The Predator Stalks the Marvel Universe Starting with WOLVERINE VS PREDATOR This September!

By Dustin Gebel

on June 9, 2023

Marvel announces that two of their deadliest characters will cross the universe to finally face off in the pages of a new title. Wolverine and the Predator are set to track and battle the other in the upcoming Predator vs. Wolverine this September. The four issue limited series sees the alien hunter stalk Wolverine from the frozen wilderness of Canada to the underbelly of Madripoor and more.

Current Wolverine, and former Alien, scribe Ben Percy will pen the series, and is joined by a roster of artists that includes Greg Land, Andrea Di Vito, Ken Lashley, Kei Zama, and more. Each team will reveal the secret history between Wolverine and the Predator, which works to also integrate the alien warrior as part of the Marvel universe. For the debut issue, Marco Checchetto illustrates a cover playing up the icy battle between mutant and alien.

In the press release for the announcement, Percy states:

“I’m not going to say I was born to write this crossover… but sometimes the universe reveals why you were created. I am a child of the eighties. I cannot tell you how many times I watched Predator, just as I cannot tell you how many Wolverine comics I have read, because that would be like telling you how many breaths I’ve taken or cheeseburgers I’ve eaten. The mythologies of both are ingrained in me so deeply they might as well be strands of DNA or wisps of soul. The guns, claws, beef, and blood of both franchises have been stewing in my brain since 1987, when I read myself to sleep every night with a stack of Marvel comics and my friends and I used to play ‘Predator’ with Nerf guns in the woods and river near our neighborhood.”

Along with the announcement, Marvel has provided a synopsis and Checchetto’s cover for issue #1, both of which can be seen below:

THE THRILL IS THE KILL! Wolverine has lived one of the longest and most storied lives in comics history. Now witness the untold greatest battles of Logan’s life – against a Predator! One Yautja seeks the greatest prey in existence – and finds it in Weapon X. From the blood-ridden snows of the Canadian wilderness to the sword-slinging streets of Madripoor, Wolverine and a Predator break everything in their paths on their way to the ultimate victory…or glorious death.