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Posted by VeteranSergeant
 - Dec 16, 2022, 12:24:07 AM
Quote from: 426Buddy on Mar 27, 2022, 01:28:34 PMI thought HP was truly dire myself.

Everything with Machiko after AvP War #0 has been less than good.
I really couldn't take any of the AvP novels seriously. I kinda blame the Perrys for how awful modern Predator lore is, fashioning this incomprehensibly dumb concept for an alien species that has mastered tremendous technological feats while having a society structured around might makes right.   Like, who makes and maintains all the technology? You can follow an instruction manual to assemble a car from a pile of parts. You wouldn't be able to fabricate a Ferrari from scratch without significant knowledge of everything from metallurgy to aerodynamics, and to have somehow gained that knowledge despite living in a society with all the sophistication of spending every day locked in an MMA gym.

These dudes have FTL, energy projection weapons, small portable high capacity batteries, optical camouflage, and arm-mounted miniaturized fuel air explosives. The idea that they would focus their entire civilization around sport hunting sentient and near-sentient creatures and still have achieved technological heights is... incredibly stupid. Like "Maybe if I was a below-average 13 year old this would make sense" level of stupid. A more likely scenario is that the Predator from the original film is his species' equivalent of that dentist who killed Cecil the Lion.

The Predator story I'm interested in reading now is about the Predanerds that spend all their lives getting beaten up by bullies who force them to "do science."  :laugh:
Posted by BlazinBlueReview
 - Dec 08, 2022, 12:36:02 AM
Started reading Alien Covenant Origins. So far, so good.
Posted by Saith
 - Oct 08, 2022, 11:52:05 PM
Haven't really been a big fan of the Titan Releases over the past decade or so, having been a reader since the Dark Horse days...

That said, I recently picked up a copy of Alien : Into Charydbis.

Felt like a slow burn at first, yet I'm 170 pages in so far and absolutely f**king hooked! I sure hope the book holds up this level of quality throughout (or indeed succeeds it).

Overall, it's easy to get into and follow without any prior knowledge of the authors previous endeavour The Cold Forge.
Although I understand that both TCF and Alien: Phalanx are also highly regarded, so perhaps next then.

The last Alien story I enjoyed this much was Stephanie Perry's 'criminal enterprise'.

Posted by Kimarhi
 - Mar 28, 2022, 10:27:25 PM
Quote from: Gentleman Death on Mar 27, 2022, 12:01:50 AM
Quote from: Kimarhi on Mar 26, 2022, 11:12:54 PM
HP and War are like 1a  or 1b novels.  Of the old Bantam novels, HP was the only one that was original and not based on a DH comic.  I also think it was the worst.

Does War explain Machikos "betrayal" of the predators and why she no longer was with them? Because in HP it was mentioned a few times but never explained...

They don't like her, in the comics only Broken Tusk respected her.


But she also found out they sanctioned a hunt against humans.
Posted by 426Buddy
 - Mar 27, 2022, 01:28:34 PM
I thought HP was truly dire myself.

Everything with Machiko after AvP War #0 has been less than good.

Posted by BlueMarsalis79
 - Mar 27, 2022, 09:10:16 AM
I honestly think everything with Machiko actively involved with them was always a mistake and ultimately sullied people's idea of her actual characterisation somewhat. And replaced it with a teenage boy's fantasy both visually and conceptually.
Posted by HuDaFuK
 - Mar 27, 2022, 08:51:30 AM
Quote from: Kimarhi on Mar 26, 2022, 11:12:54 PMHP and War are like 1a  or 1b novels.  Of the old Bantam novels, HP was the only one that was original and not based on a DH comic.

It wasn't based on a comic, but the short comic Aliens vs. Predator 2 (later collected as War #0) is adapted as a chapter in both the Hunter's Planet and War novels.

I went into Hunter's Planet only knowing it through Hicks' (very) negative (old) review, and as such I was honestly quite pleasantly surprised. It's not great, but I didn't think it was anything like awful either. I think I ended up enjoying it about as much as War, if only because the latter was so disappointing after Prey and especially the absolutely excellent Berserker.
Posted by SiL
 - Mar 27, 2022, 01:01:25 AM
She realises she'll only be tolerated, never accepted.
Posted by Kradan
 - Mar 27, 2022, 12:25:46 AM
I didn't read the novelisation but IIRC in War comic Machicko just got tired of constantly dealing with Predators' bullshit
Posted by Gentleman Death
 - Mar 27, 2022, 12:01:50 AM
Quote from: Kimarhi on Mar 26, 2022, 11:12:54 PM
HP and War are like 1a  or 1b novels.  Of the old Bantam novels, HP was the only one that was original and not based on a DH comic.  I also think it was the worst.

Does War explain Machikos "betrayal" of the predators and why she no longer was with them? Because in HP it was mentioned a few times but never explained...
Posted by Kimarhi
 - Mar 26, 2022, 11:12:54 PM
HP and War are like 1a  or 1b novels.  Of the old Bantam novels, HP was the only one that was original and not based on a DH comic.  I also think it was the worst. 
Posted by Gentleman Death
 - Mar 26, 2022, 09:56:29 PM
AvP Hunters World (2.5/5)

This started off pretty decent but by the end, I was rolling my eyes with dialogue and overall direction this book went.

I like the concept of the Hunters World and even had a Jurassic park type of feel to it for me. But once the book introduced aliens modified by cyborg type genetics, who can shoot guns occasionally....kinda started losing me there.

I wasn't really feeling Machikos character mid point through this novel as well. She started saying things like "old chum" and was acting nothing like her character from the first novel.

This book just wasn't doing much for me unfortunately.
Posted by Gentleman Death
 - Feb 23, 2022, 11:56:57 PM
Finished AvP: Prey and I enjoyed it. I've never read any of the predator comics and was always hesitant to get into the novels themselves but I'd say it was a fun read.

I can see how people like Machiko as she's a pretty solid character. I wasn't sure how I'd like the Predator "view" but found I didn't hate it.

I'm looking forward to seeing how it all plays out wiith the next two.
Posted by HuDaFuK
 - Feb 16, 2022, 08:03:58 AM
The only Batam Aliens novel I remember actively disliking was Alien Harvest. Just couldn't get on with that one at all. Hated the characters, found the story incredibly boring and disliked the prose. Otherwise they were at least entertaining.

The Predator novels from them I really never got into though. I didn't enjoy Nathan Archer's writing at all.
Posted by SiL
 - Feb 16, 2022, 04:59:10 AM
Yeah, and I'm definitely talking the novel - the comic was pretty disappointing by comparison. Not bad, but the novel breathed new life into it
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