We aren’t dealing with a simple hunt where Predators are after Aliens and humans bumble their way in.
Straight off the bat Thicker Than Blood turns things around. It still has to actually be good and satisfy me though. He surprised me! I love nothing more than when a story takes tropes and flips them on their heads, or just straight up goes in the opposite direction. Jeremy Barlow did something with Thicker Than Blood that I absolutely love. And what an entry it was! As always, beware some spoilers. Though he would also go on to write Predator: The Original Screenplay – which unfortunately became a victim of all the circumstances above – Thicker Than Blood was actually his first entry into the Alien and Predator expanded universe. The series was written by Jeremy Barlow, a writer perhaps better known for his work within the Star Wars series. While the single collectors never got the third and fourth issue, we were fortunate enough that Dark Horse managed to put out a trade paperback of Thicker Than Blood, meaning that we were still able to experience the completed story. And then Disney pulled the license from Dark Horse, giving it to Marvel, which left Dark Horse until the 31st of December to deal with their unreleased or unfinished Alien and Predator series. Then COVID-19 hit and the printers shut down. The first issue was released on December 11th 2019, with the second following on January 15th 2020. So much of it is unlike your typical Alien vs. It’s Dark Horse’s very last Alien vs. Things that set it apart from the other stories by simple value of distinction and things that the series does that I just want to talk about. There’s a lot of things to say about Alien vs. Maria and Tyler scramble to hide from the Predators, and feel they might have a chance when an Alien is thrown into the mix… until the creature targets them as well! It’s a harrowing battle for survival that hinges on the bravery of the little android and raises the question of when does love and compassion trump programming?
A luxury spaceship is attacked by Predators! In short order, the passengers and crew are reduced to two survivors: the teenage Maria and her younger “brother” Tyler – a synthetic companion she views now as a burden.
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