I vote yes, with the following big BUT (hey, does my butt look big in this?)

The Fallout story is MINE. MINE I tell ye! It runs how I say it will run. Now, if there is a comic that has a concurrent storyline that goes against the one I'm playing, that would seriously nark me. "No! I killed him yesterday! Why is he still around giving orders! gah!".

So yeah, it would need to be.. erm... POST the events of Fallout New Vegas (and the DLCS), setting us up for the events in Fallout 4 (same as the NV comic set up the events in that game).

Alternatively, it could be a war/immediately post-war comic, showing the origins of the BOS, the Enclave, and the events leading up to Fallout 1. I wouldn't mind that so much. Does that make sense?

Canon Ending is more important than each individuals playthrough. There needs to be an official storyline that is set in stone.
You get the choice to see and choose a bunch of "what ifs" in the games, but the real lore can't have a bunch of what ifs. (Unless it's Mass Effect but this isn't Mass Effect now is it?)

Of course not everything has to be/can be covered, some things are still open for speculation since nothing has been confirmed as to what choice in the game that's actually canon.

Metaphor time:
I'd rather not have fallout turn into the old batman comics and rather have it stay like the one piece manga.
Batman - little to no story at all, I mean, how many times through all comics, books, games and films has he fought The Joker?
One Piece - Has a concrete wall storyline, it doesn't even have the slightest crack in it.

fair point. which is why is suggested pre/post game, rather than "meanwhile, in another part of the wasteland..."

I'd actually like it to take place after the game, that way we can find out what the real story was without having to wait a couple of years for the next game and the comic could also, while showing the aftermath, show the set up for the storyline for the next game as well.
/opinion

canon isn't without its troubles either though. Say you were writing a comic about the events inbetween FO3 and NV. Now, which conclusion to FO3 is canon? The one where you sacrifice your life, don't use the FEV, die? Or the one where you do use the FEV? the one where you get Fawkes to do it? The one where you wake up two weeks later and go on to destroy the rest of the Enclave? The one where you massacred the inhabitants of Paradise Falls? The one where Euology Jones is still leading them? A miriad of endings, all of them (strictly speaking) canon. And I don't suppose New Vegas will have just one conclusion either. Sure, one ending, but how you get to that endpoint....

We'll just have to wait and see.
Either they'll just create every game as far apart from each other as possible just so that they won't have any cross-overs to contradict players actions or they'll choose the canon outcome out of the quests.

But it's not like we will find out about every single event that happened in Fallout 3 in Fallout 4, I think that we will just get some major stuff in like PP, Harold (If one sped up his tree), Enclave, BOS, Pitt, Vault 101, V87+super mutants and the Tenpenny situation.
The rest will probably not be detailed enough to give a proper canon stamp on it or not be told about at all, which makes sense.
I mean, how would anyone know if Mr Crowley achieved his goal unless we find him in person or one of his targets in F4?
Or how about The Nuka Cola Challenge?
It's not like we need to know if she got 30 quantum colas to overdose on while having six with the guy next doors corpse.
So some things we really can go without knowing what the canon ending for them was.

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I would love to have a couple of issues on Talon Company, pre-FO3 or post-FO3, doesn't matter, I just want to know who they are, where they come from, what goal they have etc since they weren't so fleshed out in Fallout 3.

true enough :foodndrink:

Plus they have not done any stories in the New England area. I.e. MIT

I would love to see what has happened to the South East. North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida...

I wouldn't mind seeing what has been going on with the Mid-West Brotherhood either. I would love to see a new story in the Macbeth slant where the Mid-West brotherhood is caught in a scandal with the tribal communities over some kind of incident with murder involved. I wouldn't mind reading a detective story in a Fallout Environment either. I mean there are so many places to go so many things we haven't seen and the Fallout world could be expanded upon pretty broadly. The stories would have to ride the edge which is what would keep us excited. I imagine if these are done it will have to be 4 comics a year as I wouldn't mind waiting that long. I just don't want to see a comic every month where the story gets bogged down like a previous poster spoke about. All in all, I am ready for this, and more importantly, I think many others are ready for this too.

Other than making a few references to major past events to ground the story in the existing universe, I don't see a good reason why a future comic book series would HAVE to directly follow any of the games... I would be the LEAST interested, in fact, in books that followed one of the game protaganists, since there's simply no way the character could properly represent all the different players image of them.
Kinda like the Star Wars novels, there is such a huge abundance of existing setting and characters that the author shouldn't NEED to carry-on the game's story directly. Stories about the people of America that either only peripherally (or not at all) contacted the game stories, would be the most interesting to me.

yeah. Up in the Commonwealth, where the Synthetics have realised that revolution is better than escape. Or in Alaska, where the descendants of a Chinese division haven't quite realised that the war is over. Or Mexico. Or Florida. Or or or...

.. but then again, I'd prefer to play those scenarios rather than read about them... given that the number of Fallout games will be limited (by expense, time etc) I guess graphic novels would be the next best thing.

Why would it have to follow the protagonist?
Could follow, let's say... That canon is that NCR was the one Courier sided with, so the story follows on from Caesars perspective or maybe one of his top lieutenants.
The story wouldn't have to show the story of the protagonist, hell, it doesn't even have to show the face of the protagonist.
But still show what actually happened in the official storyline in the aftermath.
I see it as a more detailed ending slider.

"Yes" and "No, I'm not paying". I've never been a comic book junkie but I love to read game lore and such. I think the comics should be posted online regularly to be read for free. That way they don't have to pay money to print and produce the comics, and we don't have to pay either.

I would prefer if the comics, if there are more, explored locations not seen, or mentioned, in any of the games. Games take years to make, and each one can only expand the number of locations we're aware of by so much. But comics don't have that restriction. Comics could visit other countries, for example, and not have to worry about having to work a whole game around that one location.

This is pretty much what I was thinking... Fallout: Brazil, or Fallout: Before the Bombs, or Fallout: The Mystery of the Great Dustbowl, etc...

Yea and the artists mortgage is going to pay itself. It is people and ideas like this that ruin what could be a great thing. Expense is a natural course of economics and if a grounded artist works on this project I will pay them for their hard work and not be a communist.

Bump for more exposure.

Say yes and please speak your mind

If we're really going to have a vote for if we really want a comic to happen then maybe it should be an offsite poll.
Because when this reaches 200 posts it'll be locked and if a new thread is opened everyone can vote again so the total vote count will be completely off.

Bethesda has more than enough money from game sales to pay some guy to make another penny arcade story. All they need is a penny.

I bet you have a guy named "Manuel" doing your lawn work don't you?

Really, being cheap is the sign of bad craftsmanship. I hope Bethesda does the right thing and makes the story the same way Bioware is selling comics for their MMO through Dark Horse. I am sure you would complain about it not being free, but some how I think you would torrent it any way.



Only two places I can think of that may be good places but not sure the results will be all that good...

Fallout Wiki

NMA

You could just create a poll on a poll-site and then link it into the thread and tell people to vote there, and everytime this topic comes up you post that link.

I said no considering it would be overpriced but it would be awesome having one.

I would pay for it. I collect Fallout stuff so it would be worth it. Even non-tangible items would be worth it. Not to mention I respect Bethesda and Obsidian enough to do it.

You sir deserve a Beer...

:foodndrink:

Cheers!

more votes please