The very best comics based on video games

There’s obviously a fair amount of crossover between people who play video games and read comic books.

While they are both relatively solitary hobbies, there’s also a simplicity to the stories and power fantasies you can’t really get in any other form of media.

While crossovers between the two haven’t always been too great, video game comic books have really started to hit their stride in recent years.

Check out the best ones below:

Injustice: Gods Among Us

DC Comics

Things in the DC Universe have changed after Superman is tricked into destroying the one thing he loves the most.

Now unwilling to let crime go unpunished, the heroes of our world must choose if they are with Superman or against him. But not every country will submit to his new world order and neither will Superman’s greatest threat, Batman!

The Witcher

Dark Horse

Travelling near the edge of the Brokilon forest, monster hunter Geralt meets a widowed fisherman who’s dead and murderous wife resides in a eerie mansion known as the House of Glass, which seems to have endless rooms, nothing to fill them with, and horror around every corner.

Tomb Raider

Dark Horse

Following the events of Rise of the Tomb Raider, Lara Crofts life gets more complicated. Lara thought she was on a simple mission to find her missing friend Sam, but after an encounter with the Order of Trinity, she realizes that things aren’t quite so simple.

Assassins Creed: Templars

Titan Comics

In 1927, Darius Gift, young, handsome, terribly entitled, is given his first mission for the ancient Templar Order, and the chance to clear his tarnished family name.

All doesn’t quite go to plan when he arrives in Shanghai, however, and his inexperience jeopardizes the whole operation.

Team Fortress 2

Dark Horse

The popular multiplayer first-person shooter pits red and blue mercenaries of varying classes against each other. It’s colorful, cartoonish and above all, pretty dang funny.

Last of Us: American Dreams

Dark Horse

Nineteen years ago, a parasitic fungal outbreak killed the majority of the world’s population, forcing survivors into a handful of quarantine zones.

Thirteen-year-old Ellie has grown up in this violent, postpandemic world, and her disrespect for the military authority running her boarding school earns her new enemies, a new friend in fellow rebel Riley, and her first trip into the outside world.

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