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Dragon Age: Origins comic starts in January; Orson Scott Card to script

by John Callaham Oct 5th 2009 @ 1:00PM

The latest game-to-comics adaptation is due out in January from IDW Publishing as they have announced a new partnership with Electronic Arts to begin a new line of EA Comics. The line begins in January with the debut of a series based on BioWare's upcoming fantasy RPG Dragon Age: Origins.

EA will be doing the actual funding and editing of the comic book line while IDW will handle printing and distribution of the comics for both print and digital release (via iPhone and other outlets). Previously EA has worked with other publishers such as DC's WildStorm line (for Mirror's Edge) and Dark Horse (for their upcoming Mass Effect comic).

The Dragon Age comic will be a regular monthly series (not a mini-series) and will be scripted by none other than acclaimed sci-fi/fantasy author Orson Scott Card. Humberto Ramos will be the cover artist on the series. However story details and an interior artist have yet to be revealed.

Gallery: Dragon Age Origins

Filed under: Culture, RPG, Dragon Age: Origins

American McGee's Grimm heads to comics in April

by John Callaham Dec 23rd 2008 @ 6:00PM

There's been a lot of games adapted into comic books lately and the latest such project that will get that treatment is the episodic PC game series American McGee's Grimm. Over at the official IDW Publishing blog site it has been announced that the comic book publisher will launch a five issue monthly mini-series based on the game starting in April.

You can see the cover for the first issue over on the right. As you can tell the series won't be adapting classic fairy tales but instead will give the American McGee-style riff on comic book genres such as superheroes. Other issues will spotlight funny animal comics, romance comics, western comics and even Archie-style teenage comics. The series will be written by Dwight MacPherson and illustrated by Grant Bond.

[Via Blue's News]

Filed under: Culture, Action