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1. There are approximately 8,000 comics based on games, with more on the way
Though comic adaptations of games were around even before the Archie-published Sonic comics of the '90s, there’s been a deluge of them since the big success of the Halo original graphic novel a few years ago, although you probably haven't noticed. Gears of War, Resistance, World of Warcraft and Prototype have all gotten their own series (or limited series), and we’re guessing they’ve been successful, because a crapload more comics got announced at SDCC.
EA was the biggest force, as they announced upcoming comic versions of Dante's Inferno (DC Comics is publishing), Dead Space: Extraction fromImage Comicsand Mass Effect fromDark Horse Comics. Meanwhile, new franchises from Capcom and Activision (SpyborgsandSingularity, respectively) are getting one-off comics to help hype and introduce readers to the new games. Even God of War isgetting into it. But what fascinated us most was the news that Jordan Mechner, the creator of Prince of Persia and the driving force behind the recent classic Prince of Persia: Sands of Time, iswriting a graphic novelmeant to follow the PoP film coming next year.
Why is this fascinating? Three reasons: first, unlike 99 percent of previous comics based on games, this one has the direct involvement of someone very important to the series. Second, Jordan Mechner has already written a really goodPrince of Persia graphic novel. And third, the more we see from thePoP filmthe more hope we put into the idea of this comic redeeming a possibly crappy film.
