Dragon Age - Penny Arcade Comic

BioWare has teamed with Penny Arcade for a Dragon Age comic strip. You can jump straight to the first installment, or read Chris Priestly's intro to the project below:

I am an unabashed Penny Arcade fanboy. I've been reading their comics and visiting their website for years now. I've also been able to meet Gabe and Tycho (Jerry and Mike in real life) and other PA staffers at PAX and they are all great guys and gals.

A number of months ago, I pitched the idea that we should work with Penny Arcade to create a Dragon Age: Origins webcomic. Since BioWare is an office full of geeks who also read PA, the DAO team readily agreed. So Lead Designer Mike Laidlaw and I flew down to Seattle to meet with the Penny Arcade team to go over some ideas and install copies of Dragon Age for them to play through (we wanted to make sure they understood the world they would be working in).

Working with Jerry and Mike was great. Jerry (the writer 1/2 of the team) and Mike Laidlaw both hit it off throwing obscure references to past tabletop games at each other. Mike (the artist 1/2), who admits to being more Sci-Fi than Fantasy, readily grasped the concept and style we were looking for and quickly sketched out how the pages would break down.

Together, BioWare and Penny Arcade have created Witch Hunt where a group of Templar knights will soon get more than they bargained for as they venture through the Korkari Wilds.

Check out Page 1 here: http://dragonage.bioware.com/pennyarcade

We'll have new pages up each week for eight weeks until the tale is told. Also check back tomorrow when we'll have a Q&A up with Gabe and Tycho and what they thought of Dragon Age: Origins.