Dark Horse Comics recently announced an Apex Legends comic series that you’re going to want to get if you’re at all interested in following the battle royale’s ever-expanding lore. How else are you going to know why that snide comment was made when you thanked someone for pointing out a backpack?
Respawn’s Tom Casiello also wants to be sure that you understand just how important it is that you buy these comics.
Yes, it’s canon.
Yes, we brought back Titanfall’s Jesse Stern to script it.
Yes, it’s a story by the writing team.
Yes, it will affect the dialogue in the game.
Yes, events will transpire that will affect the Legends’ stories.
Yes, we’ve been busy the last 18 months… https://t.co/KDIoNMI2sh
— Tom Casiello (@tommiecas) March 17, 2021
According to IGN, the four-issue series, written by Titanfall’s Jesse Stern, will feature all 16 Legends coming together to fight “Mad Scientists, brutal assassins, and the sudden and sinister grip of The Syndicate, a corrupt cabal attempting to ‘fix’ arena outcomes in their favour”. Seeing as their team includes at least one mad scientist and a couple of assassins, things could get a little awkward.
The Syndicate is a conglomerate of mercenary companies, a sub-division of which runs the Apex Games, so it sounds like the Legends will be fighting the exact thing that made them celebrities. That’s got to be a contract violation of some sort.
The first issue of Apex Legends: Overtime will launch in print and digital formats on 2 June.