This is a strange title if ever I read one, having heard it mentioned on an episode of the Big Bang Theory but imagining it was probably just a writers joke I took a chance and searched for it on Amazon, as it happened this really was a thing and I decided I definitely had to read it.
The book includes all the comics from the complete beginning to end story arch, there is a great foreword (one page) and afterword (two pages), cover art and illustrations, sketch book, promo pages for dark horse comics predator, archie comics and another series of comics, Grindhouse, which one of the authors works upon. The foreword is brilliant, describing how the idea emerged, how the character of Archie has changed, been killed in other story arcs, the success of other titles is discussed, including Afterlife With Archie (which I also bought and read at the time I bought this, in fact read it first, which as it turns out was a good idea), and the series of comics which gave rise to even conceiving this versus match story line, which are cross over comics in which Archie meets The Punisher Frank Castle (which I have searched and better searched for on Amazon but consistently draw a blank on) which then lead to Archie meeting The Ramones, KISS and Glee. The afterword necessarily covers some of the same ground as that in the foreword but its interesting to recap on all of it after reading the comic story arc and also really interesting to see the sketches, how the artists "toonified" The Predator and also illustrating their artistic versatility.
It was also good to read how the project management had decided exactly upon the style of the comic, as is always the case with cross overs, you've got to wonder if the artists and writers are going to go more of the style which has made one or the other of the starring characters popular or not (something I've observed for better and worse in the DC/2000AD cross overs which were either more Batman and less Dreddy or more Dredd and less Batty, to mention just one, there have been a number of DC/Darkhorse cross over events too, Aliens, Predator, Batman, Superman, Justice League). In this case after going darker with Afterlife With Archie this is old skool or traditional Archie writ large (no spoilers there as surely it is very much in evidence from the cover art alone), at least the story line is very Archie, until suddenly it isnt (or so the afterword suggests they aimed for in production), all teen hi-jinx until its battle for survival time. The humour is great, the artists and writers have decided to reference a lot from the original Predator movie, the Predator comics and Alien Versus Predator universe, it all works, its really funny and amusing, very diverting from more serious reading, in comics or otherwise. Its also very, very apparent how much fun all those working on the project were having from the foreword, afterword and work itself, its great to have the chance to share in such a work of sheer fun. I do not think there is anything here that anyone, fan of either Archie or Predator comics, is going to take exception to or find offensive, no real accounting for taste and the devoted nature of fandom sometimes but I certainly dont see it, maybe I am not a dedicated enough reader of either series to consider this a travesty or insult (I've heard that Sigourney Weaver hates the Aliens Versus Predator franchise because she thought it was trivializing or ridiculous).
Recommended. Whether you are a fan of either franchise or not. Such strange awesomeess. How to follow it though?
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Reviewed in Australia on 9 June 2021
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