Dark Horse, the independent comics publisher known for original properties like Hellboy and Sin City as well as comics based on popular franchises like Aliens, is adapting the original screenplay that became 1987’s Predator into a five-part mini series beginning this summer. Judging by the inaugural issue’s cover image, the adaptation is going with the titular alien’s original design as briefly portrayed by Jean Claude Van Damme, and this excites me to no end. The comic, by Jeremy Barlow, Patrick Blaine, and Andy Owens, is based on the 1984 screenplay Hunter by Jim Thomas and John …