Dark Horse and Universal Sign Deal

sound like a sweet deal.

Does DARK HORSE still have rights to Alien, Predator and Alien Vs. Predator comics? How will that work? Is universal making a push at that franchise or franchises?

Good question, Sony. And let's not forget that Dark Horse has been putting out an excellent Conan for about 4 years now. I agree, this is a great deal for both parties. Dark Horse has been willing to take risks with different types of titles while Marvel and DC rest on the laurels. Granted they built a bit of their name on every different Star Wars comic imaginable but they've been moving forward ever since.

Dark Horse may only have the rights to publish AvP and Conan comics. Being other entity's IPs (at least thats my assumption), Dark Horse might not have the right to deal for those movies' rights.

How about a Buffy film? Season 8 from DH has been fantastic. Also what ever happened to those proposed Angel tv movies? Could this deal spark Whedon to possibly revist the buffyverse on film? I know i'd like to see it :)
I know there is rights issues and all that involved, but we can hope.

I think you're right Necronomitron. I'm sure they just have a licensing deal with those properties. Otherwise we'd be seeing a crap load of Star Wars related stuff not done by George Lucas. Wait a minute.....that doesn't sound half bad.

This is sweet. What they need to do is adapt Blade of the Immortal, Hard Boiled, and Give Me Liberty. With the exception of Hard Boiled, I can totally see BOTI and GML as a franchise run. Then move up to Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot for the kiddies.

This is only a distribution deal with DHE, and doesn't really mean much at all.

EVERYTHING that people have listed so far is either licensed or creator owned, and not a part of the deal. It only covers properties actually created and owned by Dark Horse exclusively, not stuff they publish. They'd have to deal with Frank Miller in order to produce his works, Hiroaki Samura for his, and so on.

On it's own, Dark Horse owns pretty much squat when it comes to it's 'big' titles, and the only reason that Hellboy's a part of this is that Mignola and DHE already have a very amicable production agreement.

If Dark Horse was in charge of the Alien/Predator franchises I think we'd be in infinitely better shape. The comics from Dark Horse were better than anything from either franchise in over a decade. Earth War was awesome. Ripley made a better android than a clone.