Hawken: Genesis #1

Hawken: Genesis #1

by Jeremy Barlow, Khang Le, Francisco Ruiz Velasco (Illustrator)

Arriving March 2013 as a full-length original graphic novel from Archaia Entertainment, HAWKEN: GENESIS will establish and explore the exciting world of Illal, the planet on which the Hawken video game takes place. Developed alongside the game's Creative Director and lead conceptual designer, Khang Le (Project Offset, Flight) of Adhesive Games, HAWKEN: GENESIS will feature work from some of the top conceptual artists, comic illustrators, and painters in the industry, serving as both prequel and sourcebook to the epic warfare players will experience firsthand in the game. Readers of this OGN will be exposed to the vast mythology behind this visually stunning, post-apocalyptic world and the pivotal few individuals who determined its fate. The first exclusive comiXology preview, "Prelude to Ruin," is written by Jeremy Barlow (*Mass Effect*, *Star Wars*) and illustrated by Francisco Ruiz Velasco (concept artist on *Hellboy 2*, *Pacific Rim*, and *The Hobbit*).

Genres: Comics, Ebooks

9 pages, ebook

First published December 14, 2012

About the author

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Reviews

[Luke Burrage · Rating 2 out of 5]

Free comic!

I'm not surprised that this was free. It's like a collection of spare concept art for the video game of mechas fighting with sentences of back story laid over the top. I'd have preferred to see images from actual story being told, as I've seen videos from the video game, so I already know what that bit looks like, and without any human characters to identify with, I'm as uninterested in the action as in any video game I'm not personally playing.

Looked pretty though.

[Periklis · Rating 2 out of 5]

A good introduction to the comics adaptation of the Massive Multiplayer Online game and a digital appetizer for the graphic novel. It was distributed freely, on Comixology.
The setting is not very original, heavily borrowing from both Dune and Ronin, but the artwork will compensate any military SF fan.

[Shahad · Rating 3 out of 5]

I did it for the concept art.