BioWare reveals Mass Effect backstory

By Fred Dutton Published 5 January, 2011

Check out first five pages of new comic.

BioWare has published a taster of the forthcoming Mass Effect Evolution comic series, which promises to flesh out the backstory of its RPG franchise.

The series' developer posted the first five pages of the Dark Horse Comics-produced tie-in on its official blog, alongside the two different available covers.

Due out on 19th January, the four part series explores the origins of The Illusive Man and "chronicles humanity's first deadly days on the galactic stage."

It's written by Mac Walters – the same scribe responsible for penning the story for Mass Effect 2 and its impending sequel.

All four parts are up for pre-order now at Dark Horse's online store.

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Comments (11) Latest comment 1 year ago

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  • metalangel #1 1 year ago

    Beautiful, wonderfully coloured artwork, as you'd expect from Dark Horse. Unfortunately, their trademark rather abrupt dialogue is also present, which I find limits my enjoyment of their books.

    Did Makos even exist in the First Contact War?

  • M4RV #2 1 year ago

    ^ ^ ^ ^

    Good question. Now is probably a good time to consult the Codex available on the original ME game.

    - - - -

    Already pre-ordered it. Wish I was patient enough to wait for the inevitable hardcover collection, but I just can't. Too bad it's only a couple of issues though...

  • metalangel #3 1 year ago

    The Mass Effect wiki doesn't say one way or the other... but implies that no, it wouldn't have been. Shanxi was 25 years before the events of the first game, and the M29 Grizzly (the large tank you see almost everywhere but never get to drive, except for one use of a parked one's turret) was the Systems Alliance's main vehicle for 'over 30 years'.

  • Eraysor #4 1 year ago

    I'd much prefer books to comics (hence why I've bought all three of the excellent novels) but I'll probably try and get this anyway because I love the ME universe.

  • menage #5 1 year ago

    I don't really think Me fits that style. I'd rather see a Storm style one.

  • Paperghost #6 1 year ago

    "Die, skull faces"? I think the dialogue needs a bit of work...

  • Whitster #7 1 year ago

    Although I enjoyed the last series that set up ME:2 I do kind of wish that one of the big two had the lisence for this so we could see some of their exclusive artist on it.

  • Caimbeul #8 1 year ago

    @Eraysor: There were 3 novels? i only read 2 I would much prefer a novel too. The first two were very enjoyable.

    /scuttles off to Amazon immediately.

    EDIT: Bugger, looks like i have read all three :-(

    Edited by Caimbeul at 06/01/11 @ 09:44

  • MattyD #9 1 year ago

    I got the first Mass Effect comic series on my phone. The art is nice but the dialogue is soooooo bad. Story was paper-thin too, no pun intended.

  • Turrican #10 1 year ago

    /re-reads comic a second time...

    So this means The Illusive Man is called 'Jack Harper'?

  • Miths #11 1 year ago

    That's supposed to be Mass Effect?! Nice artwork, but to me the style mostly looks completely wrong, and who the hell is the 1950s action hero in the first image?

    Edit: Nevermind. For some reason I was under the assumption that this was the ME1 recap that's going to be part of the PS3 version of ME2, so the lack of familiar faces threw me off.
    Anyway, I still think the style looks a bit weird.
    Edited by Miths at 06/01/11 @ 14:40