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Team Fortress comics is a comedy-action webcomic series published from 2009 to 2024 by Valve Corporation as a tie-in to the 2007 video game Team Fortress 2. The game's website began releasing comics in 2009 to promote major updates, and in 2013 launched a standalone 7-issue comic series simply titled Team Fortress, concluding in 2024 after several internal delays. Although the Team Fortress games were designed as open-ended multiplayer shooters without a fixed storyline, the comics explore the player characters' lives after the events of the games, alongside an extensive fictional chronology focusing on the Mann family of business owners and an extremely powerful mineral called Australium.

https://www.gamesradar.com/comics/after-7-years-the-final-team-fortress-2-comic-is-finally-here-wrapping-up-an-11-year-saga-with-a-touching-tribute-to-the-late-voice-actor-who-played-soldier/

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/team-fortress-2-sniper-comic

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/not-a-hoaxvalve-writers-confirm-the-official-team-fortress-2-comic-will-continue-over-7-years-after-the-last-issue/

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/after-nearly-8-long-years-a-new-team-fortress-2-comic-is-finally-here-and-the-tf-community-is-rejoicing/

https://www.ign.com/articles/the-team-fortress-2-comic-has-released-its-long-awaited-final-issue

In more recent major updates to the game, Valve has presented teaser images and online comic books that expand the fictional contuinuity and characters of Team Fortress 2, as part of the expansion of the "cross-media property", according to Newell.^[1] In August 2009, Valve brought aboard American comic writer Michael Avon Oeming to teach Valve "about what it means to have a character and do character development in a comic format, how you do storytelling".^[1] "Loose Canon", a comic associated with the Engineer Update, establishes the history of RED versus BLU as a result of the last will and testament of Zepheniah Mann in 1890, forcing his two bickering sons Blutarch and Redmond to vie for control of Zepheniah's lands between them; both have engineered ways of maintaining their mortality to the present, waiting to outlast the other while employing separate forces to try to wrest control of the land.^[2] This and other comics also establish other background characters such as Saxton Hale, the CEO of Mann Co., the company that provides the weapons for the two sides and was bequeathed to one of Hale's ancestors by Zepheniah, and the Administrator, the game's announcer, that watches over, encourages the RED/BLU conflict, and keeps each side from winning.^[3] The collected comics were published by Dark Horse Comics in Valve Presents: The Sacrifice and Other Steam-Powered Stories, a volume along with other comics created by Valve for Portal 2 and Left 4 Dead, and released in November 2011.^[4] Cumulative details in updates both in-game and on Valve's sites from 2010 through 2012 were part of a larger alternate reality game preceding the reveal of the Mann vs. Machine mode, which was revealed as a co-op mode on August 15, 2012.^[5]^[6]^[7] An additional series of seven comic stories around the characters of Team Fortress 2 were published sporadically by Valve from 2013 through 2024.^[8]

References

^ ^a ^b O'Conner, Alice (August 14, 2009). "Valve Talks Team Fortress 2 Comic Book Plans, Movie and TV Show Possibilities". Shacknews. Archived from the original on June 14, 2011. Retrieved July 8, 2010.
^ Chalk, Andy (July 5, 2010). "TF2 Update: The Engineer With the Golden Wrench". The Escapist. Archived from the original on July 8, 2010. Retrieved July 8, 2010.
^ Funk, John (December 9, 2009). "Valve Teases TF2 Demoman and Soldier Updates". The Escapist. Archived from the original on February 14, 2010. Retrieved July 8, 2010.
^ Rose, Mike (July 11, 2011). "Comic Book Based On Valve Strips Coming This November". Gamasutra. Archived from the original on July 14, 2011. Retrieved July 11, 2011.
^ Cite error: The named reference mvm day1 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ Good, Owen (August 12, 2012). "Team Fortress 2's Gray Mann Surfaces as Signs Point to All-Robot Faction". Kotaku. Archived from the original on August 16, 2012. Retrieved August 13, 2012.
^ Hillier, Brenna (August 12, 2012). "Team Fortress 2 to add third, robotic faction – rumour". VG247. Archived from the original on August 14, 2012. Retrieved August 13, 2012.
^ Gerblick, Jordan (December 20, 2024). "After 7 years, the final Team Fortress 2 comic is finally here, wrapping up an 11-year saga with a touching tribute to the late voice actor who played Soldier". GamesRadar. Retrieved December 20, 2024.

[tf2_comics-1] O'Conner, Alice (August 14, 2009). "Valve Talks Team Fortress 2 Comic Book Plans, Movie and TV Show Possibilities". Shacknews. Archived from the original on June 14, 2011. Retrieved July 8, 2010.

[2] Chalk, Andy (July 5, 2010). "TF2 Update: The Engineer With the Golden Wrench". The Escapist. Archived from the original on July 8, 2010. Retrieved July 8, 2010.

[3] Funk, John (December 9, 2009). "Valve Teases TF2 Demoman and Soldier Updates". The Escapist. Archived from the original on February 14, 2010. Retrieved July 8, 2010.

[4] Rose, Mike (July 11, 2011). "Comic Book Based On Valve Strips Coming This November". Gamasutra. Archived from the original on July 14, 2011. Retrieved July 11, 2011.

[mvm_day1-5] Cite error: The named reference mvm day1 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[kotaku_mann_vs_machine-6] Good, Owen (August 12, 2012). "Team Fortress 2's Gray Mann Surfaces as Signs Point to All-Robot Faction". Kotaku. Archived from the original on August 16, 2012. Retrieved August 13, 2012.

[7] Hillier, Brenna (August 12, 2012). "Team Fortress 2 to add third, robotic faction – rumour". VG247. Archived from the original on August 14, 2012. Retrieved August 13, 2012.

[8] Gerblick, Jordan (December 20, 2024). "After 7 years, the final Team Fortress 2 comic is finally here, wrapping up an 11-year saga with a touching tribute to the late voice actor who played Soldier". GamesRadar. Retrieved December 20, 2024.

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