Atari has announced a comic book to promote the upcoming Yars Rising game, a prequel to their 1982 release Yars’ Revenge. The video game, from developer WayForward, will be available for consoles and PC on September 10, 2024.
Yars’ Revenge was the highest-grossing original game developed for the Atari 2600 home video game system. It was also the first that came with a comic book explaining the game’s back story, a trend continued with such titles as Swordquest (see “Preview: ‘Atari Classics: Swordquest’”).
Continuing that tradition, the comic is a single-issue prequel to the game. In Yars Rising, professional hacker Emi Kimura and her friends must deal with a job gone wrong.
The 32-page issue is written by Wayforward Game Director Adam Tierney with art by Ele Bruni, Ashleigh Hetrick, and Aurora Maeno. It will be available online and in comic stores in November. Early preview copies will be available, signed by Tierney and featuring a few of the comic pages, during PAX West, August 30 - September 2 in Seattle, at the Atari booth.

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Posted by Johanna Draper Carlson on August 5, 2024 @ 8:12 am CT

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