TRACER-LONDON CALLING PART 1 Feels Like An Insignificant Piece To Overwatch

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Overwatch has been hitting it’s community with a lot of small bits of entertainment and bits of content to keep the community busy until Overwatch 2 comes out. Blizzard has worked with Dark Horse Comics to make a new Tracer comic that gives us some insight into Tracer’s day-to-day life after Overwatch was shut down.

The art is good, but it doesn’t show off any majorly spectacular full-page drawings, or striking/memorable scenes. It’s just Tracer walking around London, talking to people and jumping around trying to be a good citizen. It is really nice to have a new skin come out that is tied to the comic. The pages of the comic being plastered onto Tracer’s legs look pretty cool, but I think some higher quality images and more dynamic scenes could have added a lot to the comic and the in-game skin. 

As for the story itself, it was pretty subpar. It’s just a general story of Tracer getting to know some Omnics, befriending them, and learning more about their oppression. The problem with the story is that we already knew the problems in the world and we didn’t learn any more information on how or why they’re oppressed, it didn’t dive deeply at all into the subject matter. We also already knew that Tracer was very sympathetic to Omnics, so there was no character development at all. As much as the story was a pretty simple and nice little bit of lore, it didn’t add anything to the overall understanding or overall depth of the characters or Overwatch universe.

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As a side note, I think that comic about Tracer is honestly kind of a waste. I’m not complaining about a comic or a new skin, but why choose Tracer? There are other characters in Overwatch that have gotten no extra lore, comics, animated shorts or anything yet. Why not do something about Zenyatta, Lucio or Hammond?

I think this is a fine comic, but it just doesn’t add much or anything to the conversation. Nothing is particularly wrong, but the art, story or skin are all fairly average. There also isn’t much of a reasoning or driving factor or necessity for the comic’s existence, therefore making it feel somewhat wasteful of Blizzard and Dark Horse Comics resources. I do understand that this is part one of five, but it barely builds anything up or brings up any real conflict. We’ll see how the other issues are, but they’ll have to do a lot to make it worth while for the readers to take the time and patience to read the five issues over who-knows-how-long for them to come out.