“Predators” Comic Book Announced; “Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions” Announced; Dick Giordano Dies.

Dark Horse has announced that they are working on a new Predator limited series, entitled Predators. It’s a prequel to the film of the same name and based on the Predator franchise, started in 1987 with the feature film Predator, directed by John McTiernan and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. The limited series will last for 4 issues, and will be released on a weekly basis. The comic book will deal with a team of Navy Seals who are slowly being hunted down by a “strange enemy” (I wonder who that is), until only one man survives. He then must survive the Predator’s attacks. On another note, 20th Century Fox has released a two-minute trailer for the Predators. I just happen to be a master of html, so I’ve included the trailer below for your viewing pleasure:

In other news, a new Spider-Man video-game has been announced: Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions. The game will be released on the following platforms: Xbox 360, Playstation 3, Nintendo Ds, and Wii. The game (to the joy of die-hard Spidey fans) will feature four different dimensions that you play in, each with their own version of Spider-Man. Marvel has decided to keep us in the dark, and has only released two of the four Spider-Men you can play as: The Amazing Spider-Man, the version that we are most familiar with, and Spider-Man Noir, based on the limited series by David Hine, Fabrice Sapolsky, and Carmine Di Giandomenico. Spider-Man Noir is a retelling of the Spider-Man story, but set in the 1930s and drawing elements from film noir. This video game comes as a joy to us Spider-Man fans as Marvel has finally realized the potential of using their diverse number of universes. This dream was realized back in 2005 with the mediocre and little different Ultimate Spider-Man video game, but has only been fully realized now. Each Spider-Man will feature different combat systems. As far as I know, The Amazing Spider-Man will feature more intense combat whilst Spider-Man Noir will feature more stealth-based action. Additionally, a trailer has been released, which I have included below. But wait, there’s more! If you pre-order the game through the official website, you get four additional costumes- cosmic versions of the four that you already get.

Last, but definitely not least, we present some sad news. Legendary comic-book artist and editor Dick Giordano died on March 27th. Pat Bastienne, a close friend of Dick’s, has stated that the death is a result of “complications of treatment of leukemia”. He died on Saturday at the Memorial Medical Center at Daytona Beach, Florida. Giordano oversaw the creation of such classic works as Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, and Watchmen, which has been recently been adapted to film by Zack Snyder. He is most famous for working on the monthly Batman series with Neal Adams and for bringing many of the Charlton Comics characters over to DC. He will be missed.