Dark Horse Comic review: Predator Big Game

Right so its Yautja month I'll be reviewing some of Dark horse awesome Predator comic's starting with Big Game.  While there are others with far more impressive Art styles and stories Big Game captures the feel and spirit of the Predator movies.

Set in small town of Cole New Mexico a community near an army base a Predator Craft lands and its pilot decides to bag some game. A local grunt Enoch Nakai is embroiled in a battle of wits with the savage Yautja hunter and when his army training fails he puts his skills as a Indian Brave into use to tackle the hunter from the stars.

The art work buy Evan Dorkin isnt great but isnt bad either. The Predator looks awesome and the landscape  epic but the humans could have been drawn much better. John Arcudi's story while nothing groundbreaking is primal and tense and he does however make Enoch a really fleshed out character with a rich backstory which lends its self to the conflict. The story's climax is pure raw testosterone driven and kinda hints in a cheeky way what might have happened if Billy not Dutch survived to duke it out with the predator.


I was lucky and came across an early collected edition and two singles with the awesome Chris Warner covers. You can also find this story in the Predator Omnibus volume Two. Pick it up if you can because it is one of the more action packed and well crafted Predator stories.