With Dark Horse’s Life and Death crossover event scheduled for completion with Prometheus: Life and Death – One Shot on Alien Day, it had looked like we wouldn’t be seeing any new Predator comics. Fear not though!
2017 marks the 30th anniversary of Predator’s release and to celebrate Dark Horse has announced (via Comic Book Resources) a brand new comic series to go alongside their re-issue of the original three Schaefer Predator comics.
“The primary setting in Predator: Hunters is an isolated, privately owned archipelago in the South Pacific populated by the descendants of an eccentric 19th-century merchant and his employees,” Warner said. “Into this tropical paradise comes a purported oceanographic expedition that is, in truth, a cover for a much more lethal mission. But the remote islands hold their own secrets.”

Doug Wheatley’s cover art for Predator: Hunters #1.
Predator: Hunters will be written by Dark Horse veteran Chris Warner with artwork by Francisco Ruiz Velasco (who has also worked on an Aliens and Predator comic in the past). Not only are old hands returning to create the series, Predator: Hunters will feature the return of past characters:
“We’ll see the return of several characters who survived their encounters with Predators from Dark Horse series of the past,” says Warner, “specifically Enoch Nakai, the Navajo soldier from “Big Game,” and Mandy Graves, the lone survivor of a black-ops team who tracked and fought a Predator in the New Jersey Pine Barrens in “Bad Blood.”
If you head on over to Comic Book Resources you can check out the full announcement and get a look at some interior artwork from the upcoming Predator: Hunters ashcan story. Predator: Hunters #1 is slated for release in May 2017. Thanks to Ultramorph for the news.
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My thoughts on the series.
https://www.darkhorse.com/Books/30-558/Predator-Hunters-TPB
Sorry if this is a bit more than you are asking.
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Preview for issue 5 is up. Beware spoilers.
I was under the impression that those
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Preview for issue 4 is up. Looking forward to this.
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That makes me wonder, perhaps there's an untouched hidden plateau filled with dinosaurs and cave people in the Predator canon as well.
http://www.darkhorse.com/Comics/3001-536/Predator-Hunters-3-Francisco-Ruiz-Velasco-Variant-Cover#prettyPhoto
I agree with this so damn much. Since everything after Genocide stayed away from messing with the movies, this method wouldn't run into the problems of the first couple Aliens comics, where they just changed the names of characters who were just straight-up Ripley and co.
You really wouldn't even need to go that far, there's nothing in the old comics that really contradicts anything.
Then you have a launchpad for sequels to all those old stories that can incorporate elements from the newer films.
Predator comics from the early to mid 90s were pretty much all hyper-violent.
Big Game was really good though. It totally captured the Predator's ruthlessness IMO...great action.
Bad Blood is connected to hunters but its also a pretty great predator series. Its wacky, hyper violent, and really really bloody.
And I loved Big Game. Wasn't sold on Nemesis. Maybe if they'd not included Mycroft Holmes and Lestrade in it, but they did.
I really dig the detailed artwork.
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Poor Mandy Graves, the way the Predator crushed her hand looks like it really f**king hurt... I remember reading Bad Blood but it was so long ago that I remember very little of it. I should give it a re-read someday.
Also i love Doug Wheatleys cover art, i cant say that enough.
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They like #2.
The funny thing is if Nemesis is now "canon" again, then Mycroft Holmes (and by association, his more famous brother) exist in the Predator universe again.
It was Nemesis. She's Captain Soames' granddaughter.
Oh, I will. But I'd prefer to read stuff that is canon in the eyes of Fox or whoever first. Won't stop me from enjoying out of canon stuff.
Sooooo, what are the nods back to the older stuff? Lol
Has it ever been stated what's in and out of Predator canon?