Predator: Badlands - Get an Exclusive Preview of Marvel's Official Prequel to the New Movie

Dan Trachtenberg's Predator: Badlands has conscionable deed theaters, but if you lone ticker the film, you're lone getting portion of the story. That's due to the fact that Marvel is acceptable to merchandise Predator: Badlands #1, the authoritative prequel that reveals much astir the past of Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi's young Yautja huntsman Dek.

Ahead of the comic's merchandise adjacent week, IGN tin exclusively debut a caller preview of Predator: Badlands #1. Check it retired successful the slideshow assemblage below:

Predator: Badlands #1 is written by Ethan Sacks (Star Wars: Bounty Hunters) and drawn by Elvin Ching (The Woodsman), with a main screen by Juan Ferreyra and a variant screen by CAFU. Trachtenberg consulted connected the book's storyline to marque definite it aligns with the crippled of the film.

Here's Marvel's authoritative statement of Predator: Badlands #1:

The authoritative prequel, done successful collaboration with manager Dan Trachtenberg, to the new, eagerly anticipated film, PREDATOR: BADLANDS, is here! A young Yautja warrior is fixed a seemingly elemental task by his father: Retrieve a portion of exertion from a derelict spaceship that crashed years ago. Inside, however, an past and deadly menace lies successful wait. Now the Predator volition go the prey…

"Our communicative straight ties into Dek's travel successful the film, and I approached it successful a akin mode to however I approached Old Man Hawkeye, the prequel to Old Man Logan," Sacks tells IGN. "I wanted the communicative to consciousness similar a unsocial and absorbing puzzle portion that could descent close successful and link seamlessly with the beloved original."

Predator: Badlands #1 volition beryllium released connected November 12, 2025. You tin preorder a transcript astatine your section comic shop.

Clint gage gave the movie an 8 successful IGN's Predator: Badlands review, writing, "Dan Trachtenberg is heading successful an absorbing absorption with this franchise and helium gets bonus points for that. The Predator arsenic a mysterious execution monster is getting immoderate of his backstory filled in, and that’s not needfully a atrocious thing. Badlands, successful shifting the position to a Yautja main character, really highlights what’s been large astir this franchise successful its amended moments. Dek and Thia are an unexpectedly amusive pairing that bring a caller vigor to the franchise and an altogether antithetic benignant of hunt. It mightiness not beryllium pulling the skull and spine retired of america and screaming successful bloody victory, but it gets close."

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