Metal Gear Solid 2 Comic coming this month!

[Otty]

Metal Gear Solid stormed the comic world last year, helped in part by artwork courtesy of fan-favorite Ashley Wood. Now Wood is back for more with the all-new MGS series, Metal Gear Solid: Sons of Liberty. Writer Alex Garner (CVO) teams with Wood for this latest installment of Konami's successful video game series.

Four years have passed since FoxHound hero Solid Snake saved the day on Shadow Moses Island. Now a new terrorist organization known as Dead Cell has hijacked the environmental cleanup facility known as the Big Shell, as well as taking the President of the United States hostage. Now Foxhound agent Raiden must join forces with the enigmatic Navy Seal known as Pliskin in order to rescue the President and neutralize Dead Cell, whose leader is rumored to be none other than Solid Snake himself.

"Forget what you know or thought you knew about Metal Gear Solid 2," writer Alex Garner exclaimed. "Whether you've ever played the video game or not, this is Sons of Liberty told in a way never seen before, with a ton of new scenes and much more of fan-favorite Solid Snake."

Metal Gear Solid: Sons of Liberty #1, a full-color 32-page issue, debuts in October.


Source www.ugo.com

[The Dumpster Keeper]

Ew. The MGS comic was terrible, the best we can expect from this one, if the the first was any hint, is a travesty.

[A.G.]

I really fail to see the point of this. I mean, if the comics offered a new storyline, sure, that would work. But all we get is a rehashing of the same old stuff. And it is far more fun to play that story than read about it in a comic book.

You want a new medium? Get a good writer and put out a novel. Not cheesy-arwork comics.

[ipoder]

I hope Alex Garner is right. Because if he's not: Screw the comics.

[thenephilim]

If the MGS2 comic follows Raiden, this is nothing to have. The complex purpose of having Raiden in MGS2 would be gone with the wind in a comic. It wouldn't work as a movie or a novel either. It would have to be an interactive medium in order to be able to tell the story of Raiden the way it should be told.

But it would be possible to present the SoL-story if they followed Snake. That way it would at least be partly new storyline.