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[GodWood]

So I'm the only one who can't actually get the pages to work?

[KenLyns]

Ben Hislop, co-founder of Cord-Hislop Aerospace, the front corporation for Cerberus?

There is no continuity error with the grenade launcher. The codex entry says "M-100 proponents counter that the weapon has a fifty-year track record in reliably accepting kludge ammo." So the weapon was around during the First Contact War.

Continuity error: the M35 Mako shouldn't exist yet at the time. The M29 Grizzly should have been there instead. Ahern's mission on Pinnacle Station even had a M29 Grizzly.

Modifié par KenLyns, 30 décembre 2010 - 11:01 .

[Remus Artega]

KenLyns wrote...

Ben Hislop, co-founder of Cord-Hislop Aerospace, the front corporation for Cerberus?

Continuity error: the M35 Mako shouldn't exist yet at the time of the First Contact War. The M29 Grizzly should have been there instead. Ahern's mission on Pinnacle Station even had a M29 Grizzly.

So many plotholes on 5 pages of comic...can't imagine ME3 

[DirtyVagrant]

KenLyns wrote...
Continuity error: the M35 Mako shouldn't exist yet at the time. The M29 Grizzly should have been there instead. Ahern's mission on Pinnacle Station even had a M29 Grizzly.

Where are you getting the date that shows that? I can't find the date on when the Mako was first made and put into service.

[Mars Nova]

I dig it.  Two concerns, though:

1-Why do the guns look like they're firing laser beams?  This isn't Star Wars.  Not that there's anything wrong with Star Wars, but the laser beams just seem out of place here.

2-I really hope Jack Harper ends up being a pseudonym and we never learn TIM's real name.  Exploring some of his backstory is fine, but certain things should remain illusive.  His real name is one of them.

Also, I'm  calling it now.  That turian they've taken prisoner is Saren's brother.

[KenLyns]

DirtyVagrant wrote...
Where are you getting the date that shows that? I can't find the date on when the Mako was first made and put into service.

There is no hard date published by Bioware. However, the articles indicate the M35 came a while after the M29 was deployed. Certainly the Alliance marines in UNC: Missing Marines still used a M29 Grizzly. 

[They call me a SpaceCowboy]

Alienmorph wrote...

Kronner wrote...

Alienmorph wrote...

What do you have agains comics?

Nothing at all, I just find books to be much better at telling stories. In addition, all these Darkhorse comics make characters I know from the game look completly different.

I see... I can agree about the characterizations messed up (Liara is a clear example of that).

Mr. MannlyMan wrote...

Anybody notice that Ben (Jack's friend) resembles Big Ben, from the ME3 teaser?

I
mean, the fact that he's also named "Ben" can't be coincidence, can it?
Maybe the marketing department is giving us our first glimpse of a new
character?

Coincidence. Unless you think that Sniper Ben didn't age in the 25-30 years between First Contact War and Reaper's Invasion.

That and 'Big Ben' was a fan-given name. We don't know the snipers actual name.

[Zurcior]

KenLyns wrote...

DirtyVagrant wrote...
Where are you getting the date that shows that? I can't find the date on when the Mako was first made and put into service.

There is no hard date published by Bioware. However, the articles indicate the M35 came a while after the M29 was deployed. Certainly the Alliance marines in UNC: Missing Marines still used a M29 Grizzly. 

 That doesn't mean the Mako was deployed recently. Could it be that the Alliance uses both vehicles.

[Gibb_Shepard]

Also, in the comic TIM says to Ben that if he wanted to just kill turians he should join the Alliance. Wasn't Cerberus a part of the Alliance at that point in time? So they were actually working for the Alliance? Meaning that statement is a bit.... wierd?

[PARAGON87]

Now I have a question, there's two covers, the Massimo Carnevale cover, and the standard one featuring the Illusive Man (by Joe Quinones).  Which one will be the actual cover when the comic is released?

It looks like the Carnevale cover is a limited-edition issue of the comic, or am I mistaken?

Really I haven't seen any clarification of this.

EDIT:  It looks like there's two editions of the comics per release

www.tfaw.com/Search

I guess that the Carnevale cover is a limited-print version, since it's of better quality with the same price.

Modifié par PARAGON87, 31 décembre 2010 - 02:08 .

[Count Viceroy]

I was right about him being in the 1st contact war. Hurrah. :happy:

[Dr. Doctor]

I find it almost ironic that TIM's actual name is Jack.

[KenLyns]

Gibb_Shepard wrote...
Also, in the comic TIM says to Ben that if he wanted to just kill turians he should join the Alliance. Wasn't Cerberus a part of the Alliance at that point in time? So they were actually working for the Alliance? Meaning that statement is a bit.... wierd?

Cerberus didn't exist at the time. According to the Wiki entry, the name Illusive Man wasn't coined until some time after the war.

On another note, wonder who it is on the alternate Vol. 3 cover?
Is that a shield belt on her hip, or an Iron Man reactor?

Modifié par KenLyns, 31 décembre 2010 - 03:38 .

[didymos1120]

KenLyns wrote...
Cerberus didn't exist at the time. According to the Wiki entry, the name Illusive Man wasn't coined until some time after the war.

It says that in the Cerberus Codex entry too:

Immediately following the First Contact War, an anonymous extranet manifesto warned that an alien attempt at human genocide was inevitable. The manifesto called for an army - a Cerberus to guard against invasion through the Charon relay.

Derided as "survivalist rhetoric written by an illusive man", the manifesto and its anonymous author soon fell off the media radar. But in 2165, terrorists stole antimatter from the SSV Geneva, the sole figure arrested named his sponsor "Cerberus". Throughout the 2160s and 2170s, alleged Cerberus agents assassinated politicians, sabotaged starships bearing eezo, and conducted nightmarish experiments on aliens and humans. Denounced as human-supremacist, Cerberus calls itself human-survivalist.

Counterterror experts speculate Cerberus may have changed leadership with it recent shift to stockpiling ships, agents, and weapons. Whether "he", "she", or "they", the Illusive Man hides his finances behind shell companies. Few doubt he will kill anyone attempting to expose him.

[Masterchef601]

Mars Nova wrote...
Also, I'm  calling it now.  That turian they've taken prisoner is Saren's brother.

Look at the cover for issue 2... It may well be Saren.

[Fiery Phoenix]

Khayness wrote...

State of the art ME2 weaponry, awesome.

Wonder if they are going to pop thermal clips for coolness factor.

I've counted three plotholes now. Or at least, unexplained bits.

[HBC Dresden]

KenLyns wrote...

Gibb_Shepard wrote...
Also, in the comic TIM says to Ben that if he wanted to just kill turians he should join the Alliance. Wasn't Cerberus a part of the Alliance at that point in time? So they were actually working for the Alliance? Meaning that statement is a bit.... wierd?

Cerberus didn't exist at the time. According to the Wiki entry, the name Illusive Man wasn't coined until some time after the war.

On another note, wonder who it is on the alternate Vol. 3 cover?
Is that a shield belt on her hip, or an Iron Man reactor?

She looks like Eva, or whatever her name was, in 4th/5th page of the preview fighting the turians with TIM I mean Jack Harper.

[KenLyns]

HBC Dresden wrote...
She looks like Eva, or whatever her name was, in 4th/5th page of the preview fighting the turians with TIM I mean Jack Harper.

Thanks. And from the front her belt really looks like a shield belt.

[MajFauxPas]

Tasi Nedas wrote...

Not just any turian either, that looks like Saren! He was the only one with the long side parts on his head fringe.          It could be Saren's brother though, the unique headfringe might be a family trait.

I thought it was Saren vs Anderson at the colony? So if it's Saren, which I agree it does look like, then where is Anderson?

[mcneil_1]

Grumble all these comics keep on changing things in the ME universe (I wonder how much of ME universe will now be retconned ) and the art style is the same as the last dozen or so star wars comic series <_<

[solomon_w]

Anderson didn't meet Saren in the First Contact War.

[WilliamShatner]

Chris Priestly wrote...

Mass Effect 3's Lead Writer Mac Walters

[Indiana Jones]Aw sh..[/Indiana Jones]

If I did such a bad job on my last project I would have got the boot! 

[Babli]

WilliamShatner wrote...

Chris Priestly wrote...

Mass Effect 3's Lead Writer Mac Walters

[Indiana Jones]Aw sh..[/Indiana Jones]

If I did such a bad job on my last project I would have got the boot! 

QFT. Let´s prepare for plot holes and cool comics stuff. And people are gonna running completely naked in vacuum this time.

...and explosions!

Why isnt Drew Karpyshyn lead writer anymore?

[Zaxares]

I look forward to learning more about the Illusive Man's past, of course, and how he became the person he is today, but...



1. How on earth are the humans and turians understanding each other? The opening paragraph suggests that this is taking place during the First Contact War, which means that the two species have only JUST met. There wouldn't be time for the translator devices to be uploaded with proper languages translations from both races. For that matter, how do they even know what each other's race is called??



2. The guns seem to be firing laser beams... A bit offputting, but it could be chalked up to people using incendiary ammo, I guess. You get a similar looking effect in ME2.



3. Anybody else noticed that the turian they captured has two extra fringes on his skull? Similar to Saren's? I wonder if that IS Saren... Or whether it's simply another turian with the same physical appearance.

[mcneil_1]

Babli wrote...

WilliamShatner wrote...

Chris Priestly wrote...

Mass Effect 3's Lead Writer Mac Walters

[Indiana Jones]Aw sh..[/Indiana Jones]

If I did such a bad job on my last project I would have got the boot! 

QFT. Let´s prepare for plot holes and cool comics stuff. And people are gonna running completely naked in vacuum this time.

...and explosions!

Why isnt Drew Karpyshyn lead writer anymore?

I think Someone mentioned Drew is writing for The Old Republic.
But this would explain why the story/plot for ME2 is really off the beaten track