Predator: Blood Feud was a four-part story published by Dark Horse Comics in its self-titled anthology series Dark Horse Comics #4-7, from Nov. 1992-Feb. 1993.

The story was written by Neal Barrett, Jr. and illustrated by Leo Duranona. The first issue featured a cover by Duranona. It was edited by Jerry Prosser.

Blood Feud was collected for the first time in Predator Omnibus: Volume 1 in August 2007.

In the Predator comics line, Predator: Blood Feud was followed closely by Predator: Race War (Feb.-Oct. 1993).

PlotEdit

An age-old Predator returns to modern day Japan to hunt a blind martial arts instructor--the descendant of an adversary it faced in feudal Japan centuries earlier.

Behind the ScenesEdit

The issues of Dark Horse Comics featuring Blood Feud also contained the three-part prologue to Predator: Race War (which were later collected as Predator: Race War #0), so the two stories could said to have been published concurrently.

The term "blood fued" is conspiculously mentioned by Royce, the main protagonist of the 2010 film Predators, perhaps as an homage to the story.

Predators' other possible homage to Blood Feud could be the character of Hanzo, a modern day Japanese man who wields a Samuari-sword in a duel against a Predator, just like the comic's main character Juta Tanaka.

Tanaka, a blind swordsman, is also clearly a reference to the popular Japanese motiff of the blind martial artists as best exemplified by the popular Samurai-movie character Zato Ichi.

See AlsoEdit

Dark Horse Comics

Predator (Comics Series)

Dark Horse Comics (series)

Predators (film)