Last week we posted a teaser video of an upcoming Assassin’s Creed comic book project from the minds of Cameron Stewart and Karl Kerschl. The two artists have teamed up in order to bring a lost moment in Assassin’s Creed history – Orelov, the Russian Assassin.
According to information found at Newsarama, “Nikolai Orelov is a Russian Assassin who will be shown at three different stages of his life. Each issue of the 3-issue comic book series will focus on one of these eras, with Orelov as an apprentice assassin, at the height of his career, and finally as a “grizzled” seasoned veteran. He lives in a time of revolution and the falling of the Czars at the turn of the 20th Century, a drastic change for Russia that the Assassins may have had a larger hand in than previously known. The design of the character was meticulously researched by Stewart and Kerschl, taken from stacks of “books at the library” and museum trips, including some in St. Petersburg. Daniel Cross will be the comic’s correlary to the games’ Desmond Miles, the character in a closer-to-present day who enters the Animus, a machine that allows him to relive the memories of his ancestral assassins.” Supposedly (at least, according to the video released last week), the comic will also deal with the Tunguska Experiment and the involvement of a Piece of Eden there.
According to the article, Stewart and Kerschl will actually be sharing the drawing responsibilities – drawing together at the same time. They pass the page back and forth between the two of them, which allows full synergy between the two. They will literally be co-writing and co-drawing the entire thing, with no great distinction between the two of their work. They also went to Russia to research the look of the book, because Stewart relates that if the game developers can put as much research into their work on the game, they can do it as well. With that in mind, we are told not to expect some kind of dark and gritty Russia like in the movies, but rather a metropolitan area. It has also been confirmed that the book will be full canon to Assassin’s Creed and will be acknowledged in future storylines.
For more information, please check out Newsarama where you’ll also find some more sketches. Hopefully the Assassin’s Creed comic will help put aside some of the stigma that exists in video game comic adaptations to the general public.
