The series is written by and created by Cameron Stewart and Karl Kerschl, the new comic book series was initially going to be an expansion of the travels of Ezio Auditore da Firenze, from assassins creed 2 game, But was moved to an entirely new setting to provide greater freedom to the writers. However the stroy still follows the battle between Templars and Assassins.
The comic was released on November 10th 2010 a few days before the release of Assassins Creed Brotherhood.
Writer: Cameron Stewart, Karl Kerschl
Artists: Cameron Stewart, Karl Kerschl
Colorist: Nadine Thomas
Editors: Studio Lounak's, serge Lapointe
Information about the artists
Cameron Stewart:
Stewart is a Canadian Writer and artist in comics, best known for his work on Catwoman and also Batman and robin, seaguy and seven soldiers: The manhattan guardian, and the other side.
Interview: http://mindlessones.com/2009/04/09/13-questions-with-cameron-stewart/
Karl Kerschl:
karl was born in Toronto and attended the Ontario College of Art for a year before deciding to practice by himself, discovering and improving his techniques on story telling and drawing styles.
ON June 20, 2007 Kerschl began the webcomic The Abominable Charles Christopher as part of the transmission X comics collective.
Link to interview: http://www.comicfoundry.com/index.php/wfsection/article.php?articleid=166
Inspiration
Inspiration for the comic came from the book The Manchurian Candidate by Richard Condon. The main character is brainwashed by the Communist party to act as their sleeper agent, acting on their orders whnever he sees the queen of diamonds playing card. In The fall, Abstergo programmed Daniel Cross to kill the mentor when in the opportune moment. The next installment, Assassins Creed: The Chain will continue the stories of Daniel Cross and Nikolai Orelev.
Pictures of the comic:
I think the work is very interesting and I really like how they have kept the style of the way the Assassin looks. It allows the reader to instantly know who the assassin is ( if they are familiar with Assassins Creed). I also like the fact that they have continued the story with assassins creed because, I really like the games and was a little sad that there slowly coming to an end. Maybe now that they have released another story line they may continue to make the games. Although I don't really like the fact its set in Russia, but you could tell it was an Assassins Creed comic just by looking at it.
I like the colours used in comic, like the original colours for the assassin, the image on the right almost makes it look a little japanese by the colours and the way they've drawn the image. I like on the front cover how they've kept the original colours from the games like red, black and white. I think these colours symbolise Assassins Creed. Again I like in the front cover that the assassin is shown on a rooftop, on what seems like a holy spot. It makes it look like the assassins creed games where you would ofton have to clim to 'view points' to get a clear surrounding of the area.
