with the bureau
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My god...I had no idea. Thank you for pointing that out
*Working Joe approaches cloaked Predator*
"Why don't you ask me about hunting safety protocols?"
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Maybe they'll show up in Defiance, too.