Dark Horse have posted the preview for the upcoming Predator: Life and Death #2 online! Following on the first issue released in March, the second issue of Predator: Life and Death sees the marines of Hasdrubal come into direct conflict with the Predators:
“Colonial Marines hunt the Predators, and the Predators lead the marines into an ambush! But on the jungle world of Tartarus, everyone has their eyes on the ultimate prize: an otherworldly spacecraft ripe for the taking!”
The Predator: Life and Death #2 preview is now available!
Predator: Life and Death #2 is due for release on the 6th of April 2016. Thanks Ultramorph for the news.
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All Comic also has a preview of Predator #3:
http://all-comic.com/2016/preview-predator-life-death-3/
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There's just something about seeing a Predator hanging off some Engineer architecture that makes me happy.
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From Brian's Facebook. https://www.facebook.com/BrianThiesArt/
It's already released a couple of issues.
Has series started hitting shelves yet? Maybe there's still time for me to tweet/email the artist and say "hey, you might want to fix this..."
Because the Conestoga-class (i.e. the Sulaco) had an expiration date established in the USCM Tech Manual. AvP2010 was one of the few sources to actually take that into account, which was refreshing.
Not new, but we now know that this Predator is called 'Longface'.
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A Pred with some nice alien architecture.
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An unused mask design.
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#3 better deliver the goods
It has been a slow burn so far, though. Any guesses about what will happen when it interests with Fire and Stone? I'm hoping Abnett does something cool with the mountain.
I'll be looking forward to where the story for this series goes after Predator L&D, two issues in and it feels like nothing has been revealed yet.
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I really do enjoy the Life and Death artwork.
Some intelligent, well thought out action is all I'm hoping for - I am not expecting Abnett to be doing anything non-derivative with Predator L&D. Looks like he's sticking with a very tried and true sort of execution
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I was excited to see the five other Predators that show up. Hopefully we start to get some characterization on them.
Also, it should be cool to see how much Seegson knows about the Engineers. Hopefully that story angle doesn't get lost as this event unfolds.
The action should've started in earnest by #2
There's really no point to dragging out the scenario with Marine banter and uninteresting set up...
Expected a lot more from Abnett
Four 4-issue series and a one-shot finale, like Fire and Stone.
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I much preferred the art of Predator F&S and Civilised Beasts
That I can agree with I just couldn't formulate the right words to sound smarter about it haha I'm certainly in no way NOT going to get the rest of the issues as they come out so I do hope it does go somewhere interesting. I didn't mind Fire & Stone though it got pretty damn messy near the end & I didn't care for the ending at all but I still keep going. I recently finished reading the 6 issues of Aliens/Vampirella. It was pretty bad & pretty much went nowhere by the time it was done but whatever, I still read for just in case it turns good. But yes I do agree, tone down the fan service a bit more & just do the story. I normally wait until entire runs are complete before reading because I hate waiting for the next issue but I wanted to be up to speed on this one.
No, I think you're spot on. The author made some minor tweaks to the one-liners, but you can clearly tell what he's getting at, and then he sprinkled them like pepper all over the comic. I'm all fan-serviced out at the moment. It's too much. It's like the author is telling me, "hey, I know that you know", but now we're saying, "I know that you know, that I know" and it becomes pandering.
Now mind you, just about every single line in Aliens is classic, with one-liner potential, and is thoroughly quotable. The issue is not in whether to use those those quotes or not, but rather it is in execution. So far it feels to me like a cheap ploy to make the book feel like the movie. Instead, such Aliens "one-liners should match the story and be added appropriately for dramatic effect, where really make sense and are necessary. Otherwise, they fall flat.
Anyway, 15 issues to go, so I will give this a chance of course. But I think we need to ramp up the art and tone down the fromage factor a bit..
You could be right & it might not have been as much as I'm making it out to be. I think I'm just being a bitter ass about some of the attitudes being similar & me thinking they're just rehashing things. My defenses are up pretty high lately after Force Awakens came out. I was never so excited to see a movie I didn't end up liking much at all so my guard is up a little more these days especially when it comes to my beloved Aliens & Pred. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't super weary about Alien:Covenant & The Predator.
This isn't Hive Wars Predator. This is a new Predator whom the artist based the design around the figure. Nothing more.
I'm going to have to have a re-read because I don't recall it being obtrusive or overly done. I definitely recognized some of the same confidence and attitude but it wasn't reusing dialogue from the films.
We need to remember we're only 2 parts into a 17 part story here and we've got lots of setup to get out of the way.
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I was really hoping for good, solid action in #2. Pretty much all of the action is in the preview, nothing new. Disappointing
HAHA! Nice one, though the sad reality of that is that I can see that being said in an upcoming issue. I'm just waiting for the Commander chick to do a "Look into my eye" before that happens
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Imagine...
"What's the matter? Weyland-Yutani got you pushin' too many pencils?"
Oh ok that's cool then I was wondering about that. Don't know too much about Defiance yet so I wasn't sure if it was a stand alone or part of this multi-crossover like Fire & Stone. But yea I do agree is fan service overkill at this point. Certain dialogue moments didn't even make much sense for as to why the line was said beyond just being a fan service moment. I could see the smartgunner role being reversed like you said haha Now all it's missing is a someone saying the "you're one ugly.." & have the Predator finish the line off like in P2 or even have a Predator say "Want some candy?" I think I would be done with the story if it goes that route haha
Aliens Defiance apparently is not intended to cross over into Predator territory. But I agree with all of the above. Its fan over-service now. Stop already. I bet you now the roles will be reversed and the female smartgunner will play the Hudson role.
The color palette in these books is completely unhinged. I mean the colors are everywhere all over the map. You may have these earth-tones blending into baby blue, and then a panel done in one big red color fill. There is no cohesion. That makes it a chore to look at the panels.
The drawn art is ok. No more no less.
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