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Robert Rodriguez Gets Fans Ready For ‘Predators’ With A 4 Issue Weekly Prequel This June!
Let the marketing campaign begin! Just in time for the July 7th release date of his upcoming reboot of the ‘PREDATORS’ franchise being helmed by Nimrod Antal (“VACANCY”, “ARMORED”), it was announced that Robert Rodriguez will be teaming with Dark Horse Publishing to release a 4 part weekly prequel to the film! Inside you can find all the details on the series including the covers for all 4 issues! “Starring Adrian Brody (“THE PIANIST”, “THE JACKET”) and Topher Grace (“THAT 70s SHOW”, “SPIDERMAN 3”) “PREDATORS” follows nine humans,”Predators” of sorts, who are kidnapped and taken to an alien world which is used by the Predators as a game reserve. Now they must all fight to survive while they are hunted by a new breed of alien hunters known as Predators.”
PREDATORS #1 (JUNE 9th MSRP-$2.99)
WRITTEN BY: Marc Andreyko and David Lapham
ILLUSTRATED BY: Guilherme Balbi and Gabriel Guzman
INKS BY: Jose Verissimo and Mariano Talbo
COLORS BY: Garry Henderson and Michael Atiyeh
COVERS BY: Paul Lee.
“A team of Navy Seals is in the midst of a firefight when it suddenly goes dark. They awake to find themselves in a new and more deadly environment, stalked by a strange enemy. One by one these special-ops officers are killed by an unseen threat, until only one man remains. All alone in a strange world, he must do what he knows best survive against all odds.
Robert Rodriguez teams with Dark Horse for an action-packed weekly prequel to his forthcoming Predators film!”
PREDATORS #2 (JUNE 16th MSRP-$2.99)
WRITTEN BY: Marc Andreyko and David Lapham
ILLUSTRATED BY: Guilherme Balbi and Gabriel Guzman
INKS BY: Jose Verissimo and Mariano Talbo
COLORS BY: Garry Henderson and Michael Atiyeh
COVERS BY: Paul Lee.
“The lone Navy Seal finds himself in an uneasy alliance when he discovers another survivor on the planet but he also learns that here humans are prey, transplanted from Earth to this alien jungle, to be hunted for sport.”
PREDATORS #3 (JUNE 23rd MSRP-$2.99)
WRITTEN BY: Marc Andreyko and David Lapham
ILLUSTRATED BY: Guilherme Balbi and Gabriel Guzman
INKS BY: Jose Verissimo and Mariano Talbo
COLORS BY: Garry Henderson and Michael Atiyeh
COVERS BY: Paul Lee.
“The human alliance strains under the threat of the vicious Predators, an elaborate system of traps, and the impossibility of escape, until the men are locked in their own game of cat and mouse against each other. David Lapham writes backups featuring Adrien Brody’s cold-blooded killer from the film!”
PREDATORS #4 (JUNE 30th MSRP-$2.99)
WRITTEN BY: Marc Andreyko and David Lapham
ILLUSTRATED BY: Guilherme Balbi and Gabriel Guzman
INKS BY: Jose Verissimo and Mariano Talbo
COLORS BY: Garry Henderson and Michael Atiyeh
COVERS BY: Paul Lee.
“Traps are set off and new Predators enter the fray in the blood-drenched conclusion: the set-up for Robert Rodriguez’s reboot of the Predator film series! Next month the story continues in the official movie adaptation written by Paul Tobin, and the film’s sequel, written by David Lapham!”
Comics
‘You’ll Never Leave This Place Alive’ – IDW Dark’s Next Horror Comic Will Make You Question Reality
Five friends. Four houses. One perfect life. Bloody Disgusting is excited to exclusively announce You’ll Never Leave This Place Alive, a brand new horror comic from IDW Dark.
From Eisner-Nominated writers Jackson Lanzing and Collin Kelly, and rising horror artist Heather Vaughan, You’ll Never Leave This Place Alive is described as a “paranoia-laced, socially-conscious, horror mystery that will leave you questioning reality, and reveal that this crafted world is more of a nightmare than the idealistic dream they were expecting.”
Phoebe Joplin has never questioned the world her parents built: a secluded community where she and her friends were raised to be smarter, stronger, and better than anyone else. No distractions. No dangers. No secrets. Until the night of their graduation.
When one of them dies under impossible circumstances, Phee starts to pull at the edges of her perfect life—and what she finds is something far more terrifying than she ever imagined.
Because this place isn’t a sanctuary. It’s a cage. And no one who discovers the truth ever leaves it alive.
Collin Kelly & Jackson Lanzing (Batman – One Bad Day: Clayface, Star Trek: The Last Starship) co-write the upcoming IDW Dark horror comic, featuring art by Heather Vaughan.
Jackson Lanzing said in a statement to Bloody Disgusting, “You’ll Never Leave This Place Alive is in many ways a spiritual successor to our last creator-owned horror, The Principles of Necromancy – a dive into the promise and consequence of playing god with the blood of innocents. But the Hivemind book this reminds me of most is Clayface: One Bad Day. This is a deeply human story with intensely raw emotions – five best friends and their five mysterious parents, tearing one another apart for the promise of some impossible glory that’s waiting just beyond their darkest actions. We’re thrilled to be bringing this story to life with our long-time partner in crime, editor Heather Antos, at IDW Dark – and we’re particularly excited to give our Clayface fans a new, brutal and emotional horror made just for them.”
Adds Collin Kelly, “We’re deconstructing a feeling that seems universal these days; our elders have a death grip on their power, without any intention of giving it up to the generations that come next. YNLTPA is about growing up with the limitless potential of the future… and realizing how much it’s a lie we’ve been fed to keep us under the yoke of the past. Bringing this brutal experience to life is our artist and co-creator, Heather Vaughan, who brings an incredible amount of humanity to our cast. But it’s in our youthful leads that Heather’s art really shines – you are going to fall in love with these young people, even as they go through the worst experience of their lives. What we’ve all crafted together is going to be tragic, painful, but above all else, sincere – with a future so uncertain, there’s only one thing we can trust: you’ll never leave this place alive.”
“Some horror stories are about monsters in the dark. YNLTPA is about realizing the monsters raised you,” previews Senior Group Editor Heather Antos. “Working with Jackson Lanzing and Collin Kelly on this series has been a dream in the darkest possible way. They’ve built a story that’s layered, brutal, and deeply emotional, and every issue gives artist Heather Vaughan opportunities to push the art into places that feel both haunting and deeply personal. Some horror comics will keep you up at night…this is one that will stick with you for years to come.”
The first issue of You’ll Never Leave This Place Alive goes on sale October 14, 2026! Make sure to pre-order at your local comic shop by September to guarantee a copy.
Exclusively check out the various covers for Issue #1 down below.
IDW Publishing’s horror imprint IDW DARK features comics like A Quiet Place: Storm Warning, Smile: For the Camera, The Exorcism at 1600 Penn, Beneath The Trees Where Nobody Sees, The Twilight Zone, Event Horizon: Dark Descent & Event Horizon: Inferno, and more.
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