Best comic book covers of the week – April 06 2020

Posted on April 6, 2021

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Last year was meant to be the dawn of a new era for Disney’s latest set of acquisitions, as the comic book publishing rights to Aliens and Predator said “Bye Felicia” to Dark Horse Comics. The book was closed on several decades of stories that the celebrated publisher had printed, and now it was Marvel’s turn to craft new tales starring the deadliest hunter in the galaxy.

So what’s happening with all things Predator right now? Turns out, not a lot.

Marvel has canceled orders for all its planned Predator products, which included a new Predator ongoing series written by Ed Brisson and drawn by Kev Walker, omnibus collections of previously printed works, and almost two-dozen Marvel vs Predator variant covers which admittedly looked pretty sick, dude.

Heck, that previously mentioned new series had a killer setup as well. “Hunt. Kill. Repeat. In the near future, a young girl sees her family slaughtered by the deadliest and most feared hunter in the universe: a PREDATOR,” read Marvel’s description of Predator #1 a while back.

Years later, though her ship is barely holding together and food is running short, Theta won’t stop stalking the spaceways until the Yautja monster who killed her family is dead…or she is.

But right now it looks like the entire line has been delayed. According to Newsarama, people working on the project weren’t even informed until April 1, which must have made for a confusing day. While the Predator products won’t be shipping soon, they’ll apparently being rescheduled to November. Marvel has yet to comment, but if you were waiting patiently for one ugly mother-lover to rear his tentacled head then you’re going to have to wait a bit longer. My tinfoil hat theory? Someone at Marvel watched the last Predator movie, which was all kinds of yikes.

Until that series returns, here’s a look at the best non-Predator comic book covers of the week!