If Disney needs a sequel to Prey, Marvel Comics is aware of the best way to do it

The repeatability of the Predator franchise is its true power. Who wants an overarching canon when all a film wants is a few enjoyable characters, good motion, and the reply to a query like “How would a Roman legion react to a Predator assault?” From such humble questions come instantaneous cult classics like Prey, which pitted an aspiring Comanche warrior in opposition to the alien hunter.

However this 12 months, author Ed Brisson and artist Kev Walker have proven that there’s no unsuitable time interval for a Predator story, not even the long run.

Brisson and Walker’s Predator comedian has come to an in depth with its sixth challenge, which is annoying, as a result of I might have adopted their protagonist perpetually: Theta, lone baby survivor of a Predator assault, who cuts a bloody path throughout an alien-filled galaxy in her out of date, sentient science vessel, racking up Predator kills and accidents on a quest to seek out and execute the one which killed her household.

What else is going on within the pages of our favourite comics? We’ll inform you. Welcome to Monday Funnies, Polygon’s weekly record of the books that our comics editor loved this previous week. It’s half society pages of superhero lives, half studying suggestions, half “have a look at this cool artwork.” There could also be some spoilers. There will not be sufficient context. However there can be nice comics. (And in the event you missed the final version, learn this.)

Usually the very last thing I need a Hollywood govt to do is do not forget that they personal an organization that publishes comedian books, a lot much less print media, lest they begin making an attempt to mess with it. However I’m making an exception for Predator (2022), the comedian.

I actually do hope any person on the Walt Disney company is aware of that Marvel Comics creatives simply handed them a rock strong Predator spinoff for pennies on the greenback: What if Prey happened in a Star Wars-style universe?

Talking of ideas that deserve continuation: “Arkham Academy” is at the moment an ongoing quick within the DC anthology Batman: City Legends, and jeeze louise I want this was an ongoing already. A bunch of incarcerated youngsters and sidekicks of supervillains is distributed to Arkham Asylum for a brand new super-juvenile detention program, solely to appreciate it’s a entrance. They’ve really been trapped by the Courtroom of Owls — Gotham’s Eyes Huge Shut-style illuminati — in an try and create the subsequent era of supervillains and make sure that the chaos within the metropolis by no means stops.

One of the best #1 I learn this week was Black Cloak from author Kelly Thompson and artist Meredith McClaren. I’ve all the time obtained room for one more hard-boiled crime story set in a fantasy world, particularly one as snappy and properly executed as this. (P.S.: The Lagoon is filled with mermaids with gulper eel mouths.)

I’ve to confess that Darkish Reign just isn’t grabbing me, aside from one factor. And that’s the best way that artists and writers are selecting to play with the actually bizarre — and but, storied Marvel Comics — idea of a New York Metropolis the place all inanimate objects have been dropped at cartoonish demonic life, like an evil model of the fortress in Magnificence and the Beast.

Like right here, the place Kamala Khan’s Jersey Metropolis mosque simply grew some limbs and ran away as a result of it was uninterested in listening to congregation infighting. That is very bizarre and superb.

On the opposite facet of the spectrum, there’s J. Jonah Jameson’s mattress, which is able to completely be showing in my nightmares this weekend.