The Predator Makes Their Marvel Comics Debut This July
The Predator is finally making their Marvel Comics debut this summer to expand their hunting grounds. Ever since their debut film in 1987 when they took on Arnold Schwarzenegger, the Predator has become an iconic monster. They've appeared in various forms of media over the past three decades including movie sequels, a comic and movie crossover with the Xenomorphs from Alien, an even weirder crossover with Archie Comics. Now the Predator is coming to Marvel for their landmark 35th anniversary, and it's bound to be an exciting story.
After the success of their currently ongoing Alien comic series, Marvel recently released a press announcement highlighting that the Xenomorphs' biggest threat, the Predator, would be entering the Marvel universe. Predator will be written by Ed Brisson and illustrated by Kev Walker. Both creators have a fairly rich background in Marvel Comics with Brisson writing for Iron Fist and Ghost Rider while Walker drew for Dr. Strange and the Star Wars comic series, Doctor Aphra. Now the two are coming together to pen a new story for the vicious alien hunter, and the early premise seems very promising.
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According to Marvel, the story will follow a young woman named Theta whose family was killed by the Predator. Years later, she's looking for them to exact her revenge, and she "won't stop stalking the spaceways until the Yajuta monster who killed her family is dead...or she is." Already, this sounds like a great premise for a new Predator story. People are so used to the Predator using Earth as their hunting grounds with only one notable film, Predators, taking their prey off world to their home planet. The comic series seems to
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