Mac and the Bioware team provided lots of background on the Mass Effect universe, as well as visuals and information from the unreleased game, for use by myself and artist Omar Francia, who had previously worked on Star Wars: Legacy.
Mac Walters, the lead designer at Bioware, provided the plot for the story in “Redemption,” making it a true part of the Mass Effect universe, bridging the first game with its late January 2010 sequel. So I didn’t have to be convinced - and with KOTOR wrapping up and space in my schedule before other planned projects ramped up, I was able to dive in pretty quickly. I was well aware of Mass Effect, the hit video game by Bioware, the same folks that designed the first KOTOR video game I liked its military SF look and feel. Part of me feels like I shouldn't be giving the comic such a hard time, since it's only on its first issue, but there will only be four in total and the fact that it's only the first issue doesn't mean it costs you any less.In the spring of 2009, my editor on Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic at Dark Horse, Dave Marshall, approached me with the opportunity to bring the Mass Effect video game universe to comics for the first time. It's not helped by the fact that you just know that any important details that pop up will be covered by ME2.įrankly, by the end of the comic all I really felt was that 15 minutes had gone by. It has enough interest you if you're a serious ME fan, but little more. The plot is not vastly exciting, given that there's not a lot of dramatic tension surrounding Shepard's condition come the end of the series. The pencils do the job and move the story along, but do little to elevate the whole thing beyond being a fairly utilitarian extension of the game's plot (I did, I have to confess, want Liara to be a bit sexier in that blue, alien funny-shaped head way that she has). The script is serviceable but not particularly interesting (except for a bar-room conversation with an Elcor - that's kind of fun).
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