Overwatch online comics series#
The comic series is published in cooperation with Dark Horse Comics, who republish the series on their own digital comic service. This issue, as well as all subsequent issues of the comic title, were initially published and made freely available to download on. On April 21, 2016, Train Hopper, headlining the cowboy character McCree, became the first Overwatch comic title released by Blizzard. First Strike was later revealed to have a November 2016 digital release, in addition to an April 2017 hardcover release. Like if we do a comic, comics are better for telling certain types of stories," adding, "we really decide what kind of story we want to tell, what's the story that we're going to tell, and then it's all about, lets figure out the best way to do this." Publication history īlizzard announced they would release six digital comics prior to the game's release, in addition to a graphic novel titled Overwatch: First Strike, set for a release later in 2016. We decide which ones we feel are the most exciting or make sense for the present. We had to think about other things, and we knew from day one that we wanted to make a significant Overwatch universe." Chu has also elaborated on how Blizzard decides which stories to tell through a comic format, stating, "every time we approach a story, very much like the skins, we have this backlog of story ideas, and hooks that we'd like to explore. On the approach to the storytelling, senior game designer Michael Chu, stated, "it was a solution that was born out of the kind of game we were making, because multiplayer shooter, obviously usually doesn't have a linear story.
Instead, Blizzard opted to develop the story and lore of the Overwatch universe through a transmedia storytelling method, including animated shorts and comic titles. Blizzard did not include a traditional campaign or story mode in the Overwatch video game.
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