Quote from: happypred on May 05, 2014, 02:22:12 AM
No...that's not what I'm getting at. It's possible to borrow design aesthetics without borrowing the underlying concept. I don't know how to put this in simpler terms. Like you said, it would be a bit confusing but it could be done.
It was confusing at first glance when I looked at it, and is still somewhat confusing now.
Quote from: happypred on May 05, 2014, 02:22:12 AM
It's possible that Sebela likes the design aesthetics of the Super Predators. He also likes the idea of a non-Classic tribe of predators. However, he might be dropping the Super Predator concept: supposedly bigger, badder predators who have game reserve planets, use hounds and falcons, treat Classics as prey to be tormented
Then that just goes back to the Killer Clan concept again.. And that concept was pulled off a lot better than PREDATORS' ideas of inherently evil clans. Say what you want about the storyline of the last relaunch comics, and I'm talking into account of Prey to the Heavens and Three World War. The Killers took the implied concept of Bad Blood clans and solidified them.
Sure, different clans and different rules.. but that has always been implied in the EU and wasn't really seen until Prey to the Heavens, Three World War and of course... PREDATORS.
But I get what you're saying and all, I do but if you ask me.. the art tells me these are Super Predators. I'm looking at this like someone who isn't as deep in the franchises as we are, and if I were the layman, I'd be thinking: "Hey, it's those new Predators that Robbie made, cool."
Quote from: happypred on May 05, 2014, 02:22:12 AM
The result is a non-Classic tribe of predators who look like the Supers but who don't act like them. We could call them quasi-Supers...or Sebela's "re-imagining" of the Supers. You might even call it a retcon.
Oh how I would love it if the Super Predators were retconned. You have no idea how that would make me so happy. But comics really so much as can't retcon the films, they have to follow them. Licensees really aren't allowed to the change the stories of the source material or deviate too far-- though the latter has been known to happen in the past.
Now the idea of different sub-species has sort of been around since Predator 2, and if you count the Batman and Superman crossover-- those as well but to me, the Super Predators were just.. taken to an unnecessary extreme of that idea. As for them being Quasi-Super, or Semi-Super.. I don't know. No one knows. I'm just going by what the art shows me.
Quote from: happypred on May 05, 2014, 02:22:12 AM
If that were the case, then true Supers (the ones in the movie) might not even exist in the universe of the new AvP series. My point is that Sebela has a lot of room to play with ideas. He's not strictly bound to previous lore. It's possible that the Super-looking predators are neither "regular" Predators nor true Super Predators.
So now you're saying that as far as the reboot AvP Universe is concerned, the Super Predators may not exist? I wish that was something which could be the case but I doubt it. And you speak as if there is more than one Alien-Predator universe, and if you are then might I introduce you to the Multiverse thread in the Alien-Predator General Discussion thread? Assuming if that's what you are implying from the sidelines anyway regarding that little tidbit.
And if you want to get technical, the Super Predators sort of have found their way in the/a AvP Universe... Namely AvP Evolution but do you actually count that particular game? I sure as heck don't.