To wit, she did everything she said she did in the few lines of dialogue on the subject from the game. Liara meets Feron, throws around a lot of biotic bodyslams, and plucks Shepard from the clutches of the Collectors. This series of comics promises to tell the story hinted at by Liara in Mass Effect 2, and, well, it does that. Caught in the middle of a standoff between the elusive Shadow Broker, the human-supremacist organization Cerberus, and the sinister Collectors, Liara struggles to save Shepard’s body from the murky schemes that have risen up around it.

Desperate to find what has become of Commander Shepard, she journeys to the outpost of Omega and falls in with a shady Drell named Feron, whose allegiance seem to shift on the hour. Liara T’Soni in the aftermath of the Normandy SR2’s destruction at the hands of the Collectors. I liked it for what it was (a brief aside for existing fans of the games), but I’m hard pressed to find anything else about it to compliment. Though skittish about trying this stuff again, I figured that this graphic novel would be a safe bet. I’ve heard good things about the Mass Effect novels, though. Now, I’m a big fan of Bioware’s games, but after being thoroughly underwhelmed by David Gaider’s debut novelization of the Dragon Age universe, I’ve largely gone back to my tried and true philosophy of avoiding game tie-ins. First and foremost, for those who feel like making a glib remark about Mass Effect 3: I haven’t reached the end yet, and have no intention of joining your gibbering horde of self-involved diaper babies should I end up being disappointed with it.

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