Assassin's Creed: Locus Vol. 1

Assassin's Creed Comics #6

by Ian Edginton, Caspar Wijngaard (Illustrator), Triona Farrell (Illustrator)

Official tie-in comic to the Scholastic novels, The Last Descendants. Collect Assassin's Locus #1-4.

Genres: Graphic Novels

114 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 10, 2017

About the author

Edginton sees part of the key to his success coming from good relationships with artists, especially D'Israeli and Steve Yeowell as well as Steve Pugh and Mike Collins. He is best known for his steampunk/alternative history work (often with the artist D'Israeli) and is the co-creator of Scarlet Traces, a sequel to their adaptation of H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds. With 2000 AD we has written Leviathan, Stickleback and, with art by Steve Yeowell, The Red Seas as well as one-off serials such as American Gothic (2005).

His stories often have a torturous gestation. Scarlet Traces was an idea he had when first reading The War of the Worlds, its first few instalments appeared on Cool Beans website, before being serialised in the Judge Dredd Megazine. Also The Red Seas was initially going to be drawn by Phil Winslade and be the final release by Epic but Winslade was still tied up with Goddess and when ideas for replacement artists were rejected Epic was finally wound up - the series only re-emerging when Edginton was pitching ideas to Matt Smith at the start of his 2000 AD career.

With D'Israeli he has created a number of new series including Stickleback, a tale of a strange villain in an alternative Victorian London, and Gothic, which he describes as "Mary Shelley's Doc Savage". With Simon Davis he recently worked on a survival horror series, Stone Island, and he has also produced a comic version of the computer game Hellgate: London with Steve Pugh.

He is currently working on a dinosaurs and cowboys story called Sixgun Logic. Also as part of Top Cow's Pilot Season he has written an Angelus one-shot.

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Reviews

[Kira · Rating 2 out of 5]

I love the Assassin's Creed universe and the art style in this graphic novel was great, the story was just lacklustre and basic.

[47Time · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is the best AC story I've read so far. It even features Evie Frye from the AC Syndicate game and Mark Twain. That's gold right there.

Sean is one of the subjects used by the templars to discover the lost Pieces of Eden which can be used to control humanity. He relives the memories of Tommy Greyling, a Pinkerton agent, as he investigates the assassination attempts on Horace Greeley's life. The latter is a target for, he suspects, the Grant administration working with the templars. Tommy will come into contact with the assassin cell in London and a templar who is always a step ahead.

Tommy and his allies get surrounded by London gangsters that are led by the templar calling herself Alice who tried to kill Horace, but hold their own. The templar captures a man who has the next clue. Tommy catches up to Alice, but she gets away again, now with an important scroll as well. Tommy catches up to her one final time on the ship back to the US. Rather than allow the scroll to fall in assassin hands, Alice throws it into the sea. Then jumps overboard.

Back in the present, Sean is able to recover quickly from his trauma resulted from the Animus thanks to his friends. Their Abstergo handler, who is working for the templars, has more work in store for all of them.