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No one is going grrgoons. To be honest you could pull the names of the main characters and alliance names out and replace them with fictional ones and everyone would still be expressing the same disappointment in the True Stories comics. Which is funny saying that because there is more fictional about the story than truth. Should be Based on True Stories.

Regarding this specific comic, an issue I had was the switching artists before I had a firm grasp of who the characters were. The identifying features of each characters weren't consistent across artists, which made reading each successive release more difficult than it should have been.

The bigger issue was the actual story component. I've read most of the eve chronicles and have come to expect a certain level of quality and depth from the eve lore. Although it was 'interesting' to see how Mittens spun his story, the plot was simplistic and had no surprises. It lacked the depth and connection to the greater eve lore that many of the chronicles have. I would much rather adapt eve chronicles to the comic format, or create original stories that better fit the medium. Imagine Jita 4-4 , with its richness of setting, in comic book format.

One of the greatest problems with player stories is the "eve is a game about spaceships" mentality. This is a fine philosophy for game design, but it means the players are always in the context of spaceships. Not only will this means players obsessing over the minutia of the ship representations, but we lack the ability to do anything unique or meaningful whilst walking around. Players interact with this world via their ships, any major or pivotal events are going to involve spaceships, likely a whole ton of em. We don't have much on the non spaceship side besides silly politicking, which just doesn't lend itself to a comic medium. How much of the same boardroom or station interior can you take? I fear that any player story, simply because of the context of the eve player, will revolve around boring station interiors (bad for comics) punctuated by ship combat (difficult to represent).

I liked it

Please go back to doing biweekly chronicles instead. If you need extra income get those printed instead of some stupid comics that most players are too old to give a toss about.

If you want to appeal to EVE players then you have to be more faithful to actual events and mechanics, if you want to appeal to non-players then you can't write the story in a way that is confusing even if you are a player and have read half a dozen accounts of the events already.

The idea of EVE comic books is sound imho and has great potential as a gateway into the EVE universe but the execution of this series was really lacking.

I realize the story picked was hard to adapt to a comic book (especially because most of the backstory is what makes it so great). However, I think it wasn't well plotted even given that handicap and that made it so that it was extremely hard to follow at times, even though I know all of the background. This was made worse by the different artists so people constantly looked different.

Much of the art was fantastic. I agree the third guy was the best. But you really can't have switching like this with characters that aren't instantly recognizable to the audience.

Most of the people complaining it was about goonswarm are an extremely small, vocal, disdale-like minority. You're always going to have way more interest in things that happened - even from the people it happened to, so they can see themselves in print and grr themselves into a tizzy.

Dull as ****.

Not the stories themselves. But the art and how the stories was reinterpreted to make it fit a comic format really put me off.

I felt like it was too different from EVE but at the same time relied heavily on knowing about EVE.

Like others said, i think chronicles would be a more interesting adaptation.

While I loved being in the comics and having 'our story' win, there were a number of problems. The biggest problem was the word limit on the original submission; it was impossible to write the story in any real way with ~1000 words, and so it only showed a tiny slice of the Great War. There was no before or after; no years of grudge-war culminating in Goonswarm abandoning half the galaxy to invade and burn BoB after the disbanding. This is perhaps my fault - if I was a better writer, I could have condensed more material into the original submission, but I doubt it. The Great War isn't the kind of thing you can give proper context to in 1k words.

The writing of the comic was often cringeworthy. The only character I 'recognized' was Tamir Lenk, who was appropriately cast as a grandiose narcissist. Haargoth was 'some drunk', and my own character seemed to be alternatively an arch manipulator of fearsome intelligence who also seems to consider 'DUMBASS LOL' the height of wit.

I thought the concept of alts being jump clones helped make the story more sensible, at least. That was a useful innovation to handle multiple characters being run by the same player.

Multiple artists is bad in most comic series. Multiple artists of varied, sometimes subpar quality makes things even worse. The first few pages of each comic seem to be a game of "Ok, Haargoth is the bald guy with a beard, Mittens has a goatee but can be a fat Asian man or have blond hair and blue eyes, Tamir has an Eyepatch, and Kasimir is completely generic and changes every issue." The third issue was the best in having a more 'clean and traditional style, the last issue was the worst in quality.

tl;dr: it's really cool to be in comics, and I hope there's more of these with a better writer and consistent art. But the word limit on the True Stories submission process was a huge screw-up and I think that's reflected in the total lack of context for the story.

Why'd have swear words in the script and then censor them out with stars