The new Predator (an alien Yautja warrior) ally of Cornelius and Zira kills the Mutant controlled Gorilla soldiers of General Ursus.
Ursus, Doctor Zaius, Arch (the ANSA astronaut), Cornelius and Zira follow the Predator into the ruins of New York City. They are assailed by an illusion created by The Mutants (mutated human telepaths), unimpressed, the Predator walks right through the mirage.
St. Patrick's Cathedral. The Predator finds the Telepathic Mutants (Cronus, Crius, Helia and others) of the Forbidden Zone AND the missile he was looking for... the "Divine Bomb" of The Mutants. The Predator wants the vintage (two thousand years old) Alpha-Omega atomic Doomsday Bomb... to punish his peers who wronged him on Yautja Prime.
Crius utilizes his telepathic powers to force the Predator to hunt: Ursus, Dr. Zaius, Arch, Cornelius and Zira.
Will Arch and Ursus be able to obliterate the Predator with their fuel cells?
What I did like:
Magnificent covers by Stonehouse, Josemaria Casanovas and Phil Noto!
Hasslein's theory of time mentioned.
What I did not like:
Still no smart aleck giant brains in jars aka The Inheritors. Very disappointing.
Where is Mendez XXVI!?
Needed more Minister Sabian, Astronaut John Brent, Astronaut George Taylor, Lucius, Julius and Nova. A lot more.
The unpublished scripts of Doug Moench: Forbidden Zone Prime, The Captive of the Canals, To meet the Makers and Derek Zane + Faron in Journey to the Planet of the Apes are still not adapted!
I give it a 7/10. Greg Pak doesn't tap into Doug Moench's POTA expanded universe to make his story exceptional, he sticks to the unimaginative sequel way too much.
