User blog:Hawki/Scavenging for a Feeling

I might have come up with a better title, but I'm tired. I tried to comment on the SC3 thread, but my post was deleted (and it was a long one too).

Anyway, Scavengers. General thoughts. Might do the same when issue 2 comes out. Note that this is more a stream of conciousness rather than a review. Anyway:

-So, Dark Horse Comics makes a plenthora of Aliens/Predator/Prometheus comics, and now things have come full circle (hapless humans explore derelict spacecraft, bad stuff happens)

-The whole UED sympathizer thing...I'm mixed. I mean, I actually like the idea of the UED having sympathizers in the K-sector, just feel that we're let in on the reveal far too early. I'm hazzarding a guess that the crew are trying to deliver protoss tech to the UED, whether it be the remnants in the sector or somehow the UED proper.

-Apparently farm boys always end up in space, because any other career ain't an option. 0_0

-I get why stuff needs to be explained to Caleb from a narrative sense (form of exposition), but I think he'd actually already know about the protoss and zerg? Maybe?

-And...that's it. I will say I like the art here more than the SC web comics. There's also the question as to whether this is tying in with anything. If we assume that issue 4 concludes in October...well, that is close to BlizzCon, but if this is leading to a UED comeback, I can't see any kind of SC3 being announced. Maybe a kind of 'long game' with setting building, in that Shadow Wars has demonstrated a breakdown of relations, whereas this might be hinting at other material. But early days left.