Team Fortress comics
| Team Fortress | |
|---|---|
| Created by | Valve Corporation |
| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Dark Horse Comics (2009-2011) |
| Genre | Action, Comedy |
| Creative team | |
| Writer(s) | Jay Pinkerton Erik Wolpaw |
| Artist(s) | Michael Avon Oeming Heather Campbell Maren Marmulla Jim Murray |
| Letterer(s) | NassimO ("Death of a Salesbot" only) |
| Colorist(s) | Nick Filardi Maren Marmulla Saren Stone |
Team Fortress comics, also known as Team Fortress 2 comics, is a comedy-action webcomic series published from 2009 to 2024 by Valve Corporation as a tie-in to the 2007 video game Team Fortress 2. The game's website began releasing comics in 2009 to promote major updates, and in 2013 launched a standalone 7-issue comic series simply titled Team Fortress under a dedicated team of writers and artists, concluding in 2024 after several internal delays. Where the Team Fortress games were designed as open-ended multiplayer shooters without a fixed storyline, the comics explore the player characters' lives after the events of the games, alongside an extensive fictional chronology focusing on the Mann family of business owners and an extremely powerful mineral called Australium. The series has been billed as "the most labyrinthine story in Valve history", and received praise for its narrative significance to the games and their fandom. The update comics were included in a 2011 Valve print collection.