PREDATOR
Hunter killer
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► Publisher Marvel Comics
► Writer Ed Brisson
► Artist Kev Walker
ISSUES 1-4
After recent smallscreen reboot Prey went back to the distant past, Marvel’s new monthly Predator series takes place in a near future where humanity has colonised the stars.
Getting around the standard problem of the alien trackers’ indecipherable language, initial six-parter “Day Of The Hunter” is told from the perspective of Theta, who is on a mission of vengeance after her parents were murdered by the Predators when she was a child. As indicated by the inaugural issue’s bravura, five-page opening sequence, which shows what’s apparently a pair of Predators battling – deftly depicted in near silence by Kev Walker – before the actually human victor removes her helmet, she has literally got under their skin and adopted many of their ways.