Writers for Valve have confirmed that after being on hiatus for seven years now, the official Team Fortress 2 comic will be coming back.
The news comes as the game still has a loyal player base despite being released in 2007 and is currently embroiled in a controversy around bots. Many Team Fortress 2 developers said that the in-game comic series will be getting a seventh issue that is supposedly already fully written.
Team Fortress 2 Comic is Coming Back
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The comics for Team Fortress 2 were considered to be very funny pieces of readable material and those who have read previous issues can have an idea of what to expect. The last issue, which was released on Jan. 10, 2017, is now being followed up by one that is made by Valve's Jay Pinkerton.
He had responded to a query from one PieSpie, who is a Team Fortress 2 player who is involved in an unofficial community comic project. The latter asked the writer for some advice regarding what he was working on, according to PCGamer.
Pinkerton replied by saying that it was amazing to know that other people were working hard on the comic. He added that the same team that made the first six Team Fortress 2 comics has been working on and off on the seventh issue for quite a while now in between projects.
The Valve writer also revealed that the script for it has already been completed and is being drawn as he was writing his reply. However, he said that there were no promises on when it would be released but provided a sneak peek of the comic.
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The singular image showed a barren wasteland where various human skeletons were being picked off by several vultures.
In response, the Team Fortress 2 community wildly and started to scrutinize the email in detail all in an effort to work out whether or not it was a fake or if someone was simply impersonating Pinkerton.
As things went back and forth, the general consensus was that the situation was actually legitimate. This was shortly before another Valve writer, Erik Wolpaw, who had worked on the majority of what the company has done in the last two decades, confirmed the news.
The Game's Bot Problem
Despite two Valve writers confirming work on the Team Fortress 2 comic, the company itself has not yet issued any statement regarding the situation.
Wolpaw's comment on the matter was a simple "Not a hoax!" comment. The latter noted that the script is 194 pages and the book will have three variant covers, said GamesRadar.
The hype around the game's comic comes as the community is in an uproar over Valve's lack of effort in addressing the bot problem that many players are saying is ruining Team Fortress 2. About a month ago, the petition demanding the studio to take action garnered more than 200,000 signatures.
The fan campaign was started on June 3, 2024, and a message said that Team Fortress 2 is currently in an unacceptable state. It noted that Valve's apathy in dealing with the bot problem is "nothing short of appalling," according to Kotaku.
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