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tags char: Batman/Bruce Wayne, char: predator, char: robin/red robin/tim drake, char: mr. freeze/victor fries, char: catwoman/selina kyle, creator: chuck dixon, publisher: dc comics, publisher: dark horse comics

Once made a promise to post this finale. I finally had the time to look over my collection and scan these. This was the final Batman crossover with the Predator, for now anyway. There was Superman and Batman vs. Aliens vs. Predator, but that was in a period I wasn't in comics. Just to give you details on the first sequel to the glorious original (which was first posted in original by someone then by me in SD 2.0).

It involved a renegade Predator seeking out Batman, who is caught between a rock and a hard place. See a mobster placed a five million bounty on the Bat and a ton of assassins came to collect. Add the Huntress, "Feds" (sort of like Gary Busey's character from Predator 2), and two other Predators sent to stop the renegade to the mix it was an alright story. I only got the first issue. From what I recall the art was the reason why I laid off it. I wasn't really too fond of the Predator look in that.

This one however I just couldn't resist. The art looked awesome and Chuck Dixon was writing it. It sounded like a winning combo. Also the book is over the usual twenty seven pages (I believe thirty-two). So that entitles me to one extra page which I shall use for #2 of this.

The story begins like so much a night in Gotham. It starts with a murder. This one of several gang members slaughtered whole-sale by TWO Predators. It doesn't take long for it to get the attention of Gotham's protector:

Tim continues to question why Bruce is all moody over this particular method:

After some more looking into how the victims where killed, Batman's fears are confirmed. A Predator has come to Gotham. However, what he doesn't know yet is that there are two this time. One's an elder teaching a rookie on hunting and prepping him for the biggest game of all. But before he can continue on the case, one of Gotham's infamous picks a bad time to rear his head:

Freeze and his goons get the money and duke it out with the police and Bats. They give the later the slip and total the Batmobile. However they don't escape the two Predators:

#2 picks up with Bullock going over the scene in captions as Freeze watches his henchmen get mutilated.

Meanwhile Bats pays a visit to the only other man who's survived a visit with a Predator, TWICE, Jim Gordon.

SO BUSTED. Again Bruce tells Tim to lay off this case. Tim of course doesn't listen and pursuits another way to get the info.

Babs gives Tim more info as our detective begins to piece together that this can't be the work of one single killer if there have been similar murders like this across the globe. Freeze during all of this is still on the run IN HIS UNDIES as he forces an ice cream man to take him to a cooler location.

The Predators continue to prowl Gotham looking for something to hunt. Not surprising they find it easily:

So how does the king of prep-time deal with them this time you ask?

Bats continues to lay waste to the Predators unloading the helicopter's payload on them until he has the youngest cornered. So where's that elder Predator at?

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sherkahn

Tim, Tim, Tim. When will you learn when Batman doesn't want you to listen, it's for a good reason. you might up facing Xenomorphs, Yautjas in hunting mode or him making out with some girl.

Leave it alone Tim. It's for your own good.

crinos

You know, its about time the Preds start going after the Bat villains. I haven't read the stories before, but I presume since the only person to survive a fight with them is Gotham is Gordon, they didn't run into any of the Bat Rogues.

I'd love to see these things try and take on the Joker.