Mass Effect: Invasion #2 Preview

Nov 08, 2011 11:23

A 6 page preview for the next issue at The Daily Blam. Now with 20% more biotics and 100% less turian decapitation!


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wow_a_taffypull November 8 2011, 17:44:12 UTC
A turian got decapitated in the last one? Is...is there somewhere on the internet i can see it because whoa gross D:

I may have trouble imagining Aria using the phrase "treasure trove," but I never get tired of her kicky bolero jacket.

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luslanz November 8 2011, 17:57:32 UTC

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evilsherbear November 8 2011, 18:05:01 UTC
All I think is that both those guys should be wearing gloves if they're going to be chopping up bodies. Going to leave fingerprints everywhere. I might watch too many crime dramas . . .

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luslanz November 8 2011, 18:29:20 UTC
Well, what with all the logos they don't strike me as the most subtle of people :P

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sinvraal November 8 2011, 17:59:13 UTC
I think one of my beefs with making Cerberus major antagonists in ME3 is it seems to contradict that we found out in 1 and 2- that Cerberus is a relatively small, cell-based, decentralized organization that nearly bankrupted itself bringing Shepard back and constructing a new Normandy. But suddenly they're an outright army with tons of ships, soldiers and the most advanced equipment? All of this without so much as a sneeze from the Alliance?

Cerberus seems to freely mutate to fill whatever role the writers want it to without much thought to realism, or what was previously established.

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luslanz November 8 2011, 18:20:57 UTC
There are Cerberus agents on the Alliance's payroll according to the novels, so it's not surprising that they don't do much to stop them, and part of their resources might even come from there. The troops you fight in ME3 might even be former Alliance soldiers, just like Jacob.

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sinvraal November 8 2011, 18:38:27 UTC
Oh, I'm sure they have agents all over the place. It's just the scale of it. It was supposed to be a sleeper op, working under everyone's radar. Shepard and the SR2 were supposed to be highly unusual and taxing for them. And yet they suddenly have uniforms, ships and heavy armament, and also built a whole space station in nothing flat. I have trouble buying that they could get all the pomp and circumstance without even attracting the Alliance's notice.

Real-world deep-cover spy operations don't have tanks, jet fighters and spiffy uniforms for everyone, you know? People notice that stuff.

I'm not saying it ruins everything, but it stretches credibility when they give us contradictory information. Are they a deep-cover op, or a full-on private paramilitary group?

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luslanz November 8 2011, 19:04:40 UTC
I suppose it's much easier to hide a huge deep cover operation like that with a huge economy and thousands of worlds to hide in. Cerberus' military could be considered small in the grand scale of things.

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pkbitchgirl November 8 2011, 18:39:09 UTC
Didn't read the last comic, what happened to Anto? And was Grizz even in the comic? Any sign of Patriarch?

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luslanz November 8 2011, 19:14:05 UTC
Anto is kind of Aria's secretary. He hangs out around her giving her updates with his omnitool because Aria is too good to use one. At one point he forwards her a call.

No sign of Patriarch. Not surprising, he could be dead after all.

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zweihand November 8 2011, 19:03:21 UTC
...now between the turian decapitation panel posted above and the preview I kinda want to pick up the Invasion series just to stare at the coloring. it's so pretty *-*

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popehippo November 9 2011, 02:36:00 UTC
Seriously, if anything the art seems to have gotten much better.

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vexed_artist November 8 2011, 20:36:41 UTC
Count me as another tally mark on the "Cerberus does a 180" roster. I'm just finding the whole mutation from "small, decentralized, cell-based organization" to "fully-equipped and fully-funded paramilitary organization" a little hard to swallow.

Looks almost halfway interesting though, and it seems like Dark Horse actually has a competent artist on board for this one. But I'm still not going to buy it :\

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