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Saturday, March 18, 2023
PREDECESSOR
PREDATOR (1987)
dir: John McTiernan
PREDECESSOR
MAD #276, January 1988
w: Dick DeBartolo
a: Jack Davis
Dutch Schaffer (Arnold Schwarzenegger) leads a squad that consists of Al Dillon (Carl Weathers), Sgt. McEliot (Bill Duke), Poncho Ramirez (Richard Chavez), Blain Cooper (Jesse Ventura), Billy Sole (Sonny Landham), and Rick Hawkins (Shane Black). Dutch is unaware of the mission until getting there, which is to stop a foreign invasion in Guatemala, one that a previous troop of Green Berets had been sent in for before and hadn't been heard from since. McEliot is always shaving and Cooper is always spitting chewing tobacco.
They capture one of the remaining insurgents, Anna (Elpidia Carrillo) who they don't think speaks English but may have information they need. They find that the previous soldiers there have been skinned alive. They realize they are being watched by something that only exists in plasma form and can identify them by thermal imagery. Hawkins tries to find it and gets killed un the process.
Tammy Faye Bakker was a TV host and former preacher known for excessive makeup. Jesse Ventura had been a pro-wrestler and Carl Weathers was Apollo Creed in the Rocky movies.
The monster doesn't recognize Dutch when he gets covered in mud. He realizes this and sets out to kill it. In the climax, the monster (Kevin Peter Hall) reveals itself in concrete form and during hand-to-hand combat, Dutch is able to destroy it by outsmarting it. As it's destroyed it's able to set off the self-destruct devices attached to it which will make everything within its vicinity explode. Dutch is able to be rescued from the explode at the last minute.
Comparisons are made to Rambo and Aliens, but there have been several Alien vs.Predator movies since.
The British edition had the movie on its cover with its parody of The Untouchables.
PREMEDATOR
Cracked #233, January 1988
w: Robert Loren Fleming
a: Bill Wray
The Predator is from space. There was a spaceship at the beginning of the movie, which is the only way you'd know that.
It was revealed in the movie that Dutch and Dillon had been war buddies.
Cracked briefly revisited this movie in #266. They did it along with short spoofs of Commando and Terminator, to give them an excuse to put Schwarzenegger on the cover. (Terminator 2 had come out, but their spoof of that wouldn't be ready until a couple issues later.)
Cracked briefly revisited this movie in #266. They did it along with short spoofs of Commando and Terminator, to give them an excuse to put Schwarzenegger on the cover. (Terminator 2 had come out, but their spoof of that wouldn't be ready until a couple issues later.)
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