By Jim Rossignol on February 27th, 2009 at 3:31 pm.
Just spotted this on VG247, LucasArts are setting the scene for upcoming MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic with a webcomic. Looks like the individual issues are going to be fairly brief, and the art is only so-so, but it’s a cute idea. This kind of extra effort bodes well for the full game, in my mind.
27/02/2009 at 15:55 Ian says:
Nothing spectacular, but it’s a nice enough little comic and a decent way to get people into the setting of the game in advance.
27/02/2009 at 15:55 Dain says:
Those Sith badly want to be peacekeepers don’t they?
27/02/2009 at 16:05 cyrenic says:
He’s more marketing machine now than man; twisted and evil.
…I know, I’m a cynical bastard.
27/02/2009 at 16:25 karthik says:
Nothing spectacular, but it’s a nice enough little comic and a decent way to get people into the setting of the game in advance.
Umm… what setting is this? What of the prodigal knight, Revan? Where is the Jedi Exile? Is SWTOR confirmed to be a continuation of the KOTOR storyline?
I have never been sucked into anything Star Wars like I was into the KOTOR canon, hence the excited queries.
Also, the art looked pretty good, but I suppose that’s because of my unfamiliarity with comics in general.
27/02/2009 at 16:25 fodigg says:
Ra ra go go star wars and shit.
27/02/2009 at 16:29 Tei says:
I like it :-), it has some “alien on the earth” vibe to it. I am unsure about the history ( *SPOILER* sith attacking coruscant? is that episode 3 again? ), but everything else seems top noch. Just 1 image, and we know the main character is a emo-jedy girl.
27/02/2009 at 16:48 Ian says:
@ Karthik: I couldn’t remember for sure, but Wikipedia says:
“The story takes place in the Star Wars fictional universe shortly after the establishment of a tenuous peace between the re-emergent Sith Empire and the Galactic Republic, 300 years after the events of the Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic games and 3,500 years before the events in the Star Wars films. ”
Also:
http://www.swtor.com/info/story/setting
27/02/2009 at 17:34 graham says:
I think fairly breif was a bit of an overstatement. It takes longer to dig crap out my ears than it was to read this. I think I would appreciate it more when the whole lot is available.
Wouldn’t mind giving the watchmen motion comics a go…anyone seen them already? worth a punt?
27/02/2009 at 18:01 karthik says:
http://www.swtor.com/info/story/setting
The setting seems to have no obvious connection with KOTOR. Oh, well. Expanding canon, shortening attention span.
27/02/2009 at 18:36 Brian says:
What’s up with the acronyms in this series? First SWKOTOR, then SWKOTORIITSL, and now, just when I thought they’d gotten sensible with a title of reasonable length, they proffer SWTOR. “Sweater”.
Can’t wait for the next sequel, Star Wars: Evangelical Ewok Teamsters Meet Episcopalian Alderaanians’ Titilating Socialists
27/02/2009 at 18:41 maicon says:
man, that end was ridiculous, the most obvious thing to happen if you think about the siths, or enemies in general, they make a peace treaty and then atack you suddenly, people in this far way galaxy are not very smart…i was expecting something different.
27/02/2009 at 20:21 Sal says:
this is going live this year…
“Star Wars: Evangelical Ewok Teamsters Meet Episcopalian Alderaanians’ Titilating Socialists…” LOLz
27/02/2009 at 20:30 Tei says:
@maicon: Is 3300 years before of Admiral Ackbar military genius.
27/02/2009 at 20:43 PHeMoX says:
“Where is the Jedi Exile? Is SWTOR confirmed to be a continuation of the KOTOR storyline?”
No, there actually will be a KOTOR3, so don’t count on a continuation. They will however, and it’s painfully obvious from the comic, come up with a similar story to what has already been done within the SW universe.
The last page of the first issue especially is painfully bad drawn though. What were they thinking?
28/02/2009 at 00:12 JayVilnius says:
@PHeMoX: I’m not so sure there wiil be a standalone KOTOR3:
http://www.gamespot.com/pc/rpg/starwarstheoldrepublic/video/6199708/star-wars-the-old-republic-revealed
(about 1:25, and again at 2:00)
Bioware could change their stance of course, but personally I wouldn’t count on it.
28/02/2009 at 01:04 Binho says:
SPOILERS
– Jedi ,supposedly beings who can see into the future, somehow can’t sense the bad guys are deceiving them and starting a war….AGAIN. [check]
– Capital of a pan-galactic civilization which has mastered faster than light interstellar travel has security level equivalent of a trip-wire tied to a bell. [check]
…Well, if it continues like this BioWare will make the TV tropes website redundant. Other than that, everything you would expect from an Expanded Universe Star Wars story.
Hopefully the game will be more interesting than the webcomic.
28/02/2009 at 21:20 maicon says:
@Tei: Ackbar: “It’s a trap!” , hahahaha
05/11/2009 at 01:09 TOR Gamer says:
Its short but a nice way to draw people in.