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Tron: Betrayal | |
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Publication information | |
Publisher | Marvel Comics |
Schedule | Monthly |
Format | Limited series |
Genre | |
Publication date | October – November 2010 |
No. of issues | 2 |
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.
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.
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.
IGN reviewed the comic and gave it a "passable" score of 6.5 out of 10. [3]