Modern family: Addition

Interconnected interests

A lot of preparation led up to the release of Predator. It has 30 issues jam-packed in Volume Trilogy that explores the classic Predator after all.

Fortunately, me and my comic-making team have been hard at work to make it happen.

They had to make use of a lot of soldier drama and brotherhood to make the story compelling whilst the one-hunter show of the hunting Yautja had to be pristine and terrifyingly effective.

It was a matter of finding the right balance on whose perspective the story could be told and also the grim representation of how the hunters are feeling as they felt themselves on the brink of dying.

The tough army men found that they weren't the top of the top species in the Earth food chain as just one lone Predator gave them the wake-up call of their life.

A lot of coloring work also needed perfection as the Predator's invisible state and mostly dark areas that he would hunt on would always require the right amount of balance with dark and bright tones.

The team even dedicated quite a lot of panels to show how the Predator morphs his visible form from invisibility and back.

In the end, their efforts paid off quite well with the October being the Predator month where anyone looking to enjoy their spook month was buying the Predator: Slaughterous Hunt Volume Book trilogy.

A direct-to-Volume Book strategy just fits perfectly for a "monster" alien story whose only goal is to hunt and follow the Yautja honor.

The ones to follow would also follow the same semi-one shot and graphic novel-esque direction as well to expand much on the Predator lore.

Predator, from the point forward, would not be an overarching and connected story but would employ separate narratives that would only enforce on what the Yautja are and the life they live.

I could propose it to be a semi-documentary type of storytelling but with all the gritty goodness that one would expect.
I'm trying to lull horror and Dunphy fans into a Halloweenian tradition after all and what better way to do that than make it a specified annual release.

As they bought the 3 Volume Books now, it sure is a likely chance that they would be buying more in the future.

My Volume Book incremental money farming ambition has essentially moved forward into quite a few steps with just the scheduled this future month  release plans.

Not to mention all the other horror-related comic books that I would copy and expand the diverse selections that they could choose from.

There is no doubt that horror is a niche in the niche industry but it is still a demographic that exist and could be grown.

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With being 'grown' and growth, the sales of the Predator Volume Books would probably peak just before month ends.

But it came as surprise to the people in the industry when the final buzz of the last week of this month came not from the terror-popular freak face but from the already-peaked law enforcement cyborg.

Due to horror zeal ignited by previous title, RoboCop have had an insurgence with its single-issue sales soaring high and Dunphy Comics upping their release quota to 1 million.

I got some inspiration when I copied the mechanical cop and the alien hunter. Comic book store owners requested more copies and Dunphy Comics had no reluctance in complying with those requests.

Reprints were in order and the adaptation strategy was pulled up once again for the big crowd jump that the market experienced from just the release 3 Volume books.