Predators, Vol. 1

by Dave West (Editor), Colin Mathieson (Editor)

Cover Artist: Kev Mullins

PREDATORS contains stories based around the PREDATORY theme, be it from the perspective of the PREDATOR or the PREY.

Dead and Curried - Martin Hayes, Lonny Chant
Luftwaffe 46 - Michael Burness, Steven Howard
Hell No, Kitty - Andy Forber
A Shepherd Tends His Flock - Douglas Noble
Welcome To The Jungle - Paul Stafford, Craig Shields, Lee Lightfoot
Friends Reunited - Dave West
The Gladiator - Jon Ayre, Martin Flink
Sharks Swim in Holy Water - Douglas Noble
Steppin' Razor - Will Kirkby
Predators/Prey 1 - David Baillie
First Kill - Steve Tanner, Andy Dodd
Generations - Dave West
The Beast Within - Mark Clapham, Kenny Jeffery
A Good Day - Steve White, James McKay, Benjamin Dickson
Predators/Prey 2 - David Baillie
Top of the Food Chain Darren Ellis, Roland Bird
Always Chased - Martin Fisher, Javier Reyes
Predators/Prey 3 - David Baillie
The Exterminator - David Hailwood, Tony Suleri
Mise En Scene - Zakarya Anwar, Jay Rainford-Nash
Just Like You - Lee Robson, Bryan Coyle
Spider - Alexi Conman, Crispian Woolford
The Mummy Returns - Dave West
Clean - Paul L Mathews, Pedro Lopez
In The Old Fashioned Way - Jonathan Baylis, David Beyer Jr.
The Evil One - Kevin Mullins
Greedy Fish - Tony Hitchman, Leonie O'Moore
Madame Mothra's Geno Pets - Valentin Lerena, Pablo Lizalde
The Lure - Gary Crutchley
Last Suppers - Jay Eales
The Drill Morgan Pielli, Jon-Mikel Gates
And we'll lick the platter clean - Natalie Sandells
Earth to Earth Stephen Michael Lowe, Marleen Lowe
Z-Girl and the 4 Tigers: Suffer The Little Children - Jeff Marsick, Kirk Manley
Skin Deep - Mo Ali, Andy Bloor

GALLERY
Featuring art by Mo Ali, Andy Bloor and Steve Howard, Federico Combi, Indio, Kirk Manley, James McKay, Debbie Ogden, Caroline Parkinson and Matthew Zucker.

192 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2011

Reviews

[Alex Murphy · Rating 2 out of 5]

Truth be told I brought this, as I was flicking through it at a comic con, I saw a story with dinosaurs in it, which immediately meant I had to get it. The premise is a bunch of short comic stories, none more than 8 pages, many just one or two pages, all based around predators. This takes various paths; game hunters, snipers, tigers, serial killers, Spitfire pilots, vampire and werewolves. Ceratosaurus (the reason I got it), zombie soldiers and a mismatch of others.

Overall this was just ok, none of the stories really stood out and there was 35 of them. The stories given had a wide variety, in situations (as mentioned), art styles and types of story whether comedy, thriller or action etc. While some were better than others, others were just lacking, both in story and art. The worse ones were more just simple and bland rather than bad but without the better ones the book would have really suffered.

With the mix of art and genres, it is an interesting read, but without at least a couple of really good tales, the book lacks any real punch. A book to read if at hand, but one to go looking for? No, unfortunately not.