Half-Life: A Place in the West News

Hello readers, friends, resistance fighters, children of the corn - we are incredibly proud to announce the release of Chapter 6: The Prisoner!



We know the production on this one has been long, and for that we want to apologise. Producing comics is an extraordinarily costly venture, but we hope in the future to avoid having such long delays between chapters. We truly appreciate your patience, and we're so honoured that you keep coming back to follow Leyla, Kempinski, Sejal and Dreyfus on their adventures through New Franklin. Chapter 6 really ups the ante, and sees the city on the brink of civil war.

It's going to get bloody, violent, and more than a little weird going forward.

Speaking of which...there will absolutely be more content this year, but what that is is something we're going to play very close to the chest. We've always striven to be as open and transparent about our production plans as possible, and come September we'll be in a better position to talk about what the rest of the year is going to look like with the release of something we consider very exciting indeed.

We have also included the Russian translation of Interlude 5.5, courtesy of the wonderful Vsevolod Stepanov and Pavel Lapinsky!

So, as ever, thank you so much for your support, and we hope you enjoy Chapter 6 - love it or hate it, please do leave us a review on the DLC page! Your feedback is essential to us.

It's only going to get better from here on out.

Mike, Ross, Kristian, Ester, and Javier.

Hey gang!

It's been a long wait, but Chapter 6: The Prisoner is just around the corner, and we couldn't be happier with the result. Our art team - Kristian Rossi, Ester Salguero, and Javier Puga - have pulled out all the stops to make this the very best chapter yet. We are, at most most, a couple of weeks or so away from it landing.



As for what to expect, well - The Prisoner moves the story forward quite aggressively:

With the execution of the Governor at the hands of Major-General Long, New Franklin is poised on the brink of chaos. Colonel White, Long’s second-in-command, launches a devastating assault on the Opposition base in an attempt to capture the vortigaunt Dreyfus. In response, the leader of the Opposition, Sejal Rajani, lays the groundwork for a counterattack against City Hall, but faces unexpected resistance from Leonard Banks, the power plant foreman, who is harboring a dangerous agenda of his own.

And in a secret prison beneath City Hall, Leyla Poirier meets Long’s captive son, Kurt, and learns the dark truth about her journey to America.



We can't wait to share it with you all. See you soon!

Mike and Ross

Hey everyone!



So, today we (Ross and Mike) planned to play through Half-Life: Decay together on our Twitch Stream, but sadly we weren't able to get the server up and running. It's something we hope to revisit in the future, but in lieu of that we're going to start playing through the Half-Life 2 series - with a slight twist. Instead of having one of us run through the game and the other commentate / heckle their progress, we're going to be playing the fabulous Synergy mod together!

We won't be completing the game in one sitting -- we'll look to maybe reach the end of Water Hazard, with the potential for playing a couple more chapters tomorrow. If you want to watch us throw physics objects at one another, check us out at Twitch Stream.

Chapter 6: The Prisoner is officially over halfway through production! We'll have more details on what it's about & when you can expect it, but in the meantime, here's a glimpse of what's to come...

Hey folks,

Happy New Year! We're going to be getting back into our Twitch Streams this year, because we had such a blast the last time (only with Ross, who can actually, y'know, crouch & jump...but not much else). We'll be going live in ten minutes, picking up with Opposing Force at The Pit Worm's Nest, and then moving onto Blue Shift and blasting through that. Join us! It could be fun. Maybe. The Clown Buffoon pair strike again etc.

We can be found at http://twitch.tv/halflifecomic