I thought this was a rather silly idea and it would have been better to just write about someone else, which is why I think the way Predator 2 turned out was much better.
It was pretty clear he wanted to write about Schwarzenegger and just wasn't allowed to. However, rather than being on a special forces rescue team, he is a New York cop. Since I'm sure Dark Horse wasn't allowed to use Dutch originally, Verheiden created, basically, his twin.
Now, it's been no secret that Verheiden's comics clearly influenced the ideas behind Predator 2, so if you're reading this book well after Predator 2 and thinking Nathan Archer is quite unoriginal, it's quite a bit the other way around. It made the more ridiculous elements flow a lot better. In some ways it was a bit ridiculous, but Nathan Archer did an incredible job fleshing out the story. While I thought Verheiden's original ideas for Aliens wound up getting a little ridiculous, I think his work on the first Predator comics had some really stellar ideas. Predator novels that have been released, this Predator novel is not an original work, instead it is based on the first comic book series from the 1989 written by Mark Verheiden: Predator: Concrete Jungle.
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