We have another Omnibus coming from Marvel next year collecting some Dark Horse Original comics! In August of 2021 we’ll be seeing ‘Predator: The Original Years Omnibus Vol. 1.’
The standard cover art by Iban Coello
Comic YouTube channel Near Mint Condition, the same channel that broke the news about Marvel’s first Aliens Omnibus collection due for release in April of next year, has come out with some information on the first Predator Omnibus release from Marvel.
The full collection line-up is as follows:
PREDATOR (1989) #1-4, PREDATOR 2 #1-2, PREDATOR: Big Game #1-4, PREDATOR: COLD WAR #1-4, PREDATOR: THE BLOODY SANDS OF TIME #1-2, PREDATOR: RACE WAR #1-4, PREDATOR: BAD BLOOD #1-4, PREDATOR: INVADERS FROM THE FOURTH DIMENSION, PREDATOR: DARK RIVER #1-4, PREDATOR: STRANGE ROUX, and PREDATOR: KINDRED #1-4 – Plus material from DARK HORSE PRESENTS (1986) #46, #67-69, and #119: DARK HORSE COMICS #1-2, #4-7, #10-14, #16-18 and #20-21; and A DECADE OF DARK HORSE #1
Just as with the upcoming Marvel Aliens Omnibus 1, there are a number of classics here as well as some rarities such as the comic adaptation of Predator 2!
The (hopefully scandal free!) standard edition cover features artwork by Marvel comic artist Iban Coello, and also just like the Aliens Omnibus release, there will be a direct market variant cover with artwork by original Predator comic artist Chris Warner.
Here’s the original video from Near Mint Condition:
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Amazon still says September 13th through. Maybe it will be available exclusively through your LCBS first.
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Hoping and Praying brother!!
I don't believe we've had the May solicitations come out yet, so might just be a retailer guestimate.
While only a rumor I heard he was protected by Joe Quesada. Unfortunately Land just got deadlines and so he was protected by the company (presumably). You can be easy to work with, meet deadlines, and provide good quality work. You can only have two and Land decided to skip quality for being a tracer of others work and porn. He's mocked for good reason.
Salavador Larroca is one of these as well who traced to meet deadlines.
Yeah, ok. That actually makes sense, I can get behind this. Its just going to sting a bit knowing that there might be a possibility of these stories no longer being touched upon in future stories.
Doing something like this is to get people aware of the character and with something as mainstream as Marvel, this will be a lot of people's introduction to the Predator. This also has the benefit of Marvel readers being a bit more willing to invest in the character long-term if they have a primer with the older stories to kind of know what to expect. So yeah it's another new trade but it's another new trade with a bunch of new eyes on it that otherwise either didn't know about Darkhorse or just wasn't willing to give the company a chance.
If it don't have the other volumes with these comics in, perhaps. But this to introduce Alien and Predator a whole new Marvel audience who might not have known about them on original release or the various re-releases.
They may share the same name, but there's A LOT more in this one.
Hell and Hot Water was actually fully released before DHP 124, but I assume the exclusion from this omni might be due to page constraints?
What is a genuinely disappointing exclusion is the Hunting the Heroes stories: Predator vs X/Motorhead/Ghost/Agents of Law. I know those characters are still owned by Dark Horse, but this is probably DH's only opportunity to create some (minor) reprint revenue off those short stories. I guess one side (or both) didn't want to do business on this one.
Also. You are right. That pic you posted is awesome.
I wonder if this is an indication that Iban may be our Predator penciler in Marvel's upcoming run.
DHP #46 is God's Truth
DHP #67-69 is issue 0 of Race War
DHP #119 is No Beast So Fierce
Dark Horse Comics #1-2 is Rite of Passage
Dark Horse Comics #10 - 14 is I think Pride at Nghasa and the Bad Blood prequel
Dark Horse Comics #16 - 18 is The Hunted City
Dark Horse Comics #20 - 21 is Blood on Two-Witch Mesa
A Decade of Dark Horse #1 is 1718
Doesn't look like there's any blow-away first time reprints this time around. But still a damn good collection, and another big one.
He did this cool piece recently -