Batman Vs Predator Part I

[zechs27.insanejournal.com]

I remember this was posted in the original Scans Daily. Though it was lost due to photobucket account issues if I recall right. A good thing I have the issues myself (finally found #1 and #2) this past summer. So now I'm bringing this puppy back given how awesome this crossover was. Honestly this comic just feels like a frigging movie the entire time I read it. The comics where huge at the time over forty pages. So I think this is the required amount. If not mods warn me and I'll remove it to the proper limit.

The story opens with a boxing match. All of Gotham's Elite are there (both regular and criminal elite). On the other end of town though someone else is listening in:





Predator then take's out the winner of the match in awesome style, though of course spares the woman he was with at the time (but kills the two guards who where watching him). Naturally the brutal triple murder attracts the attention of Gotham's great defender.




Bats then goes to interogate the other opponent of the match, Brodin, given he was the only one who most to gain from this. A fight erupts with Brodin's boxing friends and Batman who hands them their butts. After warning Brodin that he might be next, the Bat leaves. Naturally the Predator show's up and slaughters mostly everyone save but one off screen in hand to hand style.

When word hits Batman he travels back to the scene of the crime:





With this litteral puzzle in his face, Bruce tries to put the pieces together on with the unsual circumstances of death. He come's to the conclusion the killer has a bizarre code of honor. Using the only clue he got from above, Bruce realizes the killer is at a junk yard and possibly might show at a meeting being a crime lord and the boxing promoter. So he sends Alfred to investigate the former and watches over the meeting.

It pays off.



Alas to say though Bats couldn't save most of everyone in the room, and as shown above before he can confront the killer he's removed from the field by the shotgun blast and escapes via that exit above.

Still, Bruce gets the location where the killer's lair is at via Alfred and decides to pay this slasher a visit.




Though tagged by the disk the Predator threw, Batman tries luring it to get buried in a ton of junk. The plan just really doesn't work out really well for him sad to say.

Comments

[thanekos.insanejournal.com]

Predator's'll fight ANYONE (http://danbooru.donmai.us/data/4385272f802d4d35358aaabb6489fe11.jpg).

[zechs27.insanejournal.com]

True but will one fight Cassandra Cain? :P

[foxhack.insanejournal.com]

I remember I had a scan of a Predator admiring a girl's panties. The girl was Sailor Moon.

I WISH I knew where that stupid scan came from. Or the name of the book. :(

[xdoop.insanejournal.com]

I found this on YTMND

[foxhack.insanejournal.com]

That's probably PART of it, yes, but the scan I saw was of the end.

[strangething.insanejournal.com]

This?

[foxhack.insanejournal.com]

Yeah, that's it! I'm pretty sure I actually posted this at one point during the old S_D days, but I didn't find the file while digging through my old archives.

[zechs27.insanejournal.com]

Damn who won't the Predator do crossovers with? Archie? Jane Austen novels?

[bluefall.insanejournal.com]

Pride & Prejudice & Predator, coming this fall.

[zechs27.insanejournal.com]

Now I'm imaginging some high society British woman trying to court a Predator who is hunting down any other suitors so he can take her as his trophy.

AHH!!!!

[strangething.insanejournal.com]

From a photoshop contest.

[sessile29.insanejournal.com]

Heh, it's weird to see classic Andy Kubert pencils outside of the X-Men.

[zippthorn.insanejournal.com]

The only part of this series that wasn't any kind of good was the armor Batman wears to fight the Predator at the end. It's so goddamn 90s.

[zechs27.insanejournal.com]

I um.. I loved the battle armor Bats wears. *blush*

[zippthorn.insanejournal.com]

I see you didn't include an image of it in your post. You are AWARE it is SHAMEFUL, your love. Naughty and WRONG. Wrong and NAUGHTY. Even on a comm such as THIS ONE, devoted to perversion and crack slashings, you keep your love SECRET for you know, YOU KNOW, it is disgusting.

FOR SHAME

For

Shame

[zechs27.insanejournal.com]

That doesn't appear till part 2 the battle armor though. SO MY LOVE FOR IT WILL SHOW!

[zippthorn.insanejournal.com]

SHAME

[zechs27.insanejournal.com]

There is no shame for my love of the 90s. Good times. Good times. Ok.. some also repressive times. But they've been repressed so no use remembering them.

Foolish Batman ...

[box_in_the_box.insanejournal.com]

... There's only one man who can catch a Predator:

Re: Foolish Batman ...

[proteus_lives.insanejournal.com]

"Would you take a seat?"

Re: Foolish Batman ...

[box_in_the_box.insanejournal.com]

I'm now imagining the Predator using his alien voice recorder to repeat that phrase during combat. :)

Re: Foolish Batman ...

[superfan1.insanejournal.com]

What a dangerous weapon....

[ladymirth.insanejournal.com]

Wow. This is GREAT. Normally, I don't have the same quibbles about Bruce the Bat-God that most people do, but I really love that Bruce is vulnerable and fallible and so very human here. It highlights his fearlessness and resolve all that much more.

I found the action sequences rather hard to follow, though.

[zechs27.insanejournal.com]

I cut some parts out alas. The only thing I had a hard time following was the shoot out at the crime lord's penthouse which Bat crashes. Everytime I read it the dude's alive until Batman arrives. When did the Pred kill him?

[proteus_lives.insanejournal.com]

I thought this was a very decent crossover.

[unknownscribler.insanejournal.com]

I love that Batman gets his arse handed to him.