Aliens Vs. Predator

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Summary: great art, great story, and what an unusal ending
Review: This was as you may know the mini- series that stared it all.AVP is going to be known as a dark horse cult-classic. Well any way the story begins on a human ranching colony on a desert planet named ryushi when an unknown ship breaches the atmosphere and lands near the gazeing ground of some type space cattle the ranchers rease.The ship starts placing alien eggs every where. Then the cattle get facehugged.When the round comes time the cattle become sick, hours later aliens are hacthing and startin a hive. soon after wards predators show up, kill a family all but a little boy and two people go missing and catlle are dying left and right.the colony build up baracads and get the only weapons they have. But the predators get through and start killing colonists and start killing aliens. This was a great stroy and a must buy for your colllection.

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Summary: A landmark comic miniseries that started it all.
Review: Moviegoers will get their first taste of this intergalactic battle when ALIENS VS. PREDATOR hits the big screens in 2004 with all of its megabudgeted glory, but comic books that led the way. In an unusual reversal, the 1990 release of ALIENS VS. PREDATOR from Dark Horse Publishing took two licensed comic properties and made a significant impact on the source material; echoes of the comic book crossover passed into the films themselves, with an alien skull making a cameo appearance in PREDATOR 2. And now the story has come full-circle: Dark Horse plans to release an adaptation of the new ALIENS VS. PREDATOR film in 2004.

This collection from Dark Horse brings together the four issues of the original ALIENS VS. PREDATOR miniseries, plus a prologue and an epilogue originally featured in Dark Horse's now-defunct anthology title, DARK HORSE PRESENTS. Writer Randy Stradley teamed up with Hollywood concept- and storyboard-artist Phill Norwood to bring comicdom this SF adventure.

The scene is the planet Ryushi, where colonist/ranchers raise cow-like animals in a scorching-hot desert. We meet Machiko Noguchi, a hard-nosed corporate officer trying to win the respect of the rugged frontierspeople she's been asked to oversee. She's not very successful, and with the pressure of a roundup (the animal meat is sold off-planet) underway, Machiko isn't ready for the arrival of two very unfriendly alien species.

It seems the predators have used Ryushi as a hunting ground for generations, seeding the planet with aliens to hunt and then using this controlled situation to blood young warriors. An unexpected encounter with humans the predators didn't even know were there, compounded with an error that sent a queen alien to Ryushi to spawn an uncontrolled number of offspring, and the stage is set for mayhem.

ALIENS VS. PREDATOR delivers on its promise to show predators and aliens in life-or-death battle, but Stradley wisely chooses to focus on the humans caught between the two sides, Machiko in particular. The corporate drone blossoms into a hardy warrior trying to save the lives of her colonist charges and destroy the alien menace. It's a lot of action to pack into four issues, and consequently the story can feel a little rushed.

Fourteen years haven't treated the artwork in ALIENS VS. PREDATOR particularly well. Norwood is an accomplished artist, but his work was not flattered by the colors common to comics at the time. The ALIENS VS. PREDATOR collection actually uses digital colors to replace those that were featured in the individual issues, but this was when such technology was in its infancy, and the results are only so-so. It doesn't help matters that Norwood left to perform art duties on T2 before the series was finished, leaving artist Chris Warner to pick up the slack in the final issue and prologue. The two men's art styles are different enough that the change is easily noticed.

Whatever its weaknesses in retrospect, ALIENS VS. PREDATOR was genuinely groundbreaking. It spawned a handful of direct sequels and an untold number of knock-offs where aliens fought everyone from Superman to Tarzan, and now its legacy is immortalized on film. Not bad for a little licensed comic by a small company no one had ever really heard of before.

Rating:
Summary: A landmark comic miniseries that started it all.
Review: Moviegoers will get their first taste of this intergalactic battle when ALIENS VS. PREDATOR hits the big screens in 2004 with all of its megabudgeted glory, but comic books that led the way. In an unusual reversal, the 1990 release of ALIENS VS. PREDATOR from Dark Horse Publishing took two licensed comic properties and made a significant impact on the source material; echoes of the comic book crossover passed into the films themselves, with an alien skull making a cameo appearance in PREDATOR 2. And now the story has come full-circle: Dark Horse plans to release an adaptation of the new ALIENS VS. PREDATOR film in 2004.

This collection from Dark Horse brings together the four issues of the original ALIENS VS. PREDATOR miniseries, plus a prologue and an epilogue originally featured in Dark Horse's now-defunct anthology title, DARK HORSE PRESENTS. Writer Randy Stradley teamed up with Hollywood concept- and storyboard-artist Phill Norwood to bring comicdom this SF adventure.

The scene is the planet Ryushi, where colonist/ranchers raise cow-like animals in a scorching-hot desert. We meet Machiko Noguchi, a hard-nosed corporate officer trying to win the respect of the rugged frontierspeople she's been asked to oversee. She's not very successful, and with the pressure of a roundup (the animal meat is sold off-planet) underway, Machiko isn't ready for the arrival of two very unfriendly alien species.

It seems the predators have used Ryushi as a hunting ground for generations, seeding the planet with aliens to hunt and then using this controlled situation to blood young warriors. An unexpected encounter with humans the predators didn't even know were there, compounded with an error that sent a queen alien to Ryushi to spawn an uncontrolled number of offspring, and the stage is set for mayhem.

ALIENS VS. PREDATOR delivers on its promise to show predators and aliens in life-or-death battle, but Stradley wisely chooses to focus on the humans caught between the two sides, Machiko in particular. The corporate drone blossoms into a hardy warrior trying to save the lives of her colonist charges and destroy the alien menace. It's a lot of action to pack into four issues, and consequently the story can feel a little rushed.

Fourteen years haven't treated the artwork in ALIENS VS. PREDATOR particularly well. Norwood is an accomplished artist, but his work was not flattered by the colors common to comics at the time. The ALIENS VS. PREDATOR collection actually uses digital colors to replace those that were featured in the individual issues, but this was when such technology was in its infancy, and the results are only so-so. It doesn't help matters that Norwood left to perform art duties on T2 before the series was finished, leaving artist Chris Warner to pick up the slack in the final issue and prologue. The two men's art styles are different enough that the change is easily noticed.

Whatever its weaknesses in retrospect, ALIENS VS. PREDATOR was genuinely groundbreaking. It spawned a handful of direct sequels and an untold number of knock-offs where aliens fought everyone from Superman to Tarzan, and now its legacy is immortalized on film. Not bad for a little licensed comic by a small company no one had ever really heard of before.

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Summary: eh
Review: not the best comic. the inclusion of 'duel' made the title bearable to have purchased. the crossover with "aliens berserker" would have been enjoyable, if i understood what all the quickly introduced characters with unexplained pasts were talking about half the time. then it would have been enjoyable.

now, if only dark horse would publish a softcover compliation of Aliens: Colonial Marines.

Rating:
Summary: Great
Review: This comic is awesome. It has Aliens, Predators, humans, and guns. Chestburster action also. The movie is set way in the future. The predators have now captured Alien Queens so she can make eggs. Then, the Predators put the eggs in an area on a planet where there's life that can get impregnated by the Face Huggers. Then, the predators go and hunt the Aliens. But, something goes wrong on one of these trips. The ship carrying the eggs explodes, the Aliens are let on the loose, they invade a humanized colony, bad stuff happens, people die, The main protagonist who happens to be a Predator is introduced, and stuff happens. Awesome comic, and a must have.

Rating:
Summary: Great
Review: This comic is awesome. It has Aliens, Predators, humans, and guns. Chestburster action also. The movie is set way in the future. The predators have now captured Alien Queens so she can make eggs. Then, the Predators put the eggs in an area on a planet where there's life that can get impregnated by the Face Huggers. Then, the predators go and hunt the Aliens. But, something goes wrong on one of these trips. The ship carrying the eggs explodes, the Aliens are let on the loose, they invade a humanized colony, bad stuff happens, people die, The main protagonist who happens to be a Predator is introduced, and stuff happens. Awesome comic, and a must have.

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Summary: same thing
Review: W A R N I N G:
This comic book is exactally like the book Aliens vs. predator: Prey. I recommend that you read the novel before the comic, or you will not understand a lot of it. I liked the book much more than the comic because there is more detail and a better understanding. read the book first folks!

Rating:
Summary: same thing
Review: W A R N I N G:
This comic book is exactally like the book Aliens vs. predator: Prey. I recommend that you read the novel before the comic, or you will not understand a lot of it. I liked the book much more than the comic because there is more detail and a better understanding. read the book first folks!