New 4 issue Predator series by Brisson has officially bee solicited for 2/21/24 release date. Based on the final page of The Preserve #5, the series is set to be titled The Thrill of the Hunt.
#1: THE HUNT CONTINUES! For years, Theta has hunted and killed Predators in her search for the one that killed her parents. Now she's on a mission to free the human captives from the Predators' game preserve. But when a Super Predator is on the loose, even a seasoned hunter like Theta can become prey...
Ed Brisson returns, joined by superstar artist Francesco Manna in an epic new arc that will leave you on the edge of your seat!.
It's great, Marvel has been making us happy lately! :)
Oh neat they included the Predator hounds from Predators, pulling from other lore of the movies.
Predator vs Wolverine sequel spin offs Team X vs Aliens, Weapon X vs Red Aliens, Deathlok vs Aliens, Cable vs Mala'kaks,
There's a volume 2？
I'm glad they're including Super Predators this time on the game preserve. Hopefully it'll be an original design and not another reuse of Mr. Black, Tracker, or Falconer.
Quote from: happypred on Nov 20, 2023, 10:41:12 PMThere's a volume 2？
The Preserve.
Quote from: RidgeTop on Nov 20, 2023, 11:01:38 PMI'm glad they're including Super Predators this time on the game preserve. Hopefully it'll be an original design and not another reuse of Mr. Black, Tracker, or Falconer.
My f**king eye is twitching over the use of the name Super Predators. But I do agree. I hope they continue to use new designs. I really don't want to see any of Predators' Predators reused at all.
Is there a link to the news source?
Wonder if this super Predator means just different Tribe like in Predators just with awkward naming, or actual upgraded or heavy Armed Predator like in The Predator. I mean it would have sense that Predators sent some heavy hitter after Theta, when she caused them so much troubles.
Quote from: XENOMORPHOSIS on Nov 21, 2023, 05:36:31 PMIs there a link to the news source?
No proper announcement. Was just in the solicitations for the month.
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/marvel-comics-full-solicits-solicitations-for-february-2024/
In a previous comic they also featured the Predator dogs shown in The Predator 2018, even though there's devised opinions about the later Predator movies but it's cool they get some acknowledgement and that the expanded universe pulls from the lore and even a good amount of the time improves the concept.
It would help explain why are regular Predators doing the kidnapping canned hunts like the Super Predators did in 2010. It would be a shame if they muddied the waters of both types doing the same thing and not having their own unique identity in practicing the Hunt. For at this point, might as well make the SP obsolete, as a bigger and badder Predator just sounds corny at this point if they aren't the criminal poachers/cheaters of the hunter society.
Nice! Still no news on the original Predator script comics adaptation please?
Story direction seems good, but the name irks me, as we already had AvP: Thrill Of The Hunt
@Ahsoka wasn't that disconnected shelved a little after the Disney buy out of 20th century fox and the transfer of Alien/Predator comic book licence from Darkhorse comics to Marvel, shame that to waste time on money on something fans would be curious to catch out as a what if a visualisation of the initial Hunter/Predator treatment.
Correction on the title: It's Predator: The Last Hunt
https://www.marvel.com/articles/comics/predator-series-ed-brisson-francesco-manna
Quote"I'm incredibly excited to be continuing my work on PREDATOR," Brisson said. "This is a book I love dearly. I'm proud of the work we've done in the past two volumes and think readers will be excited to see where we're headed in this third volume. The stakes are higher than they've ever been."
"Theta has been carrying a lot of guilt over the events of the last arc and has made it her mission to find the Predator Stasis Farms and free the hundreds (thousands?) of prisoners being held for the Predators's hunting pleasure—at the same time, her 20 plus years of Predator hunting is all coming to a head as she suddenly finds herself in the crosshairs as it becomes clear that her mission may be a trap," he teased.
I could be mistaken but are the details of the Super Predators or Berserkers from PredatorS and the upgrade mutated hybrid predators from The Predator evocative of Bad bloods in yautja lore?
Quote from: XENOMORPHOSIS on Nov 25, 2023, 03:35:09 PMI could be mistaken but are the details of the Super Predators or Berserkers from PredatorS and the upgrade mutated hybrid predators from The Predator evocative of Bad bloods in yautja lore?
I don't know, but I had also a feeling that it might be the case. The ones from Predators are hunting others from their species, wchich I presume isn't normally allowed, since we rarely see that behaviour. And upgraded Predator is acting more like a thug than a hunter, he isn't interested in hunting, just in artifically making himself stronger and killing for the sake of killing. Of course if we ignore that the movie is implying that most of Predators are doing it. I always thought that only tghat specific upgraded one, or eventually small group lost their way and started those experimentations, and that's why we see a conflict with fugitive. Of course it's better not to think much about story in The Predator, better to just flow with it and have dumb fun.
Predator: The Last Hunt - Issue #2 solicit:
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THE RETURN OF JOHN SCHAEFER!
What is Dutch's brother doing on a Predator's game planet in the far reaches of space?! And more importantly – will he get in Theta's way? The lifelong refugee has revenge to serve up – and she is not about to let it get cold. Brisson and Manna's epic adventure continues!
Quote from: Chieftain Suom on Dec 21, 2023, 09:22:11 PMPredator: The Last Hunt - Issue #2 solicit:
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THE RETURN OF JOHN SCHAEFER!
What is Dutch's brother doing on a Predator's game planet in the far reaches of space?! And more importantly – will he get in Theta's way? The lifelong refugee has revenge to serve up – and she is not about to let it get cold. Brisson and Manna's epic adventure continues!
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Quote from: Chieftain Suom on Dec 21, 2023, 09:22:11 PMPredator: The Last Hunt - Issue #2 solicit:
Spoiler
THE RETURN OF JOHN SCHAEFER!
What is Dutch's brother doing on a Predator's game planet in the far reaches of space?! And more importantly – will he get in Theta's way? The lifelong refugee has revenge to serve up – and she is not about to let it get cold. Brisson and Manna's epic adventure continues!
The Dark Horse stuff is canon again?!
Or are they picking characters and re-canonizing them like how they did for Star Wars?
Quote from: TilotnyWorshiper28 on Dec 21, 2023, 10:33:32 PMQuote from: Chieftain Suom on Dec 21, 2023, 09:22:11 PMPredator: The Last Hunt - Issue #2 solicit:
Spoiler
THE RETURN OF JOHN SCHAEFER!
What is Dutch's brother doing on a Predator's game planet in the far reaches of space?! And more importantly – will he get in Theta's way? The lifelong refugee has revenge to serve up – and she is not about to let it get cold. Brisson and Manna's epic adventure continues!
Spoiler
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I'm really hyped on this! Love that Brisson is bringing back OG comic characters
This is such a huge win, I'm here all for this! I wonder if we'll see Dutch and his team soon one day.
I'm not sure how to feel about them re-canonizing some if not all of the Dark Horse stuff. I mean the comics from Marvel and Dark Horse just... doesn't seem to mesh in my opinion.
It's not like there was a single unifying canon in the Predator comics beforehand.
Quote from: SiL on Dec 22, 2023, 03:56:03 AMIt's not like there was a single unifying canon in the Predator comics beforehand.
From how I read things, I had thought that there was. I mean the way I looked at it, the 2013 reboot with Fire and Stone had lead me to believe they dumped most if not all of the old stuff.
Quote from: TilotnyWorshiper28 on Dec 21, 2023, 10:33:32 PMQuote from: Chieftain Suom on Dec 21, 2023, 09:22:11 PMPredator: The Last Hunt - Issue #2 solicit:
Spoiler
THE RETURN OF JOHN SCHAEFER!
What is Dutch's brother doing on a Predator's game planet in the far reaches of space?! And more importantly – will he get in Theta's way? The lifelong refugee has revenge to serve up – and she is not about to let it get cold. Brisson and Manna's epic adventure continues!
Spoiler
(https://i0.wp.com/aiptcomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/PREDATOR2024002_cvr.jpg?ssl=1)
Well this is damn exciting and unexpected! Very very eager for this one! Thoroughly enjoyed The Preserve (felt like Brisson had found his feet with Theta more, she's still the main issue I had with the first arc) so quite keen to see where he goes from here. I feel like this was setup nicely from the cryo-storage angle introduced in The Preserve too.
I'm very excited about this characters return! Gives me hope that some other favorites will be back one day.
We sort of had the "all-star Predator survivors" in the Hunters series. But still, happy about his return.
Just finished "The Preserve TPB" and it was pretty good.
Enjoyed the first issue. Very slow but the last panel is cool.
I really enjoyed this one too. Nice to see them have such a huge gap of non-activity for them. I enjoyed the little tiff between the two, and Theta's solid reasoning for that special gift. Seems like she's going to have an uphill battle in this one too.
How would you compare the Hunters series to the Marvel one in terms of quality?
I appreciate the slow burn for the first issue, helps establish the tone of this story arc and seeing what Theta and Pablo are up to. Also welcome to see a Predator hunt more alien races and seeing that there is other life out there. Not too keen the current set up on Theta and her Predator hunts...
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Why would they avoid her? She would be a magnet for better hunters to track her down and hunt, but instead they leave heads of other kills on pikes using her method of mocking Predators with the Predator kills she made, taunting her back and run away? I don't like this characterization one bit. It would make more sense if the toll on her body and mental health currently was due to MORE dangerous clans of Predators trying her on for being such a proficient Predator Killer. Kind of like the toll of Batman fighting criminals in Gotham everyday makes him more cynical but still loyal to the people of Gotham.
HOWEVER I am curious about that ending...
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John Schafer is indeed back and apparently with 50 people behind him? Thats a lot of characters right there, a small but welcome army to fight alongside them. Thing is that the ending tagline hints that there will be headbutting between John and Theta. Wonder what's up with that. Hope they don't turn him into a villian.
I do hope that we can see Dutch Schafer come in and have great brotherly reunion. He did say the cells in his body stopped aging so at least we are talking about a huge extension on his lifespan. Would suck terribly if John does kick the bucket and John never finds out what happened to Dutch.
Overall, the first issue is flawed but still enough for me to continue on reading. Think the first spoiler is the only major flaw that is doing it for me.
EDIT: Giving much thought to this days later and I realize it's even worse with the comparison of
Predator vs Wolverine. This particular Predator (lets just call him Copperhead for now) kept coming back for a man that had claws that can grow from his hands and with a fast regeneration factor. Copperhead soon found out his nemesis had gotten a indestructible skeletal metal alloy upgrade
AND STILL KEPT GOING AFTER WOLVERINE. Even still fought Wolverine to the death knowing full well he can't take him out.
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Why are the Predators here displaying less valor and gusto for a normal human with power armor to the point of avoiding her? This just unintentionally makes Theta a mary sue and just makes her case of having unearned valor of a certified Predator Hunter even stronger.
I enjoyed the second issue! Story is ramping up nicely, even if a little predictably thanks to the solicitations. Loved the idea of John just munching on
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dead River Ghost :laugh:
Just finished the second issue. It revealed some things that I've been wondering for a while now and it's gotten me hooked:
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Confirmed that Awja is not only fine but is working for a still existing OWLF. Leaves open to interpretation that perhaps OWLF didn't fail as Keyes thought it did. Maybe even went back to it and turned things around, seeing how he was losing faith in OWLF in the last recording in PHG.
Last John was active was in a Thai jungle before the kidnapping. Wonder what was that mission was about.
THEORY: Dutch did had a fight with Cleopatra in Laos I believe so perhaps John was tracking her trail and got kidnapped.
John is still looking for Dutch, thinking that he might have been kidnapped like the others.
Couldn't help but grin at that one panel with Theta, John, Paolo, and a huge ass crew behind her on a new mission all together. Kind of nice to see she gots some great help after being solo, than a duo for so long. I'm still not all that ok with how the last issue portrayed the Predators animosity towards Theta, but I hope the next issues make up for it.