We've already noted the continuity issues with the films, we have also noted the continuity issues with the expanded universe. However we also have to keep in mind on where certain films like PREDATORS and Prometheus stand. We know that Robert didn't want his film to do anything with Predator 2, AvP and Alien. We also know that Ridley Scott has also said that he didn't want his film to do with Predator or AvP. And we have also noted that Twentieth Century Fox hasn't really addressed what is canon and what isn't, and so far they haven't gone out of their way to declare that.
My main issue with the upcoming comics is their standing in continuity or even canon. Considering that they are ignoring the AvP films, as well as the previous older publications but they are not rendering them moot however they are not going out of their way to connect them with the previous stories. Some elements might be incorporated, but if that happens it's coincidental as mentioned by Sebela. The thing is this with these new stories, PREDATORS and Prometheus weren't supposed to go together. Rodriguez and Scott said something along those lines, and they weren't supposed to be merged into AvP either.
However I do understand and acknowledge PredXeno and Xenomrph's arguments and they have made some supporting points but SM and I have countered with points addressing the continuity issue and Fox's lack of active continuity preservation despite canon bibles being handed out to licensees and the fact that Fox lets them get away with things, somethings perhaps even coming from fanfiction (i.e. Yautja Prime, Xenomorph Prime). Some arguments they have presented I find really hard to buy (Xenomrph's argument concerning Big Red).
The thing is, with PREDATORS and Prometheus supposed to neither having anything to do with each other and certain films in the respective entries.. These new comics, should they even really be counted as canon despite what Ridley Scott and Rodriguez say? From what Xenomrph and PredXeno say, as long as one works to tie in the continuity issues and re-work them, then yes. But the issue I have with that is that the fan theories tying in Weyland Industries and Weyland Corp are just that, fan theories and in no way official. Also, considering that Dark Horse, or rather specifically the writers are third party is a bit new to me. I mean EU material is just that, secondary tier material that cannot override the primary tier material. And the writers happen to be third party sources, who state that in their opinion, Prometheus and PREDATORS are canon with each other. Which brings me back to Robert and Ridley, two people who worked on the primary sources and are primary contributors, who happen to say otherwise.
Fox hasn't said any word, and likely won't.
We know that these new comics are a new and perhaps separate continuity based on what they have mentioned in the article, and from what Sebela has said on his Tumblr, but they are also not jettisoning the AvP movies or even the old comics from canon however they are not going to reference them or connect them either.
To me this sounds like a whole new and separate continuity, and based from what was gathered it suggests that. Another spin-off or side story of the sort.. Kind of like the Hish mythos or something. I'm still trying to make sense of this..
My head hurts thinking about this.
-Rakai'Thwei