Predator: The Hunted City

by Charles Moore

Just as the mob wars of 1947 New York begin to subside, a new wave of gang murders appears to take the turf battles to a new level of violence and brutality. While gangster Tony "Soldier Boy" Vincenzo is arrested for the killings, an enterprising freelance reporter knows that something stinks when Federal agents confiscate his film. And when Vincenzo disappears from custody, the reporter tracks him down only to find that Soldier Boy and the other mobsters are being hunted by someone—or something—not interested in turf, but in trophies!

26 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2013

Reviews

[Ill D · Rating 3 out of 5]

Tony Vincenzo is hunted by both local mob factions looking to clean house and a newly introduced extra-terrestrial beast. Gunning and stabbing across a triparte issue length, nothing can be built up too much so velocity becomes the name of the game. Moving quickly, of course the typical pieces of this period, policemen, gangster and most notably the press move across their predetermined roles across this phosphorescent chessboard. Yet devoid of the white and black contrasts of morality the lack of values to decode are just as murky as the story itself. So when the end I reached, its difficult to describe just where we have arrived.

[James DeSantis · Rating 3 out of 5]

Ay, get me a pizza pie and some predator to gooooo!

I love when the Italian Mafia can make an appearance in Predator. As an Italian myself, I know we tough guys gotta stick together and ain't no way a Predator gonna move on our turf. And so our hero hero goes head to head with one, then when he loses, brings his entire gang of boys to take out a predator.

This is dumb.

But also highly entertaining.

I think seeing the mafia in shambles over a alien monster hunting them is just too funny if nothing else. A 3 out of 5.

[✮Octjillery✮ · Rating 1 out of 5]

[My reviews are generally for me/my memory and can therefore contain spoilers. They're typically not here to provide you with a reason to read or not read something.]

Note: I read this via the first massive omnibus (on Kindle). The plan is to review each trade/mini-series/whatever as I finish them, rather than the whole omnibus or every single issue.

How many times are we going to do this same story over again with a slightly different cast? This is the third time, at least, that the premise is "X gets blamed for a massacre, but it was really a Predator." This time around, there wasn't enough time for anything to really happen with that, though.

I couldn't even really tell most of the characters apart. The only interesting thing is that the Predator goes for a journalist this time because he sees the feds keeping an eye on him, rather than a perceived warrior. Not really anything else to note.