Riot Games and Marvel Team Up to Release League of Legend Comics

League of Legend Comics

Ashe from League of Legends

This is a great day for both Marvel Comics and League of Legends fans, as both companies have teamed up to release League of Legend Comics.

League of Legend Comics by Marvel

League of Legend has a rich lore of various characters and Marvel is the perfect fit to tell their stories, as the companies announced today that they’re teaming up to release comics based on the lore of these characters.

“Many fans of the Marvel Universe and comics share their interests and passion for storytelling with the gaming community,” said C.B. Cebulski, Editor-in-Chief of Marvel in a press release. “League of Legends is one of the most well-known games in the industry, and their unique world and extensive roster of rich characters and are a perfect fit for comics.”

The first graphic novel will be called Ashe: Warmother and it will be written by Riot Games Odin Austin Shafer and illustrated by Nina Vakueva, who’s worked on “Heavy Vinyl”.

The story follows Ashe as she learns about the Freljord by going on a dangerous quest that will change Runeterra.

The first issue will come out on December 19th and will continue to release digitally on a monthly basis. The physical edition will release sometime in 2019.

Check out the cover for the first issue below

Ashe: Warmother

If you’re interested in reading other League of Legend comics right now, you can check them out at their site here.

This isn’t the first time video games have had their comic books released, heck even a lot of comic books have been turned into video games as well, like The Darkness.

God of War has also teamed up with Dark Horse to release a prequel comic as well.

You can read all the details about Warframe for Switch here.

We’re really excited to see what Marvel and Riot bring us with these League of Legend comics, are you? Let us know in the comments below.

 

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