Dark Horse Comics Announces Predator: The Original Screenplay Comic Series!

[SiL]

Stuff like that's fairly superfluous though. The basic framework's the same, even if the fates of different characters are moved around a bit.

When you put enough of those little changes together it makes for a substantially different experience all over, though.

[felix]

Solicitations are out.
http://www.comicscontinuum.com/stories/2003/19/darkhorsejune.htm

PREDATOR: THE ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY #1

Jeremy Barlow (W), Patrick Blaine (A), Andy Owens (I), Candice Han (C), Diego Galindo (Cover), and Marc Borstelmann (Variant Cover)

A team of military specialists are on a rescue mission in the jungles of Central America. The details of the mission are classified, but the team soon uncovers a trail of lies and deceit. Something is observing them -- tracking their every move. The hunt has begun!

Adapted from the 1984 screenplay Hunters by James E. Thomas and John C. Thomas, before it became the 1987 film Predator.

32 pages, $3.99, in stores on June 10.

[Wysps]

Solicitations are out.
http://www.comicscontinuum.com/stories/2003/19/darkhorsejune.htm

PREDATOR: THE ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY #1

Jeremy Barlow (W), Patrick Blaine (A), Andy Owens (I), Candice Han (C), Diego Galindo (Cover), and Marc Borstelmann (Variant Cover)

A team of military specialists are on a rescue mission in the jungles of Central America. The details of the mission are classified, but the team soon uncovers a trail of lies and deceit. Something is observing them -- tracking their every move. The hunt has begun!

Adapted from the 1984 screenplay Hunters by James E. Thomas and John C. Thomas, before it became the 1987 film Predator.

32 pages, $3.99, in stores on June 10.

http://www.comicscontinuum.com/stories/2003/19/predator1b.htm

Well, that certainly is an interesting interpretation. I guess I can see the resemblance with the original storyboard sketches...maybe.

[Voodoo Magic]

Wow! Thanks for posting this Wysps!

I don't see any Predator tech there. Hmm...

[HuDaFuK]

The original creature didn't really have any tech, except a spear.

[SiL]

The smartdisc, in the early script. The wrist-blades were au naturel originally though.

[HuDaFuK]

I don't recall the disc in the early script on here, just the spear. Could be forgetting it though.

[SiL]

It's what Matheny uses to kill the Predator in the climax (At least, it's described as "spinning like a discus").

[HuDaFuK]

Doesn't he just lob the spear at it, like in the novel?

[SiL]

Page 115, I linked the script in the previous page. It's described as spinning like a discus.

[HuDaFuK]

Fair enough. In the novel it's the spear, which is probably why I remembered it that way.

[SiL]

I really want to read that one day. Doesn't it mind-control animals, too?

[HuDaFuK]

Not only can it can control them (at one point it uses a bird as a scout), it can physically mimic them (it turns into a jackal just by studying a tuft of its hair).

I'm not sure I could really recommend reading the book to anyone (it's pretty whack, and not in a good way), but there's definitely some crazy shit in it, especially regarding the Predator itself.

[Voodoo Magic]

Page 115, I linked the script in the previous page. It's described as spinning like a discus.

I remember that!

The original creature didn't really have any tech, except a spear.

I'm not just talking weapons, but it had suit tech. It had some sort of translucent bio suit.

[HuDaFuK]

I'm not just talking weapons, but it had suit tech. It had some sort of translucent bio suit.

Did it?

Maybe I'm getting confused between script and book again, but I thought it had chameleon-like skin rather than stealth tech.