There's really nothing in here for anyone who isn't a Mass Effect fan, and it's essentially required reading for those who are. The writing throughout is pretty good, but not extraordinary, or as good in my opinion as the games they link to. Inquisition is more interesting, in that it explains what happened to Executor Pallin between the first two games. Not much to say, since it's just one scene of action. Incursion is a brief episode in the life of Omega, featuring Aria repelling a Collector invasion. Not exactly the smoothest of transitions.Īs a bonus, the trade threw in Incursion and Inquisition, incredibly short comics that were originally released online. On one page, IM is in charge of an apparently very small band of human mercs, the next he's in charge of Cerberus, and seemingly always has been. I expected something like this, but not set so long before the start of the games.) It still doesn't really explain where Cerberus came from, or how it got to be as rich and powerful as it is at the start of ME2. Set just after the First Contact War with the turians, Evolution gives us a canonical name for the Illusive Man and explains where those eyes came from. Sort of, because a lot is still left unanswered. Originally published as a 4 issue miniseries, Evolution is a sort of origin story for the Illusive Man. (I've actually read this one already and liked it a lot. I'm sticking to the plan and do this chronologically. So is going by order of publication the preferred method here? For this comic, yes. So at this point in time I'm thinking that someone will get more out of this comic if that someone has already played ME2 or ME3. I especially enjoyed coming back to Illium.
What made me enjoy this a lot more than my usual three star read is that very nice feeling of coming home that prequels sometimes provide. And Jack is in the middle of it all.Īn okay story, that could have been a little longer. On Shanxi an ancient artifact is found and the humans and turians are tangling over it, without either of them knowing exactly what it is for. The year is 2157 and we join Jack and his crew of two in the middle of the First Contact War with the turians. This comic tells the origin story of the Illusive Man (a.k.a. And while Goodreads says this is the second comic book, the timeline I’m going by says it’s the first, chronologically. Now, I’m trying to do this from the beginning. It was always clear I would come back to the series one day.
But in the past I loved ME2 and enjoyed some of the books as well.
I haven’t played or read anything from the Mass Effect universe for a few years. Welcome to my long term cross-media project!
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