If Disney wants a Prey sequel, Marvel Comics knows how to do it

The replayability of the Predator franchise is its true strength. Who needs overarching canon when all a movie needs is a few fun characters, good action, and the answer to a question like, “How would a Roman legion respond to a Predator attack?” Such humble questions give rise to instant cult classics like prey, pitting an aspiring Comanche warrior against the alien hunter.

But this year writer Ed Brisson and artist Kev Walker have shown that there is no wrong time period for a Predator story, not even the future.

Brisson and Walkers predator Comic has come to an end with its sixth issue, which is annoying because I would have followed its protagonist forever: Theta, a lonely survivor of a Predator attack who carves a bloody path through an alien-filled galaxy in her antiquated, sentient galaxy Science ship, collects Predator kills and injuries in search of the one who killed her family and executes him.

What else is happening on the pages of our favorite comics? We’ll tell you. Welcome to Monday Funnies, Polygon’s weekly list of books our comics editor has enjoyed over the past week. It’s part society pages about the lives of superheroes, part recommended reading, and part look at this cool art. There may be some spoilers. There may not be enough context. But there will be great comics. (And if you missed the last issue, read this.)

A character asks Theta, an armored woman covered in Predator blood, what they're doing now.

Usually the last thing I want from a Hollywood exec is to remember that they own, let alone, a company that publishes comics print media, so they don’t try to mess with it. But I’ll make an exception for predator (2022), the comic.

I really hope someone at Walt Disney Corporation knows that the creators at Marvel Comics just gave them a rock-solid Predator spinoff for pennies on the dollar: What if Prey took place in a Star Wars-style universe?

A woman seated behind a desk reveals to a costumed teenager that she has dark plans for him and his friends. The only way to take back Gotham is to control

Speaking of concepts worthy of a sequel, Arkham Academy is currently a ongoing short in the DC Anthology Batman: Urban Legends, and Jeeze Louise, I wish this was already an ongoing one. A group of incarcerated children and henchmen of supervillains are sent to Arkham Asylum for a new incarceration program for super-teens, only to realize it’s a front. They were actually caught by the Court of Owls – Gotham’s eyes wide closed-Style Illuminati – in an attempt to create the next generation of super villains and ensure the chaos in the city never ends.

A police captain with goat ears and horns tells his black-coated detectives to handle their case with care so as not to upset the royals.

The best number 1 I read this week was Black cape by writer Kelly Thompson and artist Meredith McClaren. I always have room for another hard-nosed crime story set in a fantasy world, especially one as snappy and well executed as this one. (PS: The lagoon is full of mermaids with Gulper eel mouths.)

Miles Morales/Spider-Man and Ms. Marvel discuss how Miles helped her mosque's parishioners befriend her mosque, which came to life in the form of a giant, fanged demon. They are on a cobweb swing that flies back to Jersey City in Dark Web: Ms. Marvel #2.

I have to admit that Dark Reign doesn’t grab me, except for one thing. And in this way, artists and writers are playing with the really weird – yet fabled Marvel Comics – concept of a New York City where all inanimate objects have been brought to demonic cartoon life, like an evil version of the castle in Beauty and the Beast.

Like here, where Kamala Khan’s mosque in Jersey City just grew a few limbs and ran away, tired of listening to community power struggles. This is very strange and very good.