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Alien vs. Predator: Civilized Beasts
The new world was an unspoiled frontier perfect for colonization, a virtual paradise of boundless beauty and limitless resources, untouched by human hands...but not untouched, as the unsuspecting colonists soon discovered. Now marooned on a planet infested with the deadliest Alien species ever encountered, the colonists learn firsthand the Law of the adapt or become extinct. And a little helping hand couldn't hurt, inexplicably provided by the selfsame Predators who destroyed the colonists' ship and made them prisoners in paradise. Are these extraterrestrial hunters actually showing sympathy for the humans' plight, or do they have something even more monstrous in mind?
96 pages, Paperback
First published April 23, 2008
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April 13, 2018
Hey Alien Vs. Predator! When did you get moved to the kiddie section?!
Following an introduction befitting of a true pseudo-intellectual, puerile art decks out this mediocre tale of Alien Vs. Predator in a galaxy far, far away™. (But certainly not a long, long, time ago™)
Initially, I surprised by the intrinsic banality until my aged eyes ran across the credit list. Sure enough, our good friend, the unabashedly dumb Mike Kennedy showed up. The same turd who made that atrocious Aeon Flux comic, was the architect for this one. I heaved a sigh of disappointment before strapping my seatbelt in for the inevitably awful ride that Alien Vs. Predator: Civilized Beasts would be.
Everything reeks crappiness about this comic. From the hackneyed dialogue to the even more beat to death set-up, this was more stale than a loaf of bread left out in the air for a month. Instead of a delicious panoply of croutons, a moldy, fungi-ridden mess is the result.
With a bizarrely inverted proportion of dialogue to illustrations, Kennedy’s offering feels more like a picture book than anything. Featuring a 60-40 ratio of images to words, over of the half the story amounts to vacuous action and gooey pictures. In all fairness, this isn’t all too different from most of the most liked reviews on GoodReads (sans the gifs) but, I expected far more from this comic.
Anyways the question remains. What are we left with? A steaming pile of gunk that has been regurgitated over and over again. While the Emperor Penguin performs this biological ritual to nourish its young, Kennedy’s illustrative expectoration has even less the nutrition of a bowl of ramen with a shittier taste to match.
Two Thumbs Down!
Following an introduction befitting of a true pseudo-intellectual, puerile art decks out this mediocre tale of Alien Vs. Predator in a galaxy far, far away™. (But certainly not a long, long, time ago™)
Initially, I surprised by the intrinsic banality until my aged eyes ran across the credit list. Sure enough, our good friend, the unabashedly dumb Mike Kennedy showed up. The same turd who made that atrocious Aeon Flux comic, was the architect for this one. I heaved a sigh of disappointment before strapping my seatbelt in for the inevitably awful ride that Alien Vs. Predator: Civilized Beasts would be.
Everything reeks crappiness about this comic. From the hackneyed dialogue to the even more beat to death set-up, this was more stale than a loaf of bread left out in the air for a month. Instead of a delicious panoply of croutons, a moldy, fungi-ridden mess is the result.
With a bizarrely inverted proportion of dialogue to illustrations, Kennedy’s offering feels more like a picture book than anything. Featuring a 60-40 ratio of images to words, over of the half the story amounts to vacuous action and gooey pictures. In all fairness, this isn’t all too different from most of the most liked reviews on GoodReads (sans the gifs) but, I expected far more from this comic.
Anyways the question remains. What are we left with? A steaming pile of gunk that has been regurgitated over and over again. While the Emperor Penguin performs this biological ritual to nourish its young, Kennedy’s illustrative expectoration has even less the nutrition of a bowl of ramen with a shittier taste to match.
Two Thumbs Down!
August 18, 2021
Another story that 'ties in' with the AVP movie... vaguely.
A slight improvement over the previous book in that it does something more original in the storytelling department.
It's still a bit meh though.
Artwork is okay, but nothing special..
A slight improvement over the previous book in that it does something more original in the storytelling department.
It's still a bit meh though.
Artwork is okay, but nothing special..
February 17, 2018
Another addition to my Alien and Predator collection. It was an entertaining read and fit in well to the AVP universe.
October 28, 2020
The art is very simplistic and plain. The story has gaps in it and basic.
February 23, 2021
I mean, I liked it well enough, but it could certainly have been better. Volume 2 may have some more development, but I don't know that I'll be reading it.
Update 03Jan21: Turns out I had forgotten that I'd read this already and picked it up for this morning's read. I pretty much stand by everything said in 2015. It's a perfectly serviceable Alien vs. Predator story. The one exception is that I guess if they do ever make a follow-up it does seem likely that I'll read it because obviously I pick up Alien vs. Predator stories to read instinctively enough that even re-reads aren't off the table.
Merged review:
I mean, I liked it well enough, but it could certainly have been better. Volume 2 may have some more development, but I don't know that I'll be reading it.
Update 03Jan21: Turns out I had forgotten that I'd read this already and picked it up for this morning's read. I pretty much stand by everything said in 2015. It's a perfectly serviceable Alien vs. Predator story. The one exception is that I guess if they do ever make a follow-up it does seem likely that I'll read it because obviously I pick up Alien vs. Predator stories to read instinctively enough that even re-reads aren't off the table.
Update 03Jan21: Turns out I had forgotten that I'd read this already and picked it up for this morning's read. I pretty much stand by everything said in 2015. It's a perfectly serviceable Alien vs. Predator story. The one exception is that I guess if they do ever make a follow-up it does seem likely that I'll read it because obviously I pick up Alien vs. Predator stories to read instinctively enough that even re-reads aren't off the table.
Merged review:
I mean, I liked it well enough, but it could certainly have been better. Volume 2 may have some more development, but I don't know that I'll be reading it.
Update 03Jan21: Turns out I had forgotten that I'd read this already and picked it up for this morning's read. I pretty much stand by everything said in 2015. It's a perfectly serviceable Alien vs. Predator story. The one exception is that I guess if they do ever make a follow-up it does seem likely that I'll read it because obviously I pick up Alien vs. Predator stories to read instinctively enough that even re-reads aren't off the table.
October 11, 2016
Nice follow up to AvP: Thrill of the Hunt.
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