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Alien Loves Predator
File:AlienLovesPredator.jpg
Abe (l.) and Preston (r.) of Alien Loves Predator
Author(s)Bernie Hou
Websitehttp://www.alienlovespredator.com/
Current status/scheduleCurrently running
Launch date2004 (archive)
Genre(s)Comedy, New York City

Alien Loves Predator (ALP to fans) is a webcomic written by Bernie Hou. It spoofs the Alien vs. Predator franchise. Reversing the adversarial relationship depicted in the comics, games, books and movies, ALP presents an Alien (named Abe) and a Predator (named Preston) as friends and roommates in modern-day New York City.[1][2]

The first issue of ALP was released in 2004. On August 28, 2008, the author of the strip announced that Alien Loves Predator would be updated sporadically, abandoning its regular weekly format. After a short run of a different webcomic, If You See Something, on November 21, 2008, Bernie Hou announced that he would once again be running the strip and updating it every Tuesday.

Style

The artwork of ALP is composed by juxtaposing photos of real-life action figures into backgrounds also primarily generated from photos. This style has alternately been called photocollage, photocomics or fumetti. A reviewer has stated that ALP "sets the bar for this art style."[5]

ALP's humor is often based on absurdism and non sequiturs. After all, although the New York City of the strip seems virtually identical to the one we know in real life, the humans are not concerned by the fact that an Alien and a Predator live among them. Abe and Preston speak English and treat each other just as human friends do, and the specific mythology of the Alien and Predator franchises is not a primary focus.

However, along with the surrealist humor of seeing alien races act just like people, the strip simultaneously presents an observational brand of humor. Abe and Preston often are depicted going through the same frustrations that real-life modern-day New Yorkers encounter as they try to do such things as rent apartments, eat out at restaurants, and ride the subway. Transformers screenwriter John Rogers has compared ALP to Seinfeld in this respect.[3]

Recognition

ALP was a finalist for a Web Cartoonists' Choice Award for outstanding photographic comic in 2008[4].

Bernie Hou has been a featured guest at the ICON and UberCon comic conventions[5][6] and has been interviewed by Wizard magazine[2]. ALP received favorable mention in the March/April 2005 issue of Creative Screenwriting magazine, and the February 2006 issue of Stuff magazine.Media:ALPinStuff.jpg

Notes

  1. ^ Ginger Meyerson, Sequential Tart [1]
  2. ^ a b Robert Taylor, Mingling Species: Bernie Hou Q&A, Wizard magazine, July 10, 2006
  3. ^ [2]
  4. ^ "The Web Cartoonists' Choice Awards—2008 List of Winners & Finalists". Web Cartoonists' Choice Awards Committee. 2008-03-08. Retrieved 2009-03-08.
  5. ^ [3]
  6. ^ [4]
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