Aliens vs. Predator vs. Terminator

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Summary: Well this was a waste of paper....
Review: I think they wrote this as a proported movie script for a team-up movie with all of these monsters in it. I just hope it never gets made because as a comic, it's the worst piece of trash ever published.

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Summary: Is Dark Horse on the verge of bankruptcy?
Review: This involves a breakdown of any originality in their books so they try and combine three characters from three movie series into one story and try to make all the movies and the characters in them sound like they all took place in one universe, I wonder if Ridley Scott and James Cameron read these books and laughed at them because they were so bad. It's too much, it's like all those Dracula/Frankenstein/Wolfman team-movies that were done in the 1940's. Only here it's on the comic book pages and it really stinks. Dark Horse looses all crediability as a comic book company, and meanwhile DC and Marvel look better and better all the time...

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Summary: huh?
Review: Well I can't deny it...i absolutely love the Alien, Predator and Terminator. So when I heard of the crossover that pit all 3 against each other, I was thrilled...until I bought it and read it, that is.

This is probably the most convoluted and bizarre story yet in the Aliens vs. Predator universe. It hardly consists of any of the 3 fighting each other at all...at least not to the extent of which the cover and blurb on the back would have one assume. The story tells of John Connor and the resistance defeating Skynet, only to have Skynet reawakened years later by Terminators that have gone into deep cover, posing as scientists. To assure victory, samples of Alien DNA have been used to construct a new generation of Terminator, which the Predators see as a great threat of war.

If it sounds ridiculous...it is. The story is bizarre and goes in all different directions. And worse yet...it spins off of Alien: Resurrection. That alone makes me not like this comic, aside from the bizarre story and sub-par artwork. The story even has Ripley 'become' a Predator. So...she's human, she's Alien, and now she's Predator. The book just gets worse and worse as you go on.

I suppose if you are a fan of any or all of the characters, like I am, it should pique your interest. But the sloppy and senseless story combined with the elements that made Resurrection such a bad movie, not to mention the lack of attention paid to detail both in artwork and in story, just make this comic unreadable. This is a crossover that had so much potential, and it could have been in so many different, better ways...but it turned out to be nothing more than an attempt to throw 3 popular franchises into one book as a cash-graber. Buy this if you are a collector and want it for your collection, but don't bother reading it. Otherwise just stay away from it completely.

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Summary: what a bad story...
Review: well, really, the comic art itself is great, the idea is cool if somewhat twisted (hey, we're talking about Dark Horse...), but the plot is absolutely plain stupid. I myself could think of 2 or 3 better ways to tell a story about Aliens and Predators meeting the Terminators, but Dark Horse chose the WORST ever imaginable plot line. for collectors only.