Dark Horse Comics this morning announced an aggressive slate of upcoming licensed books, including two separate Dragon Age projects, a two for Mass Effect and an adaptation of Naughty Dog’s The Last of Us.The Last of Us: American Dreams, based on the hotly-anticipated 2013 video game, will be a four-issue series by the The Last of Us game’s lead writer Neil Druckmann, along with Faith Erin Hicks on both art and co-writing duties.The story revolves around “Ellie, the heroine of The Last of Us, [who] has grown up in a postpandemic world, shuttled between military orphanages in one of the last remaining quarantine zones and resigned to the fact that when she’s old enough, she’ll be channeled into the army or left to fend for herself—until she meets an older girl determined to find a third way out,” says Dark Horse the series explores the character’s backstory and her first steps on the road that led her to her companion Joel.The first issue of the series will bow in the spring.
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