SC Comic

[pure.Wasted]

Is this thing... actually good?

Originally I kind of dismissed it but I keep hearing interesting bits and pieces. How does it compare to other SC fiction? How does it compare to the WoW comic?

I'm considering buying it all out next week so spoiler-free advice would be vunderbar.

[Visions of Khas]

Are you talking about the monthly comic following the War Pigs?

I detest the art work. It's hard to keep up with what is going on; everything is so poorly cropped. Though each is illustrated by the same artist, there are a number of assistants that help ink each one, so some look slightly different to me. I'm not the best illustration student you'll ever find, but I have high standards and this lack of consistency really bugs me, and these are reasons enough for me to not enjoy it.

I find the characters hard to sympathize with, and they seem one dimensional. They are certainly a motley crew, but I had a lot of trouble differentiating between two characters in the first issue, both of whom were bald. (I swear one is patterned after Bruce Willis.)

[pure.Wasted]

I swear one is patterned after Bruce Willis.

So it's not just me who thought that?! I saw like one of the images, of a dude on a Vulture, and that's the first thing that came to mind.

That doesn't sound very... erm... encouraging. :/

[Visions of Khas]

Well, others, like Kimera, like it I think. And issue 3 (or is it 4?) has a group of Dark Templar make a cameo and intimidate the War Pigs. They confront them aboard what I think is a Star Relic, or whatever type of vessel the Void Bringer is.

[Kimera757]

Is this thing... actually good?

It depends on what you're looking for. If you're interested in the Dominion, I would say yes. There's almost civil war going on inside. There's also an interesting storyline involving betrayal, murder, betrayal, murder, and a few more doses of betrayal

Character "reveal" is kind of slow. Some of them have interesting backgrounds (IMO Cole Hickson, Turfa Dei and Nuura Joss do) but we still know little about "psycho medic" Romy Pyrius, and Iggins is just ... bland. Tamsen Cauley is pretty interesting; we don't see much of him beyond issue 1 though. (Which is fair; the main characters have to get a chance to shine at some point.)

Originally I kind of dismissed it but I keep hearing interesting bits and pieces. How does it compare to other SC fiction?

I would put it midway. IMO it's looking better than a lot of Frontline stuff, actually, since the storyline doesn't need to be compressed so much.

How does it compare to the WoW comic?

The art isn't nearly as good, and it's often confusing. (Sometimes the plot is confusing as well; Simon Furman seems determined to force a re-read of each issue.)

The first WoW volume had a better storyline, IMO. However, WoW volume 2 wasn't nearly as good as this comic, and from what I've seen of volume 3 it wasn't as good either.

I'm considering buying it all out next week so spoiler-free advice would be vunderbar.

I would suggest buying a single issue and see if you like it. And if at all possible, get issue 1 as well, as otherwise you'll have a bit of trouble understanding what's going on.

[newcomplex]

Well, others, like Kimera, like it I think. And issue 3 (or is it 4?) has a group of Dark Templar make a cameo and intimidate the War Pigs. They confront them aboard what I think is a Star Relic, or whatever type of vessel the Void Bringer is.

The void bringer is probably a supped up corsair with a emo color scheme.


The art style is really just a matter of taste. I prefer western art over eastern art for comic books, so I like the comic series more. The plot is pretty cohesive and lorelols are at a minimum, except for the whole cybercats thing in the second comic (made me want to throw up).

Nothing too cheesy, the characters are pretty good overall.

I personally didn't like the WoW comics at all, they made Valerian too much of a badass who doesn't afraid of anything (and they give him credit for like half the raids your character did in wow). War-pigs lacks a defined super baddass, which is pretty beneficial to the plot overall. In addition, the flaws and the backstory of the character seems a lot more genuine.

Basically, I'd put it below some of the good novels such as queen of blades and I,mengsk, but if you bought the manga series, I'd say warpigs is defintely better.

[Kimera757]

The void bringer is probably a supped up corsair with a emo color scheme.

No, it's large enough to carry troops and smaller ships.

The art style is really just a matter of taste. I prefer western art over eastern art for comic books, so I like the comic series more. The plot is pretty cohesive and lorelols are at a minimum, except for the whole cybercats thing in the second comic (made me want to throw up).

I don't see how cybercats are a lorelol. Giving slaves a ship with warp capability; now that's kind of bad. Fortunately only the first two issues had lorelols like that.

Nothing too cheesy, the characters are pretty good overall.

I personally didn't like the WoW comics at all, they made Valerian too much of a badass who doesn't afraid of anything (and they give him credit for like half the raids your character did in wow). War-pigs lacks a defined super baddass, which is pretty beneficial to the plot overall. In addition, the flaws and the backstory of the character seems a lot more genuine.

I agree with all this except the part about the WoW raids. I don't play WoW, and to me important NPCs should be killed off by important characters. We don't even know which faction killed Illidan, things are that bad in WoW lore.

You thought Queen of Blades was good?

[phazonjunkie]

Would you please be so kind as to never mention QoB again? EVER!

Anyway in regards the starcraft comic; I kinda like the art style. But I will admit that it's a bit of an acquired taste. If nothing else it's pretty consistent.

Regarding the storyline, I'm inclined to agree with VoK. The characters do seem a bit flat. The storyline is intriguing. But it seems to drag on. I mean how long can you stretch out a storyline about a group of merc/ex cons on a mission to assassinate Raynor (which we all know ultimately fails one way or another). Hell it's worse than a Dragonball Z series arc!

[newcomplex]

I actually never read Queen of Blades, only Imengsk, Uprising and the DT saga. I never knew it was that bad . I was under the impression it was good.

Sorry.

What was wrong with QOB? Just wondering, only read the plot summary on SC wikia.

No, it's large enough to carry troops and smaller ships.

But the design is very similar to corsairs, as opposed to void rays. We have a Podular area for crew with two giant pincer things which I would presume are its weapons, channeling energy in a way similar to corsairs. Hence, a supped up corsair thats gigantic.

Void Rays lack both podular area and it has a giant khaydarin crstale between the pincer things.

Regarding the storyline, I'm inclined to agree with VoK. The characters do seem a bit flat. The storyline is intriguing. But it seems to drag on. I mean how long can you stretch out a storyline about a group of merc/ex cons on a mission to assassinate Raynor (which we all know ultimately fails one way or another). Hell it's worse than a Dragonball Z series arc!

I can't think of a blizzard novel since the early warcraft ones that involved dynamic characters that were incredibly well designed. The characters aren't really suppose to be dynamic either. You have like 8 25 page comics to tell the story of 8 people. That averages out to 25 page per person. 25 comic pages is simply not enough to present a dynamic character and still have room for a developed and relevant (to starcraft 2), unless you wanted the story to focus exclusively on these peoples lives, without cool stuff like random dark templar encounters. Its better to give them well defined and cool, albeit flat personalities instead of dynamic but loosely defined ones.



If your looking at it analytically (the same applies to the rest of blizzards book), its a bad comic. Even without going into philosophical comic masterpieces, like the Sandman or Watchman series, even comparing it to basic run of the mill comic store comics, its a bit sub-par.

But it is about starcraft, and it does present starcraft in a light that is at least mediocre, instead of terribad and retarded (cough SotX cough), so that alone should make it "good" in our eyes (sc fanboys :P)

[Visions of Khas]

The StarCraft wiki classifies the Void Bringer as a Star Relic.