QuoteBut some stories just do not go together and some of them don't even go with the films. The Hish mythos for example, and Destroying Angels.
Destroying Angels is fine if you assume that the Engineers and the Space Jockeys are
not the same thing. The Hish thing is also pretty bizarre, but easy enough to write off as "not the same Predators seen in the movies". I've even seen the fan-theory tossed around that the Hish are the Super-Predators.
QuoteThe Weyland-Yutani archive articles in the Blu-Ray for AvP-R were meant to be written in-universe as if actually by Weyland-Yutani staff, where as PREDATORS just used it for a title for a bonus segment and nothing more.
So? They still used the word, I'd say that gives it a good deal of legitimacy.
QuoteThat's... What?
I don't understand, what's the problem?
QuoteAs for this AvP Canon Bible which Dark Horse has... Is there an actual quote on that?
Here's some relevant quotes:
"Yeah, Fox tries to make sure all of the comics and novels (and upcoming video games) fit into an approved cannon and timeline. They don't provide that timeline or restriction guide up front -- we usually have to do our own research based on pre-existing info available on the web and elsewhere -- but they do review and approve all proposals internally. If something in the proposal doesn't fit the cannon, or is based on some innacurate fan-fiction claiming to be official, then they'll flag it as something that needs fixing. They're not as strict as, say, Lucasfilm is with Star Wars, but then again they don't have as many bizarre, contradictory historical threads going on at once." -- Mike Kennedy, Dark Horse Comics
"The synopsis goes to Fox to make sure everything is copasetic with the rules of the licensed universe, and then, if it's approved, it goes back to the writer. Contract signed, book written, book delivered [...] Those are the kinds of things we look out for, and that Fox looks out for—the rules of the universe, but also the implications of the writing." -- from an interview with Dark Horse Press editors Rob Simpson and Victoria Blake
"We don't keep a continuity book or "bible" for those properties as we do not own them. When we have an idea for those properties, we pitch the ideas to FOX and they decide whether we can write those stories and whether they fit into the "timeline" of their properties. We have no say in those matters." - from Spencer at Dark Horse (dhcomics@darkhorse.com)
QuoteThere's never been any attempt though to create one singular continuity.
Well except for those times where they attempted to create one singular continuity, as referenced in a quote from FOX in
this very thread.