Thanks for the feedback on my predictions!
One thing about the reboot I'm curious about is how the individual series will read month-to-month. Xenogenesis was released one miniseries at a time (Aliens for four months, then Predator, then AvP), and the '09/'10 relaunch was basically released that way, too. But this time around the four series are being released in a nested way, two a month (Prometheus #1 + Aliens #1 in June, then AvP #1 + Predator #1 in July, etc.). I wonder how that will effect reading each story, especially since Scott Allie has said that some series are basically sequels to others. For example, will we see things in AvP #1 that won't fully make sense until Prometheus #4? It'll be interesting to see how they handle it.
Mike Richardson and Randy Stradley did another interview with Comic Book Resources today. They talked a bit about the new A/v/P comics, but nothing really substantial.
http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=50557A few quotes:
"So we decided to find a way to fill in the cracks around what Ridley [Scott] is doing with his movies. He himself said that this all took place in the same universe, and we took that as our launch point to again make comics that we thought would make for great movies. We want to answer a few of the questions that were raised in "Prometheus" and pose some additional questions while having a related set of books all set in that same fictional universe."
"We spent a lot of time just sorting out how we could do this and what the rules would be. How can we answer questions posed in the film itself while also not going too far astray from Ridley's ideas? So just tackling "Prometheus" in that way was a task, and then we had to find how to tell stories in the other franchises where we could also have a set of related characters through all the comics."
"We've been coming up with some related-but-varied themes for each part of the story. So the story in the "Prometheus" chapter is a different story from the one in the "Aliens" chapter which is different than the one in the "Predators" chapter. They're all obviously one larger story, but within the pieces, we're making sure to pin down satisfying stories within each franchise chapter."
"The launches will be staggered, but we'll talk more about that when we get towards the launch dates." That's the only thing that caught my eye, since I was just asking about that earlier today.
Overall, nothing new.