Tron: Betrayal

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Tron: Betrayal
Publication information
Publisher Marvel Comics
ScheduleMonthly
Format Limited series
Genre
Publication dateOctober – November 2010
No. of issues2
Creative team
Written by Jai Nitz
Penciller(s) Jeff Matsuda
Andie Tong
Inker(s) Pete Pantazis
Letterer(s) John J. Hill
Collected editions
Tron: Betrayal ISBN   1-4231-3463-X

Tron: Betrayal is a two-issue comic book miniseries which serves as the official lead-in to the film Tron: Legacy and was published by Marvel Comics beginning in October 2010.

Contents

Description

The series is set in 1983, shortly after the events of the original film Tron . Kevin Flynn has become the CEO of fictional software company Encom, which he has built into the largest video-game company in the world while secretly building the Grid, a virtual reality inhabited by increasingly sentient programs, ultimately including the mysterious "isomorphic algorithms" ("ISO" for short).

As his responsibilities in the real world increase, Flynn creates Clu 2, a duplicate of himself meant to serve as his proxy. In Flynn's absence, Clu 2 becomes resentful of the ISOs, perceiving them as a threat to the "perfect system" he wishes to maintain. Ultimately, Clu 2 forestalls the ISOs' emergence from the 'Sea of Simulation' and drives Flynn himself into exile. [1] [2] The story also introduces us to Flynn's young son, Sam Flynn, who will become the protagonist of the second film Tron: Legacy .

The epilogue of Betrayal overlaps slightly with the beginning of Tron: Legacy and the events of the 2010 video game Tron: Evolution , in which Clu 2 moves against the ISOs and Kevin Flynn.

Collected editions

Tron: Betrayal was then collected as a 128-page trade paperback by Disney Press in November 2010 ( ISBN   1-4231-3463-X), which contains a new 11-page retelling of the 1982 film Tron, illustrated by Jeff Matsuda.

Reception

IGN reviewed the comic and gave it a "passable" score of 6.5 out of 10. [3]

Notes

  1. Jai Nitz (w),Salvador Larroca, Andie Tong (a). Tron:Betrayal 1(6 October 2010),Marvel Comics, ISBN   978-1-4231-3463-3 , retrieved on 2010-12-18
  2. "Tron: Betrayal". Marvel Comics. Retrieved 29 November 2010.
  3. Jesse Schedeen (7 Oct 2010). "Tron: Betrayal #1 Review". IGN . Retrieved 10 May 2020 via www.ign.com.

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