'Pocket God' Comic In The Works
posted by Eli Hodapp on February 9th, 2010 5:45 PM EST in News
Kotaku got the scoop this afternoon on a surprising development in the Pocket God [App Store] universe: A comic book series is coming.
The Pocket God comic is a collaboration between Bolt Creative and indie comic company Ape Entertainment and will initially be released as a digital four issue mini-series with print issues and a trade paperback coming later. Both companies are excited at the prospect of the comic book, as Bolt Creative is bringing an army of over 2 million fans to the table, while Ape Entertainment and publisher iVerse Media could potentially expose tons more people to the pygmies of Pocket God that may not be iPhone gamers.
Pocket God has been an amazing success since its release nearly a year ago. Initially, there was so little to do in Pocket God that we were reluctant to cover it, or even label it a "game". 30 episodes later and the amount of interaction players now have with the pygmies is amazing, with multiple islands, environmental objects to interact with, mini games and even an in-game store that offers customization such as theme packs and even additional pygmy dances.
All that's left now is to see how they work the "You KNOW You Like Pocket God" catch phrase in to the comic books, and what kind of story they can spin in a comic based on a game with no plot to speak of. For more information, check out the interview with developer Dave Castelnuovo of Bolt Creative and David Hedgecock of Ape Entertainment on Comic Book Resources.
Ummm….interesting?
Dang, I was hoping for something else but this works. I have a feeling that this is going to fail outside of Pocket God. I could be wrong but I don't read comics… maybe there are a lot of comic book readers out there. And this would probably lean towards really young kids.
Oops.
*outside of the iphone gaming world
yeah. i only bought it cause it was at the top of the list. i did not care for it adn deleted the game off my idevice.
def not interested in a comic book.
chris.
There are a lot of comic book readers out there. Comic books are a multi-billion dollar industry, and if you swing by a comic shop you'll find that a vast majority of the comic books on the shelves are just as ridiculous as a Pocket God comic.
I never got into Pocket God, I couldn't see the point of it all. And all those updates, it got boring pretty quick.
Agreed, I can't see the point for getting fun on killing people.
i actually agree with you. i downloaded it last year and kept it for a few months.. but i didn't spend more than 1 hour in total playing it.
the novelty wears off after 5 minutes, imo.
@Eli Hodapp, in the post you said pocketgod as been around for a nearly a year, it should be OVER a year
ahaha they celebrated there birthday in January, the 8th I believe. THIS SOUNDS EPIC!
Care to explain what is epic about it? There is nothing epic in this.
I wouldn't call it epic, but it is pretty cool that an iPhone original property had grown this much. I'd rather see a MiniGore series so we can finally get some more back story on that universe, but Pocket God could have some decent 'light' stories.
bo-ring