{"id":12862,"date":"2011-07-12T08:36:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-12T06:36:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"valve-games-immortalised-in-a-comic-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/12862-valve-games-immortalised-in-a-comic-book","title":{"rendered":"Valve games immortalised in a comic book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Valve has teamed up with Dark Horse Comics to deliver an A4-sized hardcover print edition of their various gaming related comics.<\/p>\n<p>The collection will be titled &lsquo;Valve presents: The Sacrifice and other Steam-powered stories&rsquo;. It will contain over 300-pages of stories and illustrations from the Left 4 Dead 2, Team Fortress 2, and Portal series of games.<\/p>\n<p>That would presumably include the six part series of <a href=\"http:\/\/tf2.com\/comics.php\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Team Fortress 2 comics,\">Team Fortress 2 comics,<\/a> the four parts of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.l4d.com\/comic\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Left 4 Dead 2 comic The Sacrifice\">Left 4 Dead 2 comic The Sacrifice<\/a>, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thinkwithportals.com\/comic\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Portal 2 Lab Rat comic\">Portal 2 Lab Rat comic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There is currently no indication that there will be any additional stories that haven&rsquo;t already appeared online, but one would hope so, otherwise the comic book loses a bit of its collectability appeal.<\/p>\n<p>The Sacrifice and other Steam-powered stories will be going on sale on 16 November for the RRP of US$29.99 &ndash; just in time to stuff Christmas stockings; how convenient.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/15564-Valve-games-comic-book-inbound\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Valve games immortalised in a comic book\"><strong>Valve games immortalised in a comic book<\/strong><\/a> &lt;&lt; Comments and views<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Valve_Steam_powered_comics_754562691.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Steam powered comics\" title=\"Steam powered comics\" width=\"340\" height=\"453\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><em>Steam Powered Comics cover art<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicbookresources.com\/?page=article&amp;id=33181\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Comic Book Resources\">Comic Book Resources<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/35767\/Comic_Book_Based_On_Valve_Strips_Coming_This_November.php\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Gamasutra\">Gamasutra<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valve\u2019s Steam Powered stories are coming to a comic book store near you<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}