Assassin’s Creed Sneaks Its Way From Video Games Into Comic Books

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The hugely successful Assassins’ Creed franchise has been a huge hit on game consoles, with its mix of stealth, strategy and visceral combat. Part of what work in the series has been the ability to place its fiction in a myriad of historical time period. The first game had players controlling Altair in medieval Jerusalem and last year’s Assassins’ Creed II gave us Ezio in the Italian Renaissance. Now the next time period appears to be revealed in the form of a teaser trailer that publisher Ubisoft released today.

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aNow it seems the latest Assassins tale will unfold in analog form as the French publisher’s annaounced that they’re bringing the time-hopping Assassins Creed DNA to comic books. Ubi’s has enlisted some top-shelf artistic talent to bring it to life, too, in the form of Cameron Stewart and Karl Kerschl. Stewart’s probably best known for his work with genius writer Grant Morrison, including the trippy Seaguy comics from DC/Vertigo and a recent stint on Batman & Robin. Stewart also writes and draws the award-winning webcomic Sin Titulo webcomic, so it’s a safe bet that he’ll be handling the plot. Kerschl did a run on Superman a while back and did a fantastic job on the Teen Titans: Year One miniseries a few years back.

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The trailer hints that the comic will take place in early 20th Century Russia, as the narrator references the Tunguska Event. No doubt the comic will find a way to tie in the supposed extraterrestrial visitation/meteor crash into the AC sci-fi mythos.

There’s no word on a publisher or a release date yet but the book’s the first announce project of the Ubisoft Montreal dev studio’s UbiWorkshop intiative, which tries to expand Ubi’s games into other media. We’re guessing that a bit more info will be revealed at Comic-Con next week.