Predator Hunters III #2
Dark Horse Comics 2020
Written by Chris Warner
Illustrated by Brian Thies
Coloured by Wes Dzioba
Lettered by Michael Heisler
The Hunters team is in Belize, where they have an acrimonious meeting with the newly arrived Russian team that is after the same quarry. Fortunately, an unexpected player from Dark Horse's very first Predator series is there to prevent bloodshed. Meanwhile, the Predators are busy racking up a body count in the jungle!
God this is an amazing book. I mean I know that Chris knows this like few others do but honestly I wasn't expecting anything as good as is. The opening is bloody brilliant, literally and I really like the way it continues to demonstrate how active in this area the Predator's are. Which is really only natural considering that the are is full of drug cartels who have weaponis galore as they protect their area and their product. This lends itself to the Predator's beautifully since they see the weapons and those that wield them as potential kills to boost their own reputations. I like it, if you attack or show yourself with a weapon of some sort you're toast if not your left relatively alone.
The way that this is being told is utterly fantastic! The story & plot development that we see through how the sequence of events unfold as well as how the reader learns information is presented exceptionally well. Just how things come at the reader and how this creates the flow of the story we get everything we need for the moment and a glimpse at the shitstorm to come. The character development is marvellous and I love the posturing and agonistic behaviour that we see and this is what we're going to remember later when it all hits the fan. It'll be interesting to see how their personalities change. The pacing is crazy good and as it takes us through the pages revealing the twists and turns along the way it works with everything else to create this beautiful ebb & flow.
This is what I love about comics. Time is never a factor and stories can be placed anywhere within a franchises timeline. While the Alien franchise is stellar stuff and I generally tend to stray away from the VS. I do like the mainlined series like this. This just feels right and it's hard to explain but you know it when you experience it.
The interiors here are sensational! The underwater scenes in the opening really look like something off the National Geographic Channel programming. The creativity and imagination that we see is mindbogglingly good and then of course to make this as eerie as it can be it's crazy good. The way that we see how backgrounds are utilised and how they work within the composition of the panels to bring us this amazing depth perception, sense of scale and the overall size and scope to the book is phenomenal to see. The utilisation of the page layouts and how we see the angles and perspective in the panels show such an amazing eye for storytelling. The colour work we see here is divine stuff. How the hues and tones within the colours are utilised to create this level of shading, highlights and shadow work is mind blowing. The work we see shows someone who understands how colour works, how there are some unusual tones within them that we don't normally think about. It's simply beautiful stuff.
This is everything we want to see in a Predator series. It has the Predator's out and about wreaking havoc and those who think they can stand up and take em. The tomfoolery in how they behave and that we see such chutzpah is rendered amazingly well. With layers in the storytelling and a simple complexity in how it's all being built this is a sure fire must have!
Dark Horse Comics 2020
Written by Chris Warner
Illustrated by Brian Thies
Coloured by Wes Dzioba
Lettered by Michael Heisler
The Hunters team is in Belize, where they have an acrimonious meeting with the newly arrived Russian team that is after the same quarry. Fortunately, an unexpected player from Dark Horse's very first Predator series is there to prevent bloodshed. Meanwhile, the Predators are busy racking up a body count in the jungle!
God this is an amazing book. I mean I know that Chris knows this like few others do but honestly I wasn't expecting anything as good as is. The opening is bloody brilliant, literally and I really like the way it continues to demonstrate how active in this area the Predator's are. Which is really only natural considering that the are is full of drug cartels who have weaponis galore as they protect their area and their product. This lends itself to the Predator's beautifully since they see the weapons and those that wield them as potential kills to boost their own reputations. I like it, if you attack or show yourself with a weapon of some sort you're toast if not your left relatively alone.
The way that this is being told is utterly fantastic! The story & plot development that we see through how the sequence of events unfold as well as how the reader learns information is presented exceptionally well. Just how things come at the reader and how this creates the flow of the story we get everything we need for the moment and a glimpse at the shitstorm to come. The character development is marvellous and I love the posturing and agonistic behaviour that we see and this is what we're going to remember later when it all hits the fan. It'll be interesting to see how their personalities change. The pacing is crazy good and as it takes us through the pages revealing the twists and turns along the way it works with everything else to create this beautiful ebb & flow.
This is what I love about comics. Time is never a factor and stories can be placed anywhere within a franchises timeline. While the Alien franchise is stellar stuff and I generally tend to stray away from the VS. I do like the mainlined series like this. This just feels right and it's hard to explain but you know it when you experience it.
The interiors here are sensational! The underwater scenes in the opening really look like something off the National Geographic Channel programming. The creativity and imagination that we see is mindbogglingly good and then of course to make this as eerie as it can be it's crazy good. The way that we see how backgrounds are utilised and how they work within the composition of the panels to bring us this amazing depth perception, sense of scale and the overall size and scope to the book is phenomenal to see. The utilisation of the page layouts and how we see the angles and perspective in the panels show such an amazing eye for storytelling. The colour work we see here is divine stuff. How the hues and tones within the colours are utilised to create this level of shading, highlights and shadow work is mind blowing. The work we see shows someone who understands how colour works, how there are some unusual tones within them that we don't normally think about. It's simply beautiful stuff.
This is everything we want to see in a Predator series. It has the Predator's out and about wreaking havoc and those who think they can stand up and take em. The tomfoolery in how they behave and that we see such chutzpah is rendered amazingly well. With layers in the storytelling and a simple complexity in how it's all being built this is a sure fire must have!
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