Clash of Clans will soon make the transition from the world of mobile games to comic books thanks to Gene Luen Yang, the award-winning author of books ranging from Shang-Chi to the celebrated graphic novel American Born Chinese. 

As reported by The Beat, Yang revealed the news at a WonderCon '22 panel and said that the game would soon become a graphic novel series published by First Second. "We're fans of Supercell," Yang said of the company behind Clash of Clans, before launching into a story about how his children and First Second editor Mark Seigel's kids loved playing the game against each other a decade ago.

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"...Mark and his family live on the East Coast," Yang said. "My family and I live on the West Coast, but our kids were the same ages. So, it was a way for our families to connect. But ever since then Mark and I have wanted to do a Clash book. But he would call Supercell to try to get a meeting, and at some point, he realized why they weren't coming back is because the amount of money that they would make from a graphic novel is the money they make in four hours. It just wasn't worth it to them financially."

Despite this setback, Yang said that Seigel never gave up, and was finally able to convince Supercell into giving them the license after ten years. The resulting Clash of Clans graphic novel series will encompass eight books, each focusing on a different character from the hit mobile game. While the art teams are still under wraps, Yang said he and his collaborators were taking inspiration from legendary cartoonist Carl Banks, who catapulted Disney characters like Donald Duck and Scrooge McDuck into comic book stardom throughout the 1950s and beyond.

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"With video games, at least like the mobile platform that Clash is on, the characters have to be two dimensional," Yang said. "...one of the challenges that we talked about for months was how it clashes with the look. All the troops of the same class look the same. All the archers are the same. All the barbarians are the same, all the same. So how do you tell a story where you care about the characters in a world like that? So, we came up with a solution. I hope people like it."

Aside from Clash of Clans, Yang's other recent projects include a Disney+ adaptation of American Born Chinese, Marvel's latest Shang-Chi series -- Shang-Chi and the Ten Rings -- and DC's version of the legendary Chinese hero Sun Wukong in the ongoing Monkey Prince series.

Clash of Clans first debuted in 2012 on iOS devices and was released on Google Play one year later. The strategy game, consistently ranked as one of the most popular on mobile platforms, lets players build their own village and plunder the villages of friends for resources. The graphic novel series' release date has yet to be announced.

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Source: The Beat