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Isu Codices, Volume 22: Catching Up with “Assassin’s Creed”

By Gregory Ellner | Jun 28, 2022 | Annotations

Welcome back to the Isu Codices. This month, we are looking into the English translations of the third volume of the Chinese manhua “Assassin’s Creed Dynasty” and the fourth (and final) volume of the Japanese manga “Assassin’s Creed: Blade of Shao Jun.” Due to the nature of the ‘Forgotten Myths’ comics by Dark Horse making […]

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Isu Codices, Volume 21: Catching Up with “Assassin’s Creed”

By Gregory Ellner | Mar 8, 2022 | Annotations

Welcome back to the Isu Codices. This month, we are looking into the English translation of the second volume of the Chinese manhua “Assassin’s Creed Dynasty.” A note on spelling: due to the different methods of romanization for Arabic names, several different spellings of the same name may be found in history, but we will […]

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Isu Codices, Volume 20: Catching Up with “Assassin’s Creed”

By Gregory Ellner | Feb 8, 2022 | Annotations

Welcome back to the Isu Codices. This month, we are looking into the English translation of the third volume of the Japanese manga “Assassin’s Creed: Blade of Shao Jun.” New Concepts Historical Revisionism Key to the historical fiction take on Assassin’s Creed, and even to how this very column addresses it, is its own approach […]

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Isu Codices, Volume 19: Catching Up with “Assassin’s Creed”

By Gregory Ellner | Dec 7, 2021 | Annotations

Welcome back to the Isu Codices. This month, we are looking into the English translation of the first volume of the Chinese manhua “Assassin’s Creed: Dynasty.” The Tokyopop translation has numerous errors, but will be used for images and as much information as can be effectively gleaned. So far, for a large portion of this […]

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Isu Codices, Volume 18: Catching Up with “Assassin’s Creed”

By Gregory Ellner | Sep 7, 2021 | Annotations

Welcome back to the Isu Codices. This month, we are looking into two different projects that were both released as English translations in August 2021. First, we have “Assassin’s Creed Valhalla: Blood Brothers,” a prequel to Assassin’s Creed Valhalla written by Feng Zisu that follows the Sons of Ragnar as they began the Viking expansion […]

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Isu Codices, Volume 17: Catching Up with “Assassin’s Creed”

By Gregory Ellner | Mar 2, 2021 | Annotations

Welcome back to the Isu Codices. This month, we are going to be going into a completely different style of comic: manga, specifically the first volume of “Assassin’s Creed: Blade of Shao Jun” by Minoji Kurata, encompassing the first four issues serialized in Monthly Sunday Gene-X and translated to English by Viz Media. Technically speaking, […]

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Isu Codices, Volume 16: Catching Up with “Assassin’s Creed”

By Gregory Ellner | Feb 2, 2021 | Annotations

Welcome back to the Isu Codices. We have had quite a bit of time away from the French “Assassin’s Creed” comics, but this month, with the release of its English translation, we finally will be going over the events of the latest in the “Cycles” of Les Deux Royaumes, and seemingly the last from Titan […]

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Isu Codices, Volume 15: Catching Up with “Assassin’s Creed”

By Gregory Ellner | Jan 5, 2021 | Annotations

Welcome back to the Isu Codices. Since last time, we delved into the base game of Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla in an in-depth discussion about the lore implications of certain elements of the plot, mostly revolving around the modern day and Isu-based concepts. We can go back into some remaining ideas, but first, let’s wrap up […]

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Isu Codices: An Assassin’s Creed Valhalla Conversation

By Christopher Chiu-Tabet and Gregory Ellner | Jan 1, 2021 | Columns

Before we bid 2020 a final farewell, we share some of our favorite writing from the past year. We wish all of you a happy and healthy New Year, with the hope for brighter days in 2021. Hard to believe, but it’s been roughly a month since Assassin’s Creed Valhalla was released, and two of […]

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Isu Codices, Volume 14: Catching up with “Assassin’s Creed”

By Gregory Ellner | Dec 1, 2020 | Annotations

Welcome back to the Isu Codices. Since our last journey into pre-unification Norway, the latest installment in the Assassin’s Creed game franchise was released, and with it a bit more information about the world. Not nearly as much as we may have hoped, but it may color what is said here. However, there will only […]

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Isu Codices, Volume 13: Catching up with “Assassin’s Creed”

By Gregory Ellner | Nov 3, 2020 | Annotations

Welcome back to the Isu Codices. A few things have changed about the Assassin’s Creed franchise and its approach to comics. First off, the English translation of second installment in the “Assassin’s Creed: Bloostone” duology has been delayed to January, and so will be kept until then. Secondly, the rights to the Assassin’s Creed comics […]

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Isu Codices Volume 12: Catching up with “Assassin’s Creed”

By Gregory Ellner | Feb 19, 2020 | Annotations

Been a while since our last installment, on account of us not really having comics to analyze. There have been a multitude of developments in the games, especially direct integration of what happened at the end of “Uprising” into the games as discussed in a specialized “We Want Comics” column about Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, but […]

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