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    Predator: Life And Death #2
    Released by: Dark Horse Comics
    Released on: April 6th, 2016.
    Written by: Dan Abnett
    Illustrated by: Brian Albert Thiess
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    Missed the first issue?

    “Captain Paget and her platoon of Colonial Marines are dispatched to Tartarus to enforce a Weyland-Yutani claim on the planet, only to find more than they bargained for. The surviving claim jumpers reveal that they discovered a derelict spacecraft of extraterrestrial design—and a group of XT hunters who, after practically hunting the claim jumpers to extinction, have set their sights on the marines.

    Now Paget and her troops must battle an enemy they can't see while balancing the objectives of the Weyland-Yutani Corporation with the necessity of getting off the planet alive . . .”

    Now you're caught up. Paget and her team figure that what they've just stumbled upon is XT - xenotech - but they don't know exactly what it is or what it's for and won't until they can study it. Paget wants to secure the landing zones first, but assures scientists Lorimer and Singer that they will examine it once they've prepped. Only Paget realizes they're being watched.

    And then they find a survivor named Goode. He's threatened with jail time and says he'd welcome it, after all he's survived…. something. Things that weren't there he calls them. He just wants to get off this rock and get back to somewhere safe. Paget figures since they found the XT that maybe Goode's not nuts after all. She has a team set out to try and find if any of Goode's crew has been left alive, while she and Lorimer argue about what to do with the XT they've discovered. Lorimer is towing the corporate line to a ridiculous degree but Paget is keeping the safety of her crew in mind. She puts Singer in charge of putting a team together to examine the XT once the search and rescue marines are back safely from their mission.

    When she learns that three soldiers are MIA she radios the search and rescue team to tell them to keep an eye out and be careful, but what she really means to tell them, unofficially, is that there ARE hostiles in the area. Paget hears gunfire in the distance, her people firing at something, and then two men, Melville and Captain Humble, appear out of nowhere.

    Things get violent in this issue. People die, and how! Abnett spends the first half of the comic building suspense, pulling us into the drama that exists between the science officers and the soldiers, but we know while all of this is going on that the Predators are circling the human characters. It's a solid way of letting the story unfold, letting the reader know what's out there but keeping the characters slightly in the dark about things. That changes in the last few pages where it all hits the fan and those things that weren't there make it very clear that yeah, they are there, and they're ready to kill. Abnett's writing balances the action and the human drama effectively, while Brian Albert Thiess and colorist Rain Beredo bring the script to life in grand style. The colors are bright and bold without being overdone while the penciling has the right mix of detail and movement to really work quite well. Killer cover art from David Palumbo too.







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