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Predator: Bloodshed (2026) #1-5
Predator: Bloodshed
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Expected 24 Nov 26In the near future, Earth’s fiercest fighters have gathered for an underground martial-arts tournament organized by a shadowy corporation. But all hell breaks loose when an unexpected combatant enters the an alien Predator! Now the champions are battling not just for the grand prize but also for their very lives! Can a disparate group of competitors band together in time to survive the extraterrestrial hunter?! Maybe not as more than one of the combatants is concealing deadly secrets. Who can be trusted, how can they escape and who will survive? Choose your fighter and place your bets — smart money’s on the Yautja!
Bloodshed (2026) #1-5
Bloodshed (2026) #1-5
- GenresComics
128 pages, Paperback
Expected publication November 24, 2026
About the author
Jordan Morris
33 books22 followersJordan Morris is a high school teacher and librarian. His students wanted a good novel to read. He wrote Round and Round. Jordan won the 2005 A.C.T. Writers Centre Young & Emerging Writer Mentorship with Jackie French, who taught him everything he knows about writing (and everything he didn't know about writing.) A quarterfinalist in the 2012 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Competition, Jordan has been published in the occasional magazine and anthology, and wrote the sold-out Noir Revue for the Spiegeltent in the Old Parliament House rose gardens for Canberra's Centenary. In a previous life he ran a boutique hotel for writers and artists. He hopes that in at least one other past life he was a dinosaur.
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July 5, 2026How? Got the signed copies in from ... Golden Apple Comics? I'm a big Jordan Morris fan from his podcasts to his comics.
What? In the future, a predator crashes an illegal fighting arena hosted by some gross rich people. We get to meet some of the fighters (from their pre-fight interviews) and we see how they either bond or fight even before the predator shows up.
Yeah, so? I think you could -- and maybe should! -- read this as fun, popcorn entertainment: which humans survive the horror of the predator and how gnarly will it get? (That's kind of the question of all the Predator movies and I've been really liking the last few, the Dan Trachtenberg ones.)
But... you could also look at this as a question of what people fight for: the Yautja, of course, fights for... wait, what? I was going to say "sport" but it's also ... self-expression? Self-actualization? They fight to prove they can win.
And of course some of the humans are like that too, and that's a steady tension in our main character, a guy who gave up fighting to become a family man, and who misses the singular focus of the ring. Actually, that's a lot of the human fighters: like Wes Anderson's The Phoenician Scheme, with the dueling brothers, sometimes it comes down to "who can lick who."
But the fights in the ring are just some of the fights, as we also see the security guards who are mostly fighting -- it seems -- to clear their debts, which they've incurred from betting on the fights. (As opposed to the fighters, who are sometimes clearing medical debts, and only some of those are medical debts for upgrades to keep them fighting, which again goes back to the "fighting for its own sake.")
So on one side: you fight for the thrill/to prove yourself/for the sake of fighting. And on another side, you fight because it's a job, for the money. And then, on a third side, there's the fighting for other people, the bonds of family or solidarity for whatever reason (the fighters welcoming one of the humans who worked there because he's human, one character jokingly saying that they have to stick together as the two tea drinkers there).
I mean, this goes back to the first movie, when we see a bunch of people who are -- mostly -- trying to stick together and save each other. It seems like, in the Predator universe and in this comic, saving other people is probably the only way to save yourself.
What? In the future, a predator crashes an illegal fighting arena hosted by some gross rich people. We get to meet some of the fighters (from their pre-fight interviews) and we see how they either bond or fight even before the predator shows up.
Yeah, so? I think you could -- and maybe should! -- read this as fun, popcorn entertainment: which humans survive the horror of the predator and how gnarly will it get? (That's kind of the question of all the Predator movies and I've been really liking the last few, the Dan Trachtenberg ones.)
But... you could also look at this as a question of what people fight for: the Yautja, of course, fights for... wait, what? I was going to say "sport" but it's also ... self-expression? Self-actualization? They fight to prove they can win.
And of course some of the humans are like that too, and that's a steady tension in our main character, a guy who gave up fighting to become a family man, and who misses the singular focus of the ring. Actually, that's a lot of the human fighters: like Wes Anderson's The Phoenician Scheme, with the dueling brothers, sometimes it comes down to "who can lick who."
But the fights in the ring are just some of the fights, as we also see the security guards who are mostly fighting -- it seems -- to clear their debts, which they've incurred from betting on the fights. (As opposed to the fighters, who are sometimes clearing medical debts, and only some of those are medical debts for upgrades to keep them fighting, which again goes back to the "fighting for its own sake.")
So on one side: you fight for the thrill/to prove yourself/for the sake of fighting. And on another side, you fight because it's a job, for the money. And then, on a third side, there's the fighting for other people, the bonds of family or solidarity for whatever reason (the fighters welcoming one of the humans who worked there because he's human, one character jokingly saying that they have to stick together as the two tea drinkers there).
I mean, this goes back to the first movie, when we see a bunch of people who are -- mostly -- trying to stick together and save each other. It seems like, in the Predator universe and in this comic, saving other people is probably the only way to save yourself.
Review of advance copy
The cybernetic subplot was kind of unnecessary, but the story itself was entertaining. Monster vs. MMA fighters - what's not to like?
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