Max Payne 3 Issue #2: "Hoboken Blues"

by Dan Houser, Sam Baer

"Hoboken Blues" is the second chapter in the Max Payne 3 comic series. Written by Dan Houser and Remedy's Sam Lake, and featuring cover art by Jorge Molina with pencils and inks by Fernando Blanco, "Hoboken Blues" is loaded with flashbacks to Max's past that help to explain how and why he's at where he's at in Max Payne 3, including the fallout from his actions in Max Payne 2 that led to him becoming a semi-permanent fixture at a dive bar on the other side of the Hudson.

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels, Action

14 pages, Graphic Novel

First published June 18, 2012

About the author

Dan Houser is an English video game producer and vice president (along with his brother Sam) of creativity for Rockstar Games. As well as producing video games, Houser has written for all but one of the Grand Theft Auto III-era games, along with other Rockstar-produced video games.

Reviews

[Afkham · Rating 4 out of 5]

"... all high on coke, or E, or roids, or hairspray, or themselves, it was hard to tell which."

[Cristian Marrero · Rating 3 out of 5]

More of the same from issue #1. Extension into his life and how it is finally at his present moment.