More reviews （and no fluff） on the blog http://surrealtalvi。wordpress。com/This ended up being a disappointment to many; not because of the story but because the illustration work just didn't work for Apex Legends。 All the Legends were posed/drawn like a Marvel superhero rather than an Apex Legends character。 Some were horribly misdrawn （Bang has a Frankenstein head and Loba has braids growing out of the top of hers ） and others looked nothing like their game counterpart （Rampart especially More reviews （and no fluff） on the blog http://surrealtalvi。wordpress。com/This ended up being a disappointment to many; not because of the story but because the illustration work just didn't work for Apex Legends。 All the Legends were posed/drawn like a Marvel superhero rather than an Apex Legends character。 Some were horribly misdrawn （Bang has a Frankenstein head and Loba has braids growing out of the top of hers ） and others looked nothing like their game counterpart （Rampart especially looked off）。 But the story was a decent one that had a Kurosawa type of plot that showed the same timeline from several different angles。 What was inexplicable in one story suddenly became known from a different characters' perspective。 I did like the plot but had such a hard time with the art - several panels were laugh out loud funny at how silly or poorly illustrated they ended up being。Story: Mirage and Crypto team up to help Crypto retrieve a mysterious computer。 Cue Revenant there to murder the delivery man （and perhaps Mirage and Crypto as well）。 Octane and Lifeline head to a rave but get more than they encountered when Pathfinder shows up and ends up getting his consciousness swapped into Lifeline's Doc at the same time she is shot。 Bangalore is at a victory party with Gibraltar and Loba when she spots someone wearing her brother Jackson's jacket。 Rampart and Wattson see Caustic holding a suspicious bag and follow him only to uncover a secret lab where he is conducting cruel experiments on prowlers。 Wraith， meanwhile， stumbles upon Revenant and Crypto/Mirage battling and decides to help Mirage。 Cue rampaging loose prowlers， explosions， fights among Legends and thugs， and transport ship crashes。So， as noted， this is very similar to the storytelling in the Japanese movie Roshoman in which there are several perspectives to the same sequence of events。 E。g。， there are rampaging prowlers in the city as seen by Lifeline and Octane - but we don't learn until many chapters later how that came about （with Rampart， Caustic， Wattson）。 Similarly， a crashing ship on Loba/Bang/Gibby seems incredibly random until explained a few chapters later with the perspective of Mirage/Crypto/Revenant storyline。 All storylines converge in the end。 It does make for some confusing but good storytelling that is rewarding upon rereads。There were a lot of memes made about the illustration work （Bangalore especially as she was drawn） in the Apex community after the first issue。 Sadly， the work just didn't improve。 The most insightful reviews noted that it felt like it was drawn solely from character models and without a lot of understanding of the characters and how they move。 Crypto ended up looking too much like Gambit from Xmen， Bangalore like the Bride of Frankenstein， Wraith like a younger and prettier superhero。 All the posing and fights were comic cliches。 Honestly， it was just a mess。 I didn't even like the shading， which turned faces into distorted features rather than adding depth。 Fights and battle were very confusing， with more posing than actual battling。As for what this adds to the lore: honestly not much。 We get a bit of Mila for Crypto and Bangalore still hunting for Jackson。 Jackson is now in game and likely this is a preview of Mila coming into the game in the near future as well。 Pathfinder， Mirage， and Wraith are lonely and feel like they don't have friends。 Lifeline and Octane still have a complicated， if dumb， relationship。 Gibraltar just wants to save everyone and Wattson is still mad at Caustic。 Rampart has connections in the City。 That's about it。In all， I'll read any comic from the Respawn team because I know the lore writer does an excellent job。 I do wish the artwork was better and showed the characters as they look in game。 And I don't think the Marvel/DC superhero look was a good one for this game。 So keep those expectations in mind when deciding if you want to read this。Note: Collects all four in the series in the story arc OVERTIME。 Reviewed from an advance reader copy provided by the publisher。 。。。more