Funnybooks: Video Game-to-Comics Adaptations Edition

December 1, 2024 6:02 AM

The 10 Best Comics That Are Based On Video Games. 10 Comic Books Based On Hit Video Games Worth Reading. Short on time? Try The 8 Best Comic Books Based On Video Games. Decide you do have time? Try the 10 Video Game-Based Comics That Are Actually Worth Reading. Really have quite a bit of time? Check out Wikipedia's List Of Comics Based On Video Games (which has a lot of comic-book-character-adapted-to-a-video-game-and-then-made-back-into-a-comic book).

Recent related research:

Backe, Hans-Joachim. "Game-comics and comic-games: Against the concept of hybrids." Comics and Videogames. Routledge, 2020. 60-83.

posted by cupcakeninja (5 comments total)

And on the opposite end of the spectrum, we have Malibu's 1993 Street Fighter comic, which was so awful that Capcom pulled the license after only three issues.
posted by Faint of Butt at 9:51 AM on December 1, 2024 [1 favorite]

I see you "comics based on games" and raise you "game based on comics (the idea, not a specific comic)": Sega's Comix Zone
posted by symbioid at 10:38 AM on December 1, 2024 [2 favorites]

"game based on comics, the idea" also includes Accolade's Comics, which is probably a lot better to play on an emulator than with the super-sluggish c64 disc drive.
posted by egypturnash at 11:01 AM on December 1, 2024 [2 favorites]

Oh oh - and back to comics about games. Again not necessarily a particular game, but heavily inspired by Mario in concept (if not visually).

Nth Man issue 10 is all about our hero John Doe getting teleported by Alfie O'Meaghan into a video game (called "Alfie's Quest TM"; though I misread as "Alfie's Guest" which also fits, especially since Alfie is a narcissist and be-all and end-all of his own little universe mentally, so it would make sense as Guest, but...)

Here's a few pages:
Page 1
Page 19
Page 29

Also, I think that Bloodborne comic in OP looks super interesting... Time to check that out I guess!
posted by symbioid at 11:01 AM on December 1, 2024 [1 favorite]

I'd probably have gotten the Mass Effect comics, except that a) the art can be really bad, and b) several of them feature Kai Leng, probably everyone's least favorite character from the original trilogy, given some of the most blatant plot armor that I've ever seen in a game.
posted by Halloween Jack at 11:34 AM on December 1, 2024