Randy Stradley (born March 4, 1956) is an American comic book writer and editor and Vice President of Dark Horse Comics who has worked on numerous comic books in Dark Horse's Aliens, Predator, Aliens vs. Predator and Prometheus lines; Stradley is notable for having written many of the influential early Aliens vs. Predator comics series that helped make the crossover concept so popular. As well as writing, Stradley has severed as editor on dozens of comic stories for all three lines over the years.
Biography
Stradley has been with Dark Horse Comics since its inception by publisher Mike Richardson and now serves as Vice President and Chief Creative Officer at the company, He has for the past number of years served as main editor of the company's flagship Star Wars comics line.
In 2010, Stradley returned to the world of Aliens vs. Predator in a big way by serving as writer of the new series Aliens vs. Predator: Three World War.
Credits
Writer
Aliens
Predator
Aliens vs. Predator
- Aliens vs. Predator (1989 short story)
- Aliens vs. Predator (series)
- Aliens vs. Predator (1991 short story)
- Aliens vs. Predator 2
- Aliens vs. Predator: Blood Time
- Aliens vs. Predator: Duel
- Aliens vs. Predator: War
- Aliens vs. Predator: Three World War
Editor
Aliens
- Aliens: Outbreak
- Aliens: Theory of Alien Propagation
- Aliens: Nightmare Asylum
- Aliens: Advent/Terminus
- Aliens: The Alien
- Aliens: Reapers
- Dark Horse Presents: Aliens
- Aliens: Tribes
- Aliens: Newt's Tale
- Aliens: Colonial Marines
- Aliens: Taste
- Aliens: Alien
- Aliens: Lucky
- Aliens: Pig
- Aliens: Once in a Lifetime
- Aliens 30th Anniversary: The Original Comics Series
- Aliens: Life and Death
- Aliens: The Original Comics Series Volume 2
- Aliens: Dust to Dust
- Prometheus/Aliens/AVP/Predator: The Complete Life and Death
- Aliens: The Essential Comics Volume 1
Predator
- Predator: Concrete Jungle
- Predator: God's Truth
- Predator 2
- Predator: Cold War
- Batman versus Predator
- Predator: Race War (short story)
- Predator: The Hunted City
- Predator: 1718
- Predator: Primal
- Predator: Demon's Gold
- Predator: Life and Death
- Predator: Hunters
- Predator 30th Anniversary: The Original Comics Series
- Predator: Hunters II
- Prometheus/Aliens/AVP/Predator: The Complete Life and Death
- Predator: Hunters III
Aliens vs. Predator
- Aliens vs. Predator (1989 short story)
- Aliens vs. Predator (1991 short story)
- Prometheus/Aliens/AVP/Predator: The Complete Life and Death
- Alien vs. Predator: Thicker Than Blood
Prometheus
- Prometheus: Life and Death
- Prometheus: Life and Death - Final Conflict
- Prometheus/Aliens/AVP/Predator: The Complete Life and Death
Trivia
- Aside from his work on Aliens, Predator and Aliens vs. Predator comics, the short story Soul Survivors by Stradley and Tony Salmons was given away as a free mini-comic with Aliens magazine, Vol. 2 #2.