Marvel's Predator (Volume 1) - Predator: Day of the Hunter

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Xiggz456

Final issue was pretty solid. The art is so dynamic with each panel showing so much movement. I'd say that the art elevated an otherwise okay story arc with this one.

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The final battle was fun enough but ultimately I was never worried about Theta because of how easily she's dispatched dozens of Predators already. And that's probably my main issue with the series is just how powerful she is. Sure she has their gear and weaponry but I think the story could've benefited from flashbacks showing how she attained said gear as well as how she learned to fight so well. It all just stretched my suspension of disbelief a bit too far.
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Overall I think I'd rate the whole arc 6.5/10 as it was a fun yet over-the-top Predator story.

Nelostic

Yes it was cool but i think will be better if / when they will make
More powerful predators!
In next comix!

Chieftain Suom

With the exception of Aliens: Aftermath, which I hope Marvel expands upon, I am not super into in Marvel's Alien story arcs, but I absolutely loved reading Predator: Day of the Hunter. What did everyone else think of it?

(Bad Blood)

(Bad Blood)

#288
This series needs to slow down on the Predators getting killed. It's getting ridiculous and completely unrealistic to the franchise. The Predators get killed so easily in this series a newly enlisted soldier could kill them, a private would have his first Predator kill in his first 6 months after enlisting in this stories universe, 23 in a decade. The Predators aren't actually Predators at all, just people wearing costumes and role playing, Theta just didn't realize it this whole time but she had stumbled into space comic con, that's why her kill count is so outlandishly high.

Nelostic

I hope it Was Young Blood!

Nelostic

I think Teta will be fight
And after it in team with Woman Predator!

Corporal Hicks


Mr.Turok

Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Feb 14, 2023, 09:20:20 PMPodcast review is now up :) https://www.avpgalaxy.net/2023/02/14/terrorized-by-nightmares-of-me-reviewing-predator-day-of-the-hunter-avp-galaxy-podcast-160/

Great listen! Kinder to the run then I ever can be, because the development of the story arch is so glossed over and rushed that it distracted me from appreciating the concept of a witness/survivor of a Predator hunt who seeks revenge for what they done to them.

My greatest blight with this series is how it actively lessens the threat of the Predator's presence in its own domain and hugely glosses over Theta's believability in character. Theta killed over +20 Predators, since how long? Since she was a kid? Are Predators that easy for a child to kill now when it took Naru, Dutch, Harrigan, and ect through hell and back for them to kill one Predator? The fact that it had to take Theta to get drunk in order for the Predator to have the advantage in the fight, not the other way around is what blows my mind. They actively made Predators look like an easy thing to kill.   

Where did she get the training? Where did she learn to use a ship? How did she know where to look? Was there anyone else involved to help her along the way? They wanted to make her like a Dutch 2025/Machiko but without showing the process and earning her stripes for it. Seeing Dutch's story in PHG, you can see how hunting Predators even with the backing of OWLF is not easy and always involve loosing people, even up to the point where it almost got him killed. 

And her personality is also just....not really anything for me to attach too. She is angry and wants revenge, but take that away and compare her to other characters in the series, there isn't much going on after this. Dutch actively hunts Predators not only due to what he has been through but fears for the human race as a whole, seeing that being viewed and hunted like animals is a whole lot worse then being conquered. We are a toy, a play thing to a far superior race that can end us all if they really had enough of us. Machiko felt apart from humanity, almost like a depressed unsociable slightly self hatred kind of sense that she wants to be with people but just can't get over that inhibiting part of her. A cold corporatist she was but was able to change thanks to Hiroki and be a better person that risked her life to save a colony. There wasn't enough depth to Theta as I hoped for, it really was just a one dimensional form she had and nothing else to show for.

I have to give the story a 4/10, it's just that there was so much to explore but instead all rushed and condensed to meet a deadline rather then some effort of making a really enjoyable story.

Engineer

Quote from: Mr.Turok on Feb 17, 2023, 12:37:03 AM
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Feb 14, 2023, 09:20:20 PMPodcast review is now up :) https://www.avpgalaxy.net/2023/02/14/terrorized-by-nightmares-of-me-reviewing-predator-day-of-the-hunter-avp-galaxy-podcast-160/

Great listen! Kinder to the run then I ever can be, because the development of the story arch is so glossed over and rushed that it distracted me from appreciating the concept of a witness/survivor of a Predator hunt who seeks revenge for what they done to them.

My greatest blight with this series is how it actively lessens the threat of the Predator's presence in its own domain and hugely glosses over Theta's believability in character. Theta killed over +20 Predators, since how long? Since she was a kid? Are Predators that easy for a child to kill now when it took Naru, Dutch, Harrigan, and ect through hell and back for them to kill one Predator? The fact that it had to take Theta to get drunk in order for the Predator to have the advantage in the fight, not the other way around is what blows my mind. They actively made Predators look like an easy thing to kill.   

Where did she get the training? Where did she learn to use a ship? How did she know where to look? Was there anyone else involved to help her along the way? They wanted to make her like a Dutch 2025/Machiko but without showing the process and earning her stripes for it. Seeing Dutch's story in PHG, you can see how hunting Predators even with the backing of OWLF is not easy and always involve loosing people, even up to the point where it almost got him killed. 

And her personality is also just....not really anything for me to attach too. She is angry and wants revenge, but take that away and compare her to other characters in the series, there isn't much going on after this. Dutch actively hunts Predators not only due to what he has been through but fears for the human race as a whole, seeing that being viewed and hunted like animals is a whole lot worse then being conquered. We are a toy, a play thing to a far superior race that can end us all if they really had enough of us. Machiko felt apart from humanity, almost like a depressed unsociable slightly self hatred kind of sense that she wants to be with people but just can't get over that inhibiting part of her. A cold corporatist she was but was able to change thanks to Hiroki and be a better person that risked her life to save a colony. There wasn't enough depth to Theta as I hoped for, it really was just a one dimensional form she had and nothing else to show for.

I have to give the story a 4/10, it's just that there was so much to explore but instead all rushed and condensed to meet a deadline rather then some effort of making a really enjoyable story.

You're kinder than me... I would have ranked this one at more like a 2 out of 10. On par with xenogenesis. Only reason I give it a 2 is because the artwork was impressive occasionally, but otherwise average artwork over all.

Wweyland

Quote from: (Bad Blood) on Feb 06, 2023, 10:18:48 AMThis series needs to slow down on the Predators getting killed. It's getting ridiculous and completely unrealistic to the franchise. The Predators get killed so easily in this series a newly enlisted soldier could kill them, a private would have his first Predator kill in his first 6 months after enlisting in this stories universe, 23 in a decade. The Predators aren't actually Predators at all, just people wearing costumes and role playing, Theta just didn't realize it this whole time but she had stumbled into space comic con, that's why her kill count is so outlandishly high.
Maybe it's all a Predator killing sim.

(Bad Blood)

Quote from: Wweyland on Feb 17, 2023, 11:29:32 PM
Quote from: (Bad Blood) on Feb 06, 2023, 10:18:48 AMThis series needs to slow down on the Predators getting killed. It's getting ridiculous and completely unrealistic to the franchise. The Predators get killed so easily in this series a newly enlisted soldier could kill them, a private would have his first Predator kill in his first 6 months after enlisting in this stories universe, 23 in a decade. The Predators aren't actually Predators at all, just people wearing costumes and role playing, Theta just didn't realize it this whole time but she had stumbled into space comic con, that's why her kill count is so outlandishly high.
Maybe it's all a Predator killing sim.
LOL it absolutely must be.

Wweyland

I think even the games let you kill about 3 Predators per campaign.
Not sure about AvP Jaguar and AvP: Extinction, but that last one is basically a war with nobody specifically killing dozens of Preds.

Mr.Turok

Quote from: Wweyland on Feb 18, 2023, 11:25:39 PMI think even the games let you kill about 3 Predators per campaign.
At least they were or on par of being boss battles, as facing a Predator should always feel like. The comic just made them like jobbers.

Nostromo Janitor

Nostromo Janitor

#298
Look forward to listening to the podcast, they're always great. The comic in the other hand is pathetic, just horrible and I am furious at the thought that this terrible writer has been hired for another story. Predators have been reduced to cannon fodder and the entire concept is BS.

Why can't we have stories like Predator: Concrete Jungle for PS2 and Xbox where a Predator is the main star? Not making some random character look good instead of the MAIN reason we are reading which are PREDATORS.

GreybackElder

Great podcast gentlemen! I appreciate the overview of Marvel's take on the predator. One thing that really bugs me is expanded universe material "nerfing" the predator. Truth be told I didn't even love the moment in Predators when Nolan's killed "two, maybe three of them." So hearing about someone who has KILLED 26 predators(WTF) takes away from the formidableness that the predator is known for. Sure, predators aren't unstoppable and can be killed but they should at least pose a threat. Tim Lebbon was able to fix this in the rage war series; unless there is some serious course correction I'm going to pass on this one. Also, can we please get some upgraded tech from the predators please? Give me something I haven't seen before.

 Lastly, it's good to have Xenomorphine back! I feel like it's been too long.

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