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How it can be that we STILL have no further information regarding the upcoming comics?

Lady Faceless·4/10/2019, 2:47:28 PM·11 votes·14,763 views

Back in October we lore nerds got some fantastic news – Riot collaborates with Marvel and which will result in a handful multiparted comic series.

These were excellent news, people got excited. More important, we actually got all information almost instantly how it would work. 4 Issues, all free to read on the Universe website, however if you wanted to support the narrative you could buy them via Comixology or Marvel Online, which also included paid Bonus Content.

So far, so great.

Now, with the recent The League Universe /Dev Diary Video we got the information which other two comics are planned for this year: One about Lux and Garen and one about Zed. Also, we got exciting news: Novellas are planned for this year!

Now, 2 months later - Ashe: Warmother is finished and we know… nothing more. Yes, we know that the Lux comic is the next one, but we have neither release date nor synopses about it. You can preorder the physical copy on Amazon but not on any digital comic sites. You can preorder the physical edition of Ashe: Warmother, but I had to ask a Rioter via Twitter to get the information that the physical release includes a bonus short story.

https://twitter.com/RiotAshekandi/status/1113926845630517249

We haven’t heard a single word about the novellas since then.

Listen, I will buy the physical release even without bonus content since I wanna support the narrative team but tell me, how in the hell you are expect any good sell numbers without any communication?

You don’t have to convince the local lore fans which follow you since the beginning, you have to convince the players which have no idea about the lore, which only play the game and maybe the people who will see the comic in their favorite comic store.

And we all know that no one wants to buy a pig in a poke, so you have to convince them your work is worth their money. And quite frankly, you are doing an awful job at selling your own work.

Even if we would get these information regarding the physical edition of Ashe: Warmother and the Lux Comic two minutes after I posted this theard, it would be too late. There is literally no reason to keep these information hidden. If I go on the amazon page, I should know that the comic includes, the moment Warmother was finished, you should have announced the date and the synopses of the Lux comic. So tell me, why should anyone buy or preorder any of comic if you are doing such a bad job at selling them?

12 Comments

RiotWAAARGHbobo4/11/2019, 1:04:36 AM10 votes

I can't speak to the Lux comic. I donno where they are with it. I've only seen snippets. But you can probably apply the same math that was used for Ashe (plus 1 issue) to figure out it's release date. (I mean Marvel's schedules are pretty locked.)

Ashe is still due for release on the day we mentioned previously. (mid may I believe) Sadly, I don't know what's in the book, and I haven't seen it. The exact insides are decided by our editors without the authors feedback (I guess?)

Zed is spinning up production soon... and I'm not allowed to say much about him. I can say he has 6 scripts done, and first script is locked (I.e. ready for the artist).

This is probably because we are in a place where the team doesn't have much to report... yet. (Heck. I don't even know the answers)

Lewanor4/10/2019, 7:22:23 PM4 votes

If only Riot let Narrative team do their work. With all those "only one release per patch", "small problems with lore patches", "word limits" etc. They would talk without doubt if they could. But they are not letting them while also giving priority to all the other stuff.

AnotherPurple3794/10/2019, 3:50:36 PM3 votes

It's only been one month since the Ashe comic? Not two, so it's not been THAT long.

But yeah, you're right. I believe the Ashe comics were released around the 20th of each month. It's April 10 at the time I'm writing this, so if they were going to stick to the same schedule as the one before it, we have ten days left. So yeah, it's weird that we haven't seen a single announcement for the new comics if they might be coming so soon.

My greatest fear is that they won't release any comics at all this month. But hopefully they prove me wrong.

EDIT: I've found out that there may be a title page leaked for the new Lux comic? So to me it proves that the comic is close to completion, if not already completed

I've found this cover page on another Boards post. It looks pretty viable to me

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51CyFB5lRML.jpg

The Iceborn4/10/2019, 3:17:25 PM2 votes

Riot has done a very good job in telling us the plans for the future with a few previews and the Ghostcrawler video, even the Ashe comic was announced very well and explained by Riot and especially Odin. Ever since then the has been nothing but SILENCE. I am a bit confused and saddened by this as we all want the comics to succeed so we can get more in the future including the novellas but in order for us to make this a hit we need Riot to inform and tell us more about this adventure with marvel and that is NOT happening. I feel like Ashe comic has been very well announced but this Lux comic is more mysterious and Im afraid Riot is hurting themselves by not giving us more info on that.

Tesla Effect4/10/2019, 5:32:12 PM2 votes

Lux comic was revealed on Amazon online store. The description says its going to be released on November 19th, 2019. Free Digital release of the comic on the Universe site will probably be released in early 2020.