Created by Saejin Oh from UDON EntertainmentFrom April 18-20th the New York Comic Con 2008 was in full-force; traditionally cons are where many important pop-culture announcements. This year there was even a StarCraft announcement.
Tokyopop, one of the most renowned manga companies and
Blizzard Entertainment recently announced a Three-Year Publishing Deal to release twenty-two manga adventures set in the richly detailed Warcraft and StarCraft® universes. By August 2008 two anthology titles will be available at bookstores: StarCraft: Frontline and Warcraft Legends. Tokyopop also announced their second StarCraft manga title:
StarCraft: Ghost Academy.
StarCraft: Frontline
Richard A. Knaak is the author of one of the stories in the StarCraft: Frontline anthology manga under the title: Thundergod. It will feature the Terran Thor - a massive robotic unit featured in StarCraft II.
StarCraft: Ghost Academy
StarCraft: Ghost Academy by Keith R.A. DeCandido will be an ongoing manga series featuring November Anabelle Terra (Nova), the lethal Ghost agent from the "indefinitely postponed" StarCraft: Ghost FPS Console game developed by Blizzard Entertainment. Keith wrote StarCraft Ghost: Nova for Pocket Books in 2006 as a prequel to the Console game. Now he continues his work, polishing the character, this time in a Tokyopop Manga. Keith mentioned at the New York Comic Con, during the Warcraft and StarCraft Panel, that a StarCraft II character would make an appearance in StarCraft Ghost: Academy. The Manga is set prior to Nova's first mission, when Nova was still at the Ghost Program Academy. An artist for StarCraft: Ghost Academy will be announced soon by Tokyopop. The first volume's release is scheduled for Summer 2009.
The first two
Warcraft titles also announced at the NY08 Comic Con were:
Warcraft Legends &
Warcraft: Dragons of Outland.
This is pretty neat - the art style could really be quite interesting especially if the realistic style seen in the teaser is used. It's also interesting to watch StarCraft's universe evolve into all types of mediums. No longer are we the ugly step-child -
StarCraft is back.
Source:BlizzPlanet.com's NY Comic Con Manga Coverage
