AvP Three World War - New Series, 2009

[Corporal Hicks]

I gotta say right now, I envy you Alien fans, you guys are getting the better treats as of late.

...Predator fans are just getting screwed over.

Hardly. You got all the good novels. I like that varient. Very retro.

[Lobster]

Not entirely - they revisited Tirgu-Mires in Aliens: Wraith.

Oh, I had no idea that Wraith took place on the same planet. Still, I'd love to see Alecto Throop and her owl again.

[RakaiThwei]

Hardly. You got all the good novels. I like that varient. Very retro.

We got all the good novels?

Well, unless you're talking about Concrete Jungle, Cold War, Big Game, Turn About, South China Sea and to a lesser extent, Prey and Hunter's Planet... then yeah.

But I'm talking about the newer comic... and... well, I'm just gonna stop here.

But you Alien fans have some good novels too, from the ones I've read anyway, like Genocide, Earth War, Nightmare Asylum, Berserker..

-Rakai'Thwei

[Mr. Domino]

Overall, the Predator novels have been better over the years, but they've far from gotten all the good ones. I quite liked a decent chunk of the Aliens ones.

[Corporal Hicks]

My mistake. All the good recent novels. Aside from Forever Midnight. The Alien novels haven't been to the same standard.

[Spaghetti]

As far as the new novels go, predator has by far gotten the better treatment.

South China Sea and Turnabout are better than all the new Aliens novels IMO. After reading SCS and some of his other stuff, I wish DH would just let Jeff VanderMeer do whatever he wants with any future predator novels and maybe some alien too.

[Yautja117]

Vandermeer is really great. I'd love to see what else he'd bring to the table. His Halo short "The Mona Lisa" is amazing. Hopefully he'll write more novels.

[Spaghetti]

Hell yes, just recently read Evolutions and 'The Mona Lisa' is definitely one of the most entertaining and original of the bunch.

[Yautja117]

It'd be cool if Vandermeer wrote a Predator comic series, prehaps a follow up to AVP: 3WW. I'd like to see how he'd work in the medium.

[vikingspawn]

New interview with Randy Stradley up at IGN:

"Aliens and Predators Return to War"

http://comics.ign.com/articles/105/1058673p1.html

[Corporal Hicks]

One of the points stressed in the story is that it's a mistake to project human emotions or sensibilities on the Predators. They're not "noble savages." Their sense of honor and obligation is very different than ours.

I like!

[vikingspawn]

ALIENS VS. PREDATOR: THREE WORLD WAR #3 (of 6)



ALIENS VS. PREDATOR: THREE WORLD WAR #3 (of 6)
Randy Stradley (W), Rick Leonardi (P), Mark Pennington (I), Wes Dzioba (C), and Raymond Swanland (Cover)
On sale Apr 7
FC, 40 pages, $3.50
Miniseries

Against her better judgment, Machiko Noguchi is back with the Predators, trying to forge a coalition between the clan that once accepted her and a strike force of Colonial Marines. But it's an uneasy alliance at best as neither side understands the motives or mores of the other. Every gesture is a challenge, every altercation an invitation to battle. But the real battle is yet to come — against a rogue clan of warlike Predators with an army of Aliens under their control. It is said that no plan survives contact with the enemy, but Machiko's plan can barely stand up to her allies!

- Featuring the creative dream team of original AVP writer Randy Stradley, Rick Leonardi, Mark Pennington, Wes Dzioba, and Raymond Swanland, Aliens vs. Predator: Three World War ties together story threads introduced in the 1989 AvP series and new Aliens and Predator storylines, setting the stage for the most epic AvP brawl ever imagined.

[Mr. Domino]

Now that - is an epic cover. I've been waiting to see a Swanland queen for months now. Badass.

[XenoVC]

setting the stage for the most epic AvP brawl ever imagined.

I just hope the most epic AvP brawl ever imagined isn't a fight between red crab Aliens and Predators.

[Mr. Domino]

I just hope the fact that they're calling it a brawl doesn't mean that Mario and Samus will be showing up