Metal Gear Solid Gets All Comic

Thanks to Comic Book Resources for its article discussing the new Metal Gear Solid comic book series, launching this September from IDW Publishing. According to writer Kris Oprisko, the Ashley Wood-illustrated comic "follows the story line of the original game, in which Snake must infiltrate an Alaskan island overrun by a genetically-enhanced terrorist group. His mission: to find and rescue two hostages as well as ending the terrorist threat - a threat that includes the specter of a nuclear strike." Wood, who has "previously done some work for Konami on their Contra video game", provides an interesting visual take on Solid Snake, and elsewhere, IDW President Ted Adams reveals that "CVO [Covert Vampiric Operations] is being developed by Konami as a video game."

Comments

solid snake?

[Xoo]

If you've played Metal Gear Solid 2: SoL...
here's a fitting quote: "No! That is NOT Solid Snake!"

While I do appreciate different artistic styles, this is so radically different than Yogi Shinkawa's artistic style that it might turn some people away from the comic...

then again, fanboys will be fanboys ;-)

Artwork? or....

[LGagnon]

The artwork doesn't look too different from the recent games. In fact, it's so close that I couldn't help but think that they might have just took screenshots of the game and blurred them in Photoshop (or maybe The GIMP - can't say for sure what they use :) ).

In my restless dreams, I see that town-Silent Hill

[Channard]

Well, the company has done pretty well with the Silent Hill comics - 'Dying Inside'. The first two were superb, and stood alone as a story and the other two, while being a tad goth-heavy are pretty good as well.