Fleener Creek, Oregon, is an average Northwestern town, like any other speed zone too small to make the map. It's got a sheriff who's got a longing for action. There are townsfolk with whispered histories -- like Buddy Wilcox, who's said to have murdered his own father -- and there are locals to whom you'd give the Good Samaritan award -- but who dream of doing things that would give Buddy nightmares. Like all small towns, Fleener Creek is a powder keg waiting to blow. But unlike other small towns, Fleener's got a catalyst to set the action blazing -- Fleener's got a Predator.

"No one in Fleener would commit violence if the Predator didn't show up. He's the living embodiment of their primal thoughts," said Jason Lamb, who co-wrote Predator: Kindred with Scott Tolson. "The Predator is, in a way, a demon that possesses the town, a demon they must exorcise to survive. He's their inner evil."

It's a community where the people leave their doors open but keep their primal selves locked up. It's a community where little Buddy Wilcox wished on a falling star that his abusive father would die. But this falling star was actually the ship of a Predator who made little Buddy's dream come true -- right in front of him. Now, thirty years later, four kindred spirits -- an escaped serial killer, a Predator, sheriff Kelly Mathis, and Buddy -- clash in the forest, unleashing the violence and heat of a hibernating grizzly of a town.

Predator: Kindred #1 is the first of four issues written by Scott Tolson and Jason Lamb, featuring amazing Dark Horse newcomer Brian O'Connell on pencils. It ships November 29 and retails for $2.50.