Genre: Science fiction.
The first predator omnibus collects a bunch of graphic novels which were written around the first Predator movie. While it is not necessary that you see the first movie to follow these stories, it would help put some stuff in context. The first three stories, which actually comprise the bulk of the book (some 300 out of the 400 page book), star the brother of the main character of the first movie.
The writing in this book varies quite a bit. The first 3 stories has some cringe inducing dialogue. This is mainly because the writers try very hard to give the book a Hollywood action movie vibe. Considering that these comics were created in the 80's and 90's, what you have is 80's action movie level of dialogue. Not good.
The last 4 shorter stories have serviceable writing. The final story however is pretty muddled with no explanations given for something that occurs in different era's of time.
The plot of all the stories is poor. It basically boils down to, Predator comes, humans and predator fight, The end.
The art all through the book is very good. However the art cannot rescue this book from the poor writing and non existent plot.
Rating: 2 / 5. Below average. Only rabid predator fans would enjoy this book.
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