Predator is a comic book and intercompany crossover, written by Alex de Campi and drawn by Fernando Ruiz.

The idea was first suggested in the Archie office and then proposed to Dark Horse, which holds the license to comics featuring the Predator character owned by 20th Century Fox.

The companies paired de Campi, a horror writer at Dark Horse, with Ruiz, a regular Archie artist.

Predator, a trophy-hunting alien arrives on Earth and begins stalking high school student Archie Andrews and his classmates.

[6] The project was originally titled Archie meets Predator, but it was changed to vs. because the people involved in production kept calling it that unintentionally, and to parody the Alien vs.

[10] She drew inspiration for the story from the 1940s era of the series, when she says Archie Andrews' girlfriends Betty Cooper and Veronica Lodge had "more edge".

[11] Her scripts were subject to notes and tweaks from Archie Comics and Fox, but de Campi described both licensors as "extremely mellow, pleasant and easy to work with".

[10] Fox's primary concern was why the Predator, who is known for choosing challenging prey, would be interested in teenagers, but a suitable explanation was included in the story.

Predator chose to use traditional methods and used FedEx to get the physical copy of each page to the person who would complete the next step in the process.

[23] When Archie and his friends take a spring break trip to Los Perdidos Resort, an alien, trophy-hunting Predator touches down in the nearby jungle.

Veronica recovers to find that Betty has used the healing machine to restore them both to full health and is now using it to transform the Predator into an Archie look-alike.

[32] The book's "deeply funny dark humor" was a selling point for Robin Parrish at Tech Times,[33] and IGN reviewer Jeff Lake described the first issue as "pretty darn great".

[18] The use of the traditional cartoon art style to depict gruesome scenes was described as "a visual loss of innocence" by Paste magazine.