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New York, NY – DC Comics, the world's largest English language comic book publisher and home to Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman announced plans today to publish a new comic book series based on World of Warcraft®, Blizzard Entertainment®’s popular massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG). Preview art from the series will debut at Comic-Con International, held in San Diego, CA from July 26–29. The World of Warcraft comic book will be published through DC’s WildStorm imprint and debut this fall.
The ongoing monthly series will be written by industry veteran Walter Simonson (Thor, Orion) and feature art by Ludo Lullabi and inker Sandra Hope. The first six issues of the World of Warcraft comic series will each feature two covers, one by superstar comic book artist Jim Lee and a second by Blizzard Entertainment Senior Art Director Samwise Didier.
The Warcraft® series has been a pillar of gaming culture for over a decade, with multiple #1-selling titles. Blizzard’s World of Warcraft MMORPG allows thousands of players to explore the rich, war-torn setting of the franchise together, and has attracted more than 8.5 million subscribers worldwide. The Burning Crusade, the first expansion to World of Warcraft, recently shattered PC game sales records by selling more than 2.4 million copies in its first 24 hours of release and approximately 3.5 million in its first month.
The first storyline of the new ongoing series begins when a human is found unconscious on the shores of Kalimdor, with no memory of who he is or how he arrived there. Enslaved by an orc shaman, the man must fight for survival against members of both the Alliance and the Horde. He strikes uneasy relationships with other races in his quest to find the secrets of his past.
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Best known for blockbuster hits including World of Warcraft and the Warcraft , StarCraft® , and Diablo® series, Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. (www.blizzard.com ), a division of Vivendi Games, is a premier developer and publisher of entertainment software renowned for creating some of the industry's most critically acclaimed games. Blizzard's track record includes ten #1-selling games and multiple Game of the Year awards. The company's online-gaming service, Battle.net®, is one of the largest in the world, with millions of active users.
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Simonson's a good writer, he wrote some of the best Thor ever and his Orion was fantastic. Both dealt heavily with magic and fantasy and the like.
So, at least we know it has a good chance of being at least decent.
That all depends on whether or not Blizzard has a stranglehold on their IP right now. I wouldn't put it past them to contain what happens in media other than their game, if for no other reason than to preserve the 'lore' they use to generate game content (i.e. no killing major characters, no creating especially powerful ones, and no changes in the political landscape).
As terrible as the underlying story of Warcraft is, millions of people just eat the shit up, so I doubt they are prepared to let someone else influence things that have bearing on their game.
The only thing that would make it better is if Simonson was doing the art as well. He's in my top 5 faves.
That being said- those promo pieces look awesome.
Armor doesn't work that way.
LOOK AT HIS ASS.
I didnt notice it was Lee.
Unless they are trying to show an orc about to utterly rape a paladin, because that's the only thing that can logically follow from that shot. Somehow, I had a feeling they were going for a more "evenly matched clash of weapons" approach.
All in all, very unexcited, some of the promo art is okay but that's about it. And I really have no faith in them being able to make a good story out of WoW.
Come on now, you play WoW. I'm sure you know that position has no bearing on your block chance.
Well...he could technically be behind him, in which case he can't block.
Oh god I am nerdy, even by GV standards.
Wouldn't blocking underneath the armpit with a giant shield eliminate any leverage from the attacker?
The orc has two axes, though.
What the hell gives? Don't all comic covers, and for that matter, the interiors, work on the same level of ridiculousness? And complaining about the armored ass seems weird considering all the spandex wedgies that are always going on in the superhero side of things.
And I'm sure there's more to the plot of WoW than there is to the Street Fighter storyline.
Or clothing/armor not working the way it does in real life?
Hobbes: Is Amazon Girl's super power the ability to squeeze her figure into that suit?
Calvin: Nah, they can all do that.
wd-40.
What's with all the Jim Lee hate in here? Personally, I can't get enough of his work...I think he's a brilliant artist.
It looks to me like the part of the leggings covering his ass is actually cloth, not metal. It can't all be armor. I mean, how exactly would complete leg armor that was constructed out of one solid, continuous piece of sheet metal work exactly? Seems it would be kind of hard to move your legs in something like that.
The armor design is a pretty accurate recreation of the Lawbringer paladin armor set from the actual game (I wouldn't expect anyone who hasn't played WoW extensively to know that, of course), so you can't entirely blame Lee for the armor design anyway.
As for the poses...they seem plausible enough to me...certainly by comic book standards, at any rate. If I have any issue at all with the pose, it's that the Paladin seems to have his torse twisted a little too far in the direction of the viewer, given the position of his legs. In fact, given the direction his torso is pointed, I don't think we should even be able to see any part of his ass at all...
But Simonson at least has me thinking about it.
Wow. I'm honestly not sure if the goal of that strip is to attempt to make me laugh...or to make me want to commit seppuku with a spork...
if you're basing your impressions of all comic art on a reference to a calvin and hobbes strip from fifteen years ago, i think i see your problem
Magic elastic platemail? That's a high-level item or something, right?
Orcs ain't real
Off topic, but the last time I read that joke, I thought that 'figure' meant 'action figure.' I didn't really get that joke.
I didn't get a lot of Calvin and Hobbes at that age.
I remember reading one about a millionaire archer who felt bad that he spent so much money on trick arrows and not much money on helping people in need.
I had to check to make sure he wasn't wearing any green.