Comic-Con '11: Darkhorse & BioWare panel

3:52p: We're seated in the panel room now.
4:40p: Panel has begun. Joking about the line to the bathrooms.
4:41p: Dave Marshall intro - me and swtor
4:01p: John Jackson Miller - wrote bios for Knights of the Old Republic
4:02p: Alexander Freed - senior writer on the old republic and The Lost Suns
4:03p: Dark Horse has started rolling a bunch of their Star Wars comics via digital.darkhorse.com of the comic as well as local comic your local comic book shops.
4:04p: Mass Effect Revolution talk - trade paperback available October 19th
4:04p: Playing trailer for Mass Effect 3.
4:07p: Mack - For fans of the series it will wrap up things that you love, choices and descisons you've made. ME3 will be a good entry point for new to the series. me3 is also a good jumping off point for new players. Mass Effect Invasion is a direct tie in to ME3.
4:11p: John - My job is to connect the video game world with the comic world. Video game comics go back no later than the early 80s. Licensed comics didn't link back to products ie - no t-shirts, branding really. Dark Horse was an innovator in the cross-promotion world.
4:11p: Characters from the comics have appeared in game DLC.
4:12p: Mack - We work with a lot of third parties at BioWare, Dark Horse has been the perfect partner.
4:14p: Dave Marshall - We've had the same creative team on all three Mass Effect Series.
4:16p: Powerpoint is showing interior panels of the first invasion comic book.
4:18p: Lost Suns time!
4:18p: Dave Marshall - We did two story lines, digitially on swtor.com. The Threat of Peace and Blood of the Empire, lots of way to read, digitally and trade. we We're tremendously fortunate to work with the writers from the BioWare Austin.
4:19p: AF - Tremendously different to write for a video game vs comic book.
4:22p: AF - The Lost Suns is the first story that takes place in the game, just as the game starts. Theron Shan is a Republic spy.
4:23p: AF - Theron keyed onto an enormous secret about the Galactic peace, has to work with an off kilter Jedi - looking for the real reason the Galatic Empire and Republic really "found peace."
4:25p: Dragon Age II Legacy trailer.
4:27p: Dragon Age II concept art up on screen, having to do with Legacy and generally. *Screenshots are from the trailer*
4:31p: Q & A starting.
4:32p: 1st questions is about ME Characters. 2nd question is about ME Book Characters.
4:33p: 3rd question on ME /DA Branching stories, can they be told via comics? John - Choose your own adventure comics didn't really work out, but you never know.
4:37p: 4th question - Will we see references to Zane? AF - There are certianly references to KOTOR in the comics.
4:37p: 5th question- Will we see a Dragon Age comic from Dark Horse?
4:43p: Panel Over