I have vague memories of the comics coming with the 2600 games. Later on I discovered the DC full size 20 issue run. I think I have all but 2 of those. The comics were surprisingly good, I thought. I am not a big comics fan myself but I enjoyed them.
I was interested to see the new Atari continuing this tradition of comics. They released a small series based on Centipede and they had a comic for Yars Rising that fleshed out the story and world a little more.
This sounds like a job for Chris from Comic Tropes or Casually Comics' Sasha (neither list their last names on their YouTube page or other social media)!
They've both talked about commercial tie-ins done by both DC and Marvel—and this at least suggests DC threw some top-tier talent at the project like Gerry Conway (AMAZING SPIDER-MAN, THE PUNISHER, JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA), Roy Thomas (CONAN THE BARBARIAN, RED SONJA, LUKE CAGE, IRON FIST, SECRET ORIGINS), and the late Gil Kane illustrating (Hal Jordan's Green Lantern, TEEN TITANS, Silver Age Atom, Silver Age Plastic Man, and the AMAZING SPIDER-MAN's anti-drug arc in ASM issues 96-98).
I admit, I'm impressed by how multicultural Atari Force is, given it's 1982—sure the Captain's a Straight(?) White Male, but he's got a female XO as well as a female East Asian/Irish Security Chief, a Black ship's doctor, and a South Asian Engineer(!).
I have vague memories of the comics coming with the 2600 games. Later on I discovered the DC full size 20 issue run. I think I have all but 2 of those. The comics were surprisingly good, I thought. I am not a big comics fan myself but I enjoyed them.
I was interested to see the new Atari continuing this tradition of comics. They released a small series based on Centipede and they had a comic for Yars Rising that fleshed out the story and world a little more.
I have Vol. 1, No. 1 stowed away somewhere. Thanks for the reminder to dig it out.
This sounds like a job for Chris from Comic Tropes or Casually Comics' Sasha (neither list their last names on their YouTube page or other social media)!
They've both talked about commercial tie-ins done by both DC and Marvel—and this at least suggests DC threw some top-tier talent at the project like Gerry Conway (AMAZING SPIDER-MAN, THE PUNISHER, JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA), Roy Thomas (CONAN THE BARBARIAN, RED SONJA, LUKE CAGE, IRON FIST, SECRET ORIGINS), and the late Gil Kane illustrating (Hal Jordan's Green Lantern, TEEN TITANS, Silver Age Atom, Silver Age Plastic Man, and the AMAZING SPIDER-MAN's anti-drug arc in ASM issues 96-98).
I admit, I'm impressed by how multicultural Atari Force is, given it's 1982—sure the Captain's a Straight(?) White Male, but he's got a female XO as well as a female East Asian/Irish Security Chief, a Black ship's doctor, and a South Asian Engineer(!).