Thread 150045606

ITT: Comics from other mediums

botns comics

>>150045606 (OP)
At a certain point it seemed like every video game got a tie-in comic

>>150045742
So many games did, here are a fraction more of them

i wonder how many people actually ever read some of these. there are so many media properties that have comics and most i feel people dont know even exist

>>150045915
ikr

>>150045865
I never knew about these

>>150045983
>>150045962
comic licensing has to be some kind of hollywood accounting situation , no ?

>>150046049
Comic licensing has existed for decades and for decades was considered a normal part of cross promotion of your property. It still happens today but less frequently

>>150045606 (OP)
They were SO kino...

>>150046209
i want a new infamous game starring cole so bad its unreal

>>150046217
>live action covers
they knew and are based for doing so

>>150046209
>sucker punch

okok you all have proved that a lot of them exist. but how many of them are actually GOOD ? I often see these comics say things like "set before X event in the game/movie/show!" but how many times is that needed or how many times is it actually good and adds well to the existing lore of the universe vs how many are just ash grabs and/or make things worse?

really hate this one

>>150046519
ive never played those walking dead games i feel like im the only one

>>150046436
some of the league of legends ones are ok

some are straight trash though

Unironically one of the best licensed comics ever. And the fact that they're officially considered canon and referenced in other in-universe material that has been released since (since Bob Gale wrote it) is also great. Shame that it never got a hardcover omnibus.

>>150046436
The Fallout New Vegas prequel comic All Roads is genuinely pretty good, it's a nice little story set directly before the events of the intro.

>>150045855
I thought the Killzone comic never got released. Which is a shame, i look back at that series with glorious rose tinted glasses

>>150047517
It was cool and it was a shame we never got more Fallout Comics.

>>150045606 (OP)
This was a tie-in comic that came with the Elder Scrolls: Redguard. Though it says it's at like issue 24 really it was the only one made. It's a shame Bethesda basically sits on Elder Scrolls tie-in media money, they would have made pretty good comics if they were given to a nice writer.

>>150046756
Played them recently and I liked them, they are more like interactive movies than games but they are entertaining

I actually own this and it is beyond abhorrent. They are quite literally a few panels traced straight from the original anime series. It only had a four-issue run, but by show had already been cancelled before the third issue was out. Genius.

>>150045606 (OP)
They're called licensed comics and they're never worth reading. One of the very few types of comics that are even more worthless than capeshit.

>>150048509
It's crazy that they somehow made a decent One Piece live action adaption that actually felt somewhat faithful to the source material when Cowboy Bebop should be infinitely easier to adapt.

>>150047517
who is that artist

>>150047729
>>150047718
microsoft really mismanaged all their franchises. Halo and Gears used to be big pop culture moments now no one cares about them

>>150048630
The comic has two artists and they both haven't done much of consequence

>>150045962
Did it last for 24 issues with each issue being one hour?

>>150045749
It's crazy what the jews have done to the West.

>>150050406
cringe

>>150046215
You know remember that her and Sarah from Witchblade were BFFs.

>>150046243
I have this issue, I'm just missing part two.

>>150048646
>now no one cares about them
Gears of War EU, a 2013 game, sold more in pre-orders on PS5 than Sony's own next game (that Ghost of something).

>>150051151
proof ?

>>150051349
whats seaquest ?

>>150051359
It was a live-action science fiction show from the 90s. Basically Star Trek but deep sea instead of space.

The woF comics are adaptatios of novels.

>>150051584
man marvel really has had the licenses for so much shit throughout history. DC sisters whats our excuse

I had so many X-Files comics

>>150045742
There was an era where EA was really pushing multi-media projects. Pretty much their entire stable got novels, comics, animation, etc

Every horror icon has gotten multiple comic series from multiple publishers.

>>150047772
>Bethesda
>nice writer

>>150052140
The Ash vs Freddy vs Jason is the one that comes to mind

>>150046136
>>150046148
We could keep this thread afloat for a while just with Gold Key and Dell

>>150052351
There's actually two of those, the first one is legit pretty fun, the second is batshit insane.

>>150048536
Depends on the property, the company and who they put on it.

>>150052351
>>150052848
There was an interview with one of the writers of Freddy vs Jason vs Ash that I recently stumbled across, and he said that thanks to the success of DC's R-rated animated films that there was serious talk of doing the crossover as a direct to DVD Warner animated film, but it fell apart before anyone was hired to work on it.

This is real btw

>>150052093
>topps comics
what ever happened there

There is so many tokusatsu Brazilian comics

Ghostbusters was really good. Until it wasn't. But I don't blame the creative team in the slightest for that. And it took a good long time to start to drop.

>>150053563
>Topps entered the comic book market as the number of publishers was increasing, with at least nine other companies joining the field from 1990 to 1992. This coincided with an increase in comic-book market-speculation that created inflated sales and an eventual collapse of the market. Topps Comics closed in 1998.

>>150052852
Just watch the movie.

>>150055739
I did. They cut the whole Magnificent 7 subplot with the giant green carnivorous rabbit.

>>150048536
>>150052852
Licenseshit work period if they satisfy the following
>Is there an active fanbase for this IP let alone that would read comics?
>Does this licensed comic remind or even accentuates to the reader why they love the IP to begin with?
>Is there something in this comic that the reader can't get anywhere else from the IP?
>If canon to the source material, do the stories not feel like filler?
>Is there a sizable talent pool willing and eager to work on this IP as a licensed comic?
Otherwise they come across as well, filler
Glorified cheaply made accessories
Lower than direct to DVD movies
The problem with tie-in licenseshit especially is that it's near practically guaranteed to be filler because no self-respecting vidya developer or filmmaker would have a fucking comic be essential for a complete story and if the tie-in licenseshit is a retelling, it's just gonna be an inferior method of engaging with a story that's already there.

>>150045606 (OP)
The plural of medium is 'media.'

>>150057795
shut up nerd

>>150050406
They're both hot.

>>150045606 (OP)
>ITT: Comics from other mediums
cool

>>150053740
I say it got boring when every storyline had multiverse bullshit thrown in. It was perfectly fine with the Real Ghostbusters one... but then it just got out of hand by the end. They corrected course with the Transformers crossover and Year One, but a lot of damage had been done by that point.

>>150058052
O-okay...

>>150059234
leave

bump this is a fun thread

>>150062200
how do i know this is sorted by most sold ?

>>150062254
Because it's the pre-order bestseller list.

>>150062291
nevermind i just checked you're right. i still stand by what i said. microsoft killed the franchise with 4 and 5 and its not nearly as popular as it once was. they left it dormant for years too which makes things worse

>>150045742
>>150045757
>>150045855
>>150052109
I'm fucking pissed they don't do more full comic adaptations of a game the same way they used to do (far more pointlessly) for movies like the Star Wars prequels. Games are far less accessible than movies but we still want to experience these stories.

God of War got novelization's for its 1st 2 games but they inexplicably did not give one for the 3rd (cunts)

>>150062351
Speaking of God of War, it got 3 different comic series

>>150046177
https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/Primal-Rage

>>150046372
https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/Final-Destination-Spring-Break

https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/Final-Destination-Sacrifice

>>150048536
>They're called licensed comics and they're never worth reading
The 90s AVP series are some of the best comics of the fucking decade you lying bitch.

Not a single one of the Dark Horse Predator comics was a 50th as bad as the 2018 movie.

Godzilla The Half Century War is one of the best G stories in any medium.

Fuck off.

>>150051157
https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/Bloodrayne-Twin-Blades

>>150062427
None of them were adapting the games themselves.

>>150048646
Gears of war run in wildstorm publishng was good it had liam sharp and joshua ortega.

Halo comicbooks in Marvel were OK, halo comicbooks in darkhorse were 50/50

>>150047772
it's kinda of surprising that outside of a book or two, elder scrolls doesn't get a lot of tie-in media even though its setting is good for it

Why did they make Taylor Swift so busty on this cover?

>>150064857
manface

>>150053740
Don't forget how IDW's first couple oclf Ghostbusters minis were also pretty bad until Burnham and Schoening came onboard and overhaled everything.

>>150045606 (OP)
Halo comics are the reason I lost faith in Dark Horse, their art is horrible. I prefer the earlier Halo comics that Marvel made, at least the faces didn't look like vomit

>licensed comics are all now relegated to a combined thread
This is fucking depressing.

>>150066446
Huh.

>>150067882
It's not the movie btw.

>>150066330
Yeah...

The regular comic....

>>150071194
...and the magazine.

>>150066330
>>150069741
And it can barely stay alive.

>>150060467
I was getting pretty sick of the crossovers too. I guess they sold better but If I wanted to read TMNT I'd read TMNT.

>>150072370
oof

>>150066330
Not necessarily, you can always make your own thread for a particular comic if you want. It's just that the vast majority is so garbage that it's probably better if they all got lumped together.

DnD comics can sometimes be decent

a friend gave me the dark souls comics for a birthday present and they were the shittiest adaptation of anything in comic form i've ever seen
i don't think a single person working on those comics had ever played any of the souls games or knew what they were about or understood their visual styles at all
why make the fucking thing if it has literally nothing to do with the games at all?
it's just fucking terrible, no excuse for how bad it is, and i hope the people that worked on it never get professional comic work ever again

>>150071194
>>150071247
This guy was popular enough to inspire the monk class in d&d

>>150052919
Why did they give the license to some schizo? And why did no one notice?

>>150074513
Yeah, sometimes

>>150073991
nice.

>>150075657
Capcom didn't care, except when said schizo started pushing a shitty OC as the main character.

>>150045705
This something new.

>>150045606 (OP)
Humans are Forerunners.

>>150080816
That would be fucking retarded and it would cut us off from Greg Bear's lore. No thanks.

>>150080845
NTA but I'm willing to toss out a few good scifi books for the same of the larger thematic impetus of an entire series. Especially if they are the only pieces of 343 era lore that are worthwhile.

>>150081022
* for the sake

>>150075657
>>150079321
I assumed this was completely unofficial and nobody gave a fuck because fuck south america