BioWare, a studio of Electronic Arts, and Dark Horse Comics have announced a new comic book series based on Mass Effect, the blockbuster science fiction action video game that IGN rated the #1 Xbox 360 game of all time.  The new comic book series, Mass Effect: Redemption, is being written by Mac Walters, the leader writer on the Mass Effect project at BioWare.  John Jackson Miller (Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic) is scripting the Mass Effect comic and Omar Francia (Star Wars Legacy) is drawing the first four-issue mini-series, which explores the exotic and dangerous future Milky Way of Mass Effect, revealing previously unseen locations, aliens, and enemies in this rich science fiction landscape.

The narrative in Mass Effect: Redemption fills in the gap between the first Mass Effect video game and Mass Effect 2, which is due out in early 2010.  The first issue of Mass Effect: Redemption, which chronicles Commander Shepard’s fight for survival in the lawless Terminus Systems, is due out on January.