Alien fans are no strangers to alternate continuities. Is it Hicks and Newt who met General Spears, or is it really Wilks and Billie? Dark Horse explored the idea towards the end of their time with Alien, adapting William Gibson's second draft of "Alien 3" and Dan O'Bannon's very first draft of the original "Alien". Now it's Marvel's turn with ... [Read More]

It was announced earlier this year that we'd be getting another Predator comic collection from Marvel reprinting a number of classic series from Dark Horse Comics. Predator: The Original Years Omnibus Volume 2 is set to release in March of 2024, but it seems that two comics have been removed from the lineup as per reporting from ... [Read More]

With the release of Marvel's solicitations for February 2024, we now know that a new 4 issue series from Marvel and returning writer Ed Brisson is due to hit comic book store shelves on the 21st of February 2024! For years, Theta has hunted and killed Predators in her search for the one that killed her parents. Now ... [Read More]

Dave Baker and Eric Calderon, the Western animation consultants and producers for the still vaulted Aliens vs. Predator anime project, appeared on the Best TV Never Made podcast to talk about their time working on the project. In the first of their two appearances, the duo talked in detail about the early iteration of the production when ... [Read More]

When Josh Izzo, the former Director of Licensing at 20th Century Fox responsible for kicking off the production of the Alien vs. Predator anime, previously discussed the details behind the anime, he mentioned two people brought on board as Western animation consultants and producers - Dave Baker and Eric Calderon. Both recently appeared on an episode ... [Read More]

This morning Marvel announced a new, double sized issue they'll be brining to us this fall: Alien Annual #1. The comic is written by Declan Shalvey, who you may recognize as the writer for the currently ongoing 'Thaw' arc. Shalvey will be teaming up with newer Marvel artist Danny Earls, who has worked on Star Wars: Darth ... [Read More]

While Alien has seen the release of all 4 of Marvel's Original Years Omnibus volumes, only a single volume has been released for Predator. And that was after a delay of nearly a year following the legal dispute between Predator creators Jim and John Thomas and Disney. Since then, Predator fans have been awaiting the announcement of a second ... [Read More]

Update 21/05/2023 - Shinji Aramaki has now confirmed on his Twitter account that, as we suspected below, he was the one behind the animation and that he doesn't know the reason behind its lack of release.  https://twitter.com/snjaramaki/status/1660189522444034048?s=46&t=4MmJPeLWxEPlt4zMVk2tZw As part of their Alien Day celebrations this year, the folk over at the Perfect Organism Podcast interviewed Josh Izzo, ... [Read More]

Rafael Adolini, a name we first saw engraved on a centuries old flintlock pistol, immediately ignited the imaginations of Predator fans. A year was coupled with Adolini’s name: 1715, revealing that the Predators had been traveling to earth to hunt for at least hundreds of years, and possibly quite longer. The pistol was a gift from the elder of the ... [Read More]

One of the elements of the Predator franchise that I absolutely love is how flexible it is. You can take the Predator and drop it into another genre, or another timeframe, and build a narrative around it quite easily. This is a lesson that the expanded universe learned really early on. Dark Horse made great use of this flexibility with ... [Read More]

From the moment we saw that early 1700s date being confirmed, it would be safe to say many fans came to the same expectation - that Prey would feature Raphael Adolini's infamous flintlock pistol first introduced at the end of Predator 2. And we weren't wrong! Talking to Insider.com, Prey director Dan Trachtenberg has dished some details ... [Read More]

As was done with Marvel's relaunch of the Alien comics after the license was transferred from Dark Horse Comics, Predator will appear on the variant covers on a number of Marvel's core series to celebrate the long awaited start of the new Predator comics. These covers feature speculative match ups with Marvel's hero characters. Originally scheduled for last ... [Read More]

While speaking to The Hollywood Reporter in celebration of his 20th anniversary at the company, 20th Century Studios president Steve Asbell talked briefly about Dan Trachtenberg's upcoming Predator film, Prey. Asbell was asked about the kind of remakes or original content that the studio was producing, when the studio president used Prey as an example and elaborated ... [Read More]