Comics
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Comics are a medium used to tell the story in the Hero Factory franchise, mainly included within the LEGO Club Magazines. All of the main Hero Factory comics have been published by DC Comics, with the exception of the eighth and ninth Breakout series comics.
Publication History
There are seven comics that are based on the first seven television episodes. They have some differences from the episodes, like quotes. There are also mission logs, which are made by the Heroes and describe the events of the stories a little.
The first comic, Trials of Furno, was released as an exclusive to those who attended the LEGO booth during Comic-Con 2010, and other related functions. The second comic, Core Crisis, was included in the September–October 2010 issue of the LEGO BrickMaster Magazine, as individual pages within the magazine. The third and fourth comics, however, were postponed, and eventually not released in the LEGO Club Magazine. The third comic was eventually released online through a third-party promotional website, and the fourth comic was only available through certain third-party sites. Each of all four comics in 2010 has 12 pages.
The fifth comic, Ordeal of Fire, detailing the second wave of sets, was again released in the LEGO Club Magazine, in the March–April 2011 issue. Unlike the previous comics, this one diverged from the corresponding TV episode, and the new plot introduced in the comic was never finished. The sixth comic, Savage Planet, was released in the July–August 2011 issue of the LEGO Club Magazine, introducing the summer 2011 sets and story, and based on Episode 6, the first half of the Savage Planet TV special. In the November–December 2011 issue of the LEGO Club Magazine, a second part to the sixth comic, Savage Planet 2, was released. This comic contained the final part of the Savage Planet storyline that had been seen in the second half of Episode 6 and the entire Episode 7. Each of all three comics in 2011 has 10 pages. The first six comics is based on the scripts of the first six episodes while the seventh comic is based the sixth and seventh episodes themselves. Only Trials of Furno and Core Crisis were also released in HeroFactory.com, and it is unknown why the other comics were not released there.
In the first LEGO Magazine issue of 2012, two pages of the eighth comic, Breakout, were included. At the end of the comic, a Club Code was included that, when entered on LEGOclub.com, revealed the remainder of the comic, dubbed "Part 2", which consists of 10 pages. This method of distribution was repeated with the ninth comic, Breakout: Issue 2. However, these two comics describe a different story than portrayed in Episode 8 and Episode 9 and are considered outside of the canon. They are also not officially part of the main series, and the other kind of comics had stopped in 2011 for an unknown reason. These comics are about Daniel Rocka, Nathan Evo, and Jimi Stringer fighting Black Phantom, Toxic Reapa, and Voltix. It is unknown why the other Breakout Heroes and their assigned villains did not have their own Breakout comics, but Preston Stormer has a cameo in the first Breakout comic and is contacting Rocka through the comic.
Along with the main comics, there are promotional comics that came from many LEGO Magazine issues, online pages in the LEGOclub.com, and 2013 and 2014 sets. All but one called Showdown! are not canon. One of the promotional comics, Double Dragon Danger!, repeated the same method of using a Club Code to reveal the remainder of the comic. The comics shown in the 2014 sets were also released in HeroFactory.com. Some of the promotional comics were found in UK LEGO Magazine issues.
The LEGO Club system is no longer available in the LEGO website.
Main Comics
2010
2011
2012
Promotional Comics
- Stuck On A Problem! (2010)
- Showdown! (2010)
- Stormer Investigates (featured in Hero Factory: To Serve and to Protect, 2010)
- A Narrow Escape (featured in Hero Factory: Galaxy's Most Wanted, 2010)
- An European promotional comic advertising the Fire Villains and the 2.0 Heroes (2011)
- A comic detailing the journey to Quatros included on backs of the boxes of Savage Planet sets (2011)
- Jungle Of Danger! (2011)
- Breakout! (2012)
- A comic in the early 2013 sets' instruction manuals that is about the Brains coming to attack Makuhero City
- A comic in the late 2013 sets' instruction manuals that is about the Heroes fighting the Brains and their possessed beasts in the city. The comic is actually pictures taken from one of the early 2013 set commercials
- Double Dragon Danger! (2013)
- A comic in each of the 2014 sets' instruction manuals that is about the set the manual belongs to. The comics were also released as downloadable content in HeroFactory.com in 2014, and each of them was released one at a time throughout the year
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