View Full Version : Videogames to Comics
the-screw-on-aaron
06-25-2007, 12:01 AM
With Halo coming to comics with such a high-profile team hype kicking around, I thought it would be cool to discuss what other video games people would like to come to comics with their favorite writers and artists.
I think a Legend of Zelda comic written by Bill Willingham would be fantastic. He has such a knack for that fantasy kind of writing, plus with all the mythology of Zelda he would have quite a lot to work with. As an artist I think maybe Bryan Hitch could pull it off? I'm not too sure about he but that last ultimates issue with all the knights from Asguard coming over the rainbow to fight the daemons was pretty spectacular.
What video games would you like to see brought into the comic genre with a professional writer and artist?
paper
06-25-2007, 12:14 AM
I would read Greg Rucka's Pong.
paper
06-25-2007, 12:17 AM
Metroid has a cool mythology to it. That could work actually.
the-screw-on-aaron
06-25-2007, 12:22 AM
Metroid has a cool mythology to it. That could work actually.
ooo that would be a good one! Who could write it though?
Frank Tieri's Grand Theft Auto
paper
06-25-2007, 12:26 AM
Metroid's got the crazy viruses and such....hmm....Morrison? Or Whedon if you want to play up the kick-ass girl bounty hunter angle.
snooganshooligan
06-25-2007, 12:52 AM
A comic for Paperboy would be hilarious, and about two issues long
or Gear of War would make a good one
esophagus
06-25-2007, 01:35 AM
Alan Moore's the Suffering would be sweet, it has real story behind it. Jim Lee art maybe?
A Starcraft comic following Kerrigan or Raynor around would be pretty sweet. Mark Waid as a writer? I'm not sure about an artist.
six-gun
06-25-2007, 03:30 AM
This is exactly my kind of thread, expect multiple entries from me.
IDW's Metal Gear Solid comic has been pretty good (however it has changed the game's events just a little bit and is way too bloodless and action-free) the problem is that:
1. It barely comes out quarterly.
2. It follows the events of the games, I want to see a new story!
What I would want from a Metal Gear Solid Comic:
1. A new story staring Solid Snake (David Sears) during either his time as a Green Beret, or during the time between MGS1 and MGS2
2. Written by either Greg Rucka or novelist Vince Flynn and art by either:
Marcelo Frusin (Loveless)
http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a161/Sn4ke22/lovelesstpb_1150303210.jpg
or
Stefano Guadiano
http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a161/Sn4ke22/WinterSolider01_panel-771512.jpg
six-gun
06-25-2007, 03:43 AM
Psy-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy.
An awesome game about government conspiracy and psychic powers.
A bit wacky, so I'd say it needs Matt Fraction on writing
and a slightly cartoony artist like Ed McGuinness
http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a161/Sn4ke22/emcg.jpg
six-gun
06-25-2007, 03:46 AM
Oh yeah, I was wondering if you guys want me to make an "ask Six Gun" thread for when the Halo comic comes out, I freely admit that I'm way too obsessed with Halo and have read/played every single in-cannon part of the universe in detail and would love to answer any nerdy questions that may confound you non-Halo, Bendis/Maleev fans buying Uprising.
DIdn't you just get a PS3? How're you gonna play Halo 3? Coming soon...
six-gun
06-25-2007, 03:51 AM
looking through my games, I'll have more soon!
paper
06-25-2007, 03:52 AM
I'm gonna wait for the trade. If it's any good.
six-gun
06-25-2007, 03:52 AM
DIdn't you just get a PS3? How're you gonna play Halo 3? Coming soon...
I have a 360 that I bought with my own money last year and I got the PS3 this week for my 17th birthday.
six-gun
06-25-2007, 03:53 AM
I'm gonna wait for the trade. If it's any good.
I bet you have some good ideas for this thread.
paper
06-25-2007, 03:56 AM
What, this one? I don't play a lot of video games, so I'm probably the wrong guy to ask.
paper
06-25-2007, 04:07 AM
How about a Resident Evil comic (no association with the movies)?
Or uh...Dynasty Warriors/Samurai Warriors with art by Leinil Yu? Big melee battles in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms mode. I'd buy the hell out of that.
Streets of Rage 2 by Bendis and Cho!
I'm surprised Tom Clancy hasn't liscensed some sort of Rainbow 6 or Splinter Cell comic book already.
six-gun
06-25-2007, 04:14 AM
How about a Resident Evil comic (no association with the movies)?
Or uh...Dynasty Warriors/Samurai Warriors with art by Leinil Yu? Big melee battles in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms mode. I'd buy the hell out of that.
Streets of Rage 2 by Bendis and Cho!
See those are great ideas right there.
paper
06-25-2007, 04:15 AM
This all reminded me of this Penny Arcade offering...
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y192/polcapn/tetrisTheMovie.jpg
six-gun
06-25-2007, 04:22 AM
I'm surprised Tom Clancy hasn't liscensed some sort of Rainbow 6 or Splinter Cell comic book already.
There are a few licensed Splinter Cell novels, I liked the first one and couldn't even finish the second. Haven't tried the third.
The Ghost Recon comic:
Written by Garth Ennis, drawn by
Jae Lee
http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a161/Sn4ke22/SIXGUN.jpg
Man that would be sweet, have Garth Ennis and Jae Lee ever worked together?
Is Jae's art a little too gritty for Ennis? (meaning his over the top violence would be too much in Jae Lee's style as opposed to the slightly tongue in cheek feel it sometimes has)
Is this something better explored in another thread?
six-gun
06-25-2007, 05:29 AM
Man that would be sweet, have Garth Ennis and Jae Lee ever worked together?
Is Jae's art a little too gritty for Ennis? (meaning his over the top violence would be too much in Jae Lee's style as opposed to the slightly tongue in cheek feel it sometimes has)
Is this something better explored in another thread?
I see your point, but I wouldn't want the violence in my Ghost Recon comic to tongue in cheek
True, and perhaps that's why Ennis isn't right. He's so over the top. Though I haven't read his war stories comics (that's him right?).
big-doze
06-25-2007, 05:33 AM
River City Ransom by Brubaker.
Kid Icarus by the guy who does Franklin Richards: Son of a Genius.
Conker's Bad Fur Day by Ennis.
NiGHTS by David Mack.
six-gun
06-25-2007, 05:43 AM
True, and perhaps that's why Ennis isn't right. He's so over the top. Though I haven't read his war stories comics (that's him right?).
Yeah, that's the Ennis that I want for Recon
esophagus
06-25-2007, 06:14 AM
Why have none of these ideas happened, yet Sonic is still going?
labor_days
06-25-2007, 06:56 AM
Fallout, written by Brian Wood/art by Ben Templesmith.
esophagus
06-25-2007, 07:26 AM
Frogger, written by Warren Ellis, with art by Andy Kubert.
Pacman, written by Neil Gaiman. "If there was no one to believe in Blinky, he wouldn't be such a force to be reckoned with."
six-gun
06-25-2007, 01:35 PM
Fallout, written by Brian Wood/art by Ben Templesmith.
Awesome, I was trying to think of a Fallout team!
The more I think of that Ennis/Lee Ghost Recon the more my soul needs it.
kwok_talk
06-26-2007, 02:49 AM
Ninja Gaiden by Jim Cheung
Bubble Bobble by Takeshi Miyazawa (SM loves MJ)
Super Mario 2 by Skottie Young
Planet Puzzle League by Grant Morrison
six-gun
06-26-2007, 04:09 AM
Crackdown written by Robert Kirkman
not sure of an artist
mister-s
06-26-2007, 04:31 AM
Hmm...
God of War - Rucka/Hitch
Shadow of the Colussus - Fraction/Humberto Ramos
Resident Evil - Mignola/Guy Davis
Ninja Gaiden - Frank Miller (I just read Ronin for the first time)
Metroid - Simone/Jim Lee
This thread delivers. Brought me back from the ether...
esophagus
06-26-2007, 04:47 AM
X-Box's Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Written by Joss Whedon with art by Georges Jeanty.
labor_days
06-26-2007, 05:24 AM
Hmm...
God of War - Rucka/Hitch
I wish I could buy such a comic, right now. How empty my life has suddenly become.