![]() As writer Layman told Paste, they’re “a great way to get attention.” This isn’t the first time Layman has done an unlikely crossover his long-running creator-owned series Chew (with artist Rob Guillory) joined with fellow Image series Revival in 2014. But innovation likely isn’t the initial motivation for such mash-ups. On paper, such comics should be a clusterfuck, but in reality they often yield inventive, bizarre narratives that stretch the boundaries of the medium. The Dark Horse title, written by John Layman and illustrated by Chris Mooneyham, is further proof that corporate properties get a lot more interesting when smashed together. Predator and the new four-issue series Predator vs. ![]() But when such intra-company meet-ups run dry, the corporate overlords of Hollywood should look to an unlikely source for inspiration: crazy multi-property crossovers, such as Batman/Teenage Mutant Turtles, Transformers vs. In comic-book movies, a certain giddiness still erupts when a starry-eyed Ant-Man meets square-jawed Captain America, or when Wonder Woman interrupts the Batman/Superman bro-fest. ![]()
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