Written by Alex Paknadel, Dan Watters | Art by Jose Holder | Published by Titan Comics
With all the great stuff out there on the shelves at the moment, even the great stuff being put out by Titan Comics alone, this title has fallen a little under the radar. Although I wouldn’t put it at the very top of my reading pile, it is consistently a solid, entertaining read. Paknadel and Watters take the best elements of the games and mythology, fuse them with their own ideas, and create a book that while being wholly true to the Assassin’s Creed brand is definitely its own creature.
So to date we now know that the followers of Juno, known as The Instruments of the First Will, are trying to bring about a New World Order by destroying everything. That means destroying both the Templars and the Assassins, and both groups have...
With all the great stuff out there on the shelves at the moment, even the great stuff being put out by Titan Comics alone, this title has fallen a little under the radar. Although I wouldn’t put it at the very top of my reading pile, it is consistently a solid, entertaining read. Paknadel and Watters take the best elements of the games and mythology, fuse them with their own ideas, and create a book that while being wholly true to the Assassin’s Creed brand is definitely its own creature.
So to date we now know that the followers of Juno, known as The Instruments of the First Will, are trying to bring about a New World Order by destroying everything. That means destroying both the Templars and the Assassins, and both groups have...
- 10/16/2017
- by Dean Fuller
- Nerdly
Written by Alex Paknadel, Dan Watters | Art by Jose Holder | Published by Titan Comics
I’ve ended up liking this book more than I initially thought I would do. Although not a total Assassin’s Creed fan boy I do have most the games, and enjoy pretty much all of them, and their strength has, for me, been their non-action approach. Although fighting is still a big part, stealth and sneakiness are even bigger. Assassin’s Creed: Uprising has not only taken the action approach, but double downed on it. That approach, which initially jarred a little, has started to work really well as it is combined with existing Assassins mythology, and new wrinkles such as the Black Cross and the new Assassins/Templar hybrid followers of Juno faction. The more these pieces come together, the better the book gets.
Last issue of course was mostly taken up with the...
I’ve ended up liking this book more than I initially thought I would do. Although not a total Assassin’s Creed fan boy I do have most the games, and enjoy pretty much all of them, and their strength has, for me, been their non-action approach. Although fighting is still a big part, stealth and sneakiness are even bigger. Assassin’s Creed: Uprising has not only taken the action approach, but double downed on it. That approach, which initially jarred a little, has started to work really well as it is combined with existing Assassins mythology, and new wrinkles such as the Black Cross and the new Assassins/Templar hybrid followers of Juno faction. The more these pieces come together, the better the book gets.
Last issue of course was mostly taken up with the...
- 8/11/2017
- by Dean Fuller
- Nerdly
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