If Disney wants a sequel to Prey, Marvel Comics knows how to do it

Predator’s strength is its repeatability. Who needs an overarching canon when all a movie needs is some fun characters, good action, and the answer to a question like “How would a Roman legion react to a Predator attack?” From such humble questions come instant cult classics like Prey,This pitted an aspirant Comanche warrior against an alien hunter.

But this year, writer Ed Brisson and artist Kev Walker have shown that there’s no wrong time period for a Predator story, not even the future.

Brisson and Walker’s PredatorThe comic’s sixth issue has ended, which I find annoying. Their protagonist, Theta is a single child victim of Predator attacks. In her old, sentient science vessel she cuts a path through an alien-filled galaxy, collecting Predator kills, injuries, and attempting to execute the one who killed her family.

Were there other things happening within the pages of comics we love? We’ll tell you. Welcome to Monday Funnies, Polygon’s weekly list of the books that our comics editor enjoyed this past week. It’s part society pages of superhero lives, part reading recommendations, part “look at this cool art.” There may be some spoilers. You may not have enough context. There will still be some great comics. You can also read the previous edition if you haven’t seen it yet.

A character asks Theta, an armored woman covered in Predator blood, what they do now. “There are more of them out there,” she answers. “They’re still hunting. I’m going to find them,” in Predator #6 (2023).

Normaly, the last thing I want an executive in Hollywood to remember about a comic book publishing company is not even thinking of it. Print mediaIt’s not their fault if they try to add more. But I’m making an exception for Predator The comic is (2022).

It is my sincere hope that someone at Walt Disney Corporation knows Marvel Comics’ Predator spinoff was just given to them for pennies. How would Prey look if it took place in Star Wars?

A woman sitting behind a desk reveals to a costumed teen that she has dark plans for him and his friends. That they only way to take Gotham back is to “control the next generation of freaks,” or supervillains, in Batman: Urban Legends #23 (2023).

Speaking of concepts that deserve continuation: “Arkham Academy” is currently an ongoing short in the DC anthology Batman: Urban LegendsIt’s a shame, I wish it was an ongoing program. A group of incarcerated children and sidekicks of supervillains is sent to Arkham Asylum for a new super-juvenile detention program, only to realize it’s a front. They’ve actually been trapped by the Court of Owls — Gotham’s Keep your eyes closed-style illuminati — in an attempt to create the next generation of supervillains and ensure that the chaos in the city never stops.

A police captain with goat ears and horns tells his detectives, garbed in black cloaks, to be careful with their case, so as not to piss off the royals. “this is priority one,” he continues,” Drop everything else,” as a huge minotaur wearing tiny glasses leans into his office in Black Cloak #1 (2023).

It was my #1 favorite read of the week Black CloakKelly Thompson (writer) and Meredith McClaren (artist). I’ve always got room for another hard-boiled crime story set in a fantasy world, especially one as snappy and well executed as this. (P.S.(P.S.

Miles Morales/Spider-Man and Ms. Marvel chat about how Miles helped her mosque’s congregants make friends with their mosque, which has been given life in the form of a huge fanged demon. They are sitting on a swing made of spider-webs as it flies back to Jersey City in Dark Web: Ms. Marvel #2.

Dark Reign has not been grabbing my attention, but I must admit it. And that’s the way that artists and writers are choosing to play with the really weird — and yet, storied Marvel Comics — concept of a New York City where all inanimate objects have been brought to cartoonish demonic life, like an evil version of the castle in Beauty and the Beast.

Like here, where Kamala Khan’s Jersey City mosque just grew some limbs and ran away because it was tired of listening to congregation infighting. This is both very odd and extremely good.