#1
My first impressions of this long-awaited comic are not glowing. The penciling is less then I expected. Perhaps I am spoiled when it comes to beautifully pencilled, believable pages I expect when I read a Dark Horse Predator comic. I can occationally indulge in a little ruffness in a comic, a la Bad Blood, yet this book's almost abstract look to it is very distracting.
Otherwise I enjoyed myself. I found the storyline baiting, leaving me wanting to know more. The story is going to be the seller of this one, no doubt. I am awaiting the continuation with anticipation ... By: Jim Vance and Toby Cypress

#2
The story line continues to flesh out on all fronts; the Doctor tells her observations of Predator behaviour, the 'journalist' relivies past horrors with the present, and the government conspiracy of suppressing the existance of Predators, while gaining as much knowledge as possible, (a regular Pred comic fare).
There is a tidbit of offering that suggests that we will learn more about Pred culture, but most of the time it turns out to be 'one of those' comics that only taunts with new info, a la Dark River. By: Jim Vance and Toby Cypress

#3
The Doctor continues to recount her anthropological study of the creature to the government agents; naive of their motives. Her conclusions paint the 'Old One' in a nobel light; one who takes reverance in nature and who's mission is to end the carnage.
The reporters conclusions are less glowing as he remembers his and the Doctor's introduction, and he grows ever more suspious of the spooks that are interviewing him. Yet he continues to tell them of their appearent saviour; the old one killing one of the pack and fending off the others that even the Doc describes as a coincidence. The story ends with the pack heading towards a town with the old one recovering from this encounter. By: Jim Vance and Toby Cypress

#4
The conclusion comes with the reporter creating his own conclusions of the creatures; but the final one made by the Doctor makes the head government agent nearly jump out of his skin, and begin the repress it from even his own agents! The last few pages tells in more then a suble way how the spooks handle the 'witness problem', and perhaps the last laugh of the reporter; he had hidden away some of his film in hopes of the truth coming one day.
This book was certainly worth my while; and I have come to apprieciate the look and feel of the comic. The ruffness helps highlight the idea that this was a re-telling of the story; not the living of it, a unique spin. I believe that this series is worth some attention, an interesting attempt to add some more intrique to the mythos; even under Fox's choking constriant of plotlines. By: Jim Vance and Toby Cypress