In an effort to celebrate the biggest Civilization expansion ever (Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword), Firaxis has challenged the gaming community to create fanart/comics set in the Civ world. Additional information about the contest can be found here: Civilization Daydreams Contest.

As part of the Daydreams promotion 2K has convinced quite a few professional webcomics, myself included, to offer their take on the game. We here at GU comics will be debuting new custom Civ IV comics July 26th, August 2nd, and August 9th.

You can see the kickoff comic I did to introduce the contest here:
http://www.gucomics.com/daydreams/

Other participaing webcomics include 8-Bit Theater, Ctrl-Alt-Delete, Dueling Analogs, MyExtraLife and PvPOnline. Animated shorts from the creative team behind Over the Hedge will be included as well. You'll be able to find the various contributions on the creators' websites and at www.apolyton.net, www.civfanatics.com and planetcivilization.gamespy.com.

The Civilization Daydreams site (linked above) will be updated weekly with the various Daydreams comics and animated shorts. Check back here on 7/26, 8/2, and 8/3 for our three page comic short.

UPDATE:
"Picking Your Battles" (Page 3) is up
Series Finale

Great comics... and man, Civilization urge rising.... Budget creaking...

Anyways, loved the kickoff strip there.

Thats great, love the art styling. Civ is definately one of my favorite all time game series. My neighbor gave me Ultima 6 and Civ 1 when I got my first full PC. Between the various incarnations, I've probably spent more time playing Civ then any game other then EQ.

That comic is so true. Funny, I was playing Japan last night and kept trying to research as advanced as possible, as playing on Prince level, I can't keep up at all.

it is indeed a great expack. Very fun

Did anyone find the supposedly already up comics from PVP?

Kurtz is at ComiCon. He probably forgot to post it in a place he could easily link to. That would be a very Kurtz thing to do.

For those of you that are curious, here's the release schedule: (linked as I find them)

July 25th, 2007
· "Kickoff Comic" by me
· "There Can Only Be One" comic by Tim Buckley @ Ctrl+Alt+Del
· "Easy Out" by Scott Kurtz @ PVP Online

July 26th, 2007
· "Picking Your Battles" (page 1) by me
· "Historical Figures" by Scott Kurtz @ PVP Online

July 30th, 2007
· "Deal or No Deal" by Tim Buckley @ Ctrl+Alt+Del
· "Beyond the Sword Indeed" by Tim Buckley @ Planet.Civilization
· "Fashion Faux Pas" by Steve Napierski @ Dueling Analogs

July 31st, 2007
· "Alexander" (animated short) by Michael Fry and T. Lewis @ Apolyton
· "Gaius Julius Caesar" (animated short) by Michael Fry and T. Lewis @ CivFanatics

August 1st, 2007
· "Great Game, Not a Study Guide" by Brian Clevinger @ 8-Bit Theatre
· "Behind" by Scott Johnson @ My Extra Life

August 2nd, 2007
· "Research, Research, Research" by Brian Clevinger @ 8-Bit Theatre
· "Picking Your Battles" (page 2) by me

August 6th, 2007
· "Turn is Over" by Scott Johnson @ Planet.Civilization
· "Cultural Victory... Not Likely" by Steve Napierski @ Dueling Analogs

August 8th, 2007
· "Two Workers Chatting" by Steve Napierski @ Apolyton
· "Marathon Conquering" by Tim Buckley@ CivFanatics

August 9th, 2007
· "Picking Your Battles" (page 3) by me

Any insights about the game itself? Cause the official site is less than forgiving in giving details. I'd love to see some stuff from Civilization: Call to Power 2 implemented, and if the box is any indication, REAL future tech is one of them.

Originally Posted by darkpaw:

Thats great, love the art styling. Civ is definately one of my favorite all time game series. My neighbor gave me Ultima 6 and Civ 1 when I got my first full PC. Between the various incarnations, I've probably spent more time playing Civ then any game other then EQ.

Nice, I too played Civ 1 and Ultima 6 back in 1990-1991 and I've spent more time playing Civ1, 2, 3 and 4 than any other game BESIDES EQ. Hah!

Originally Posted by darkpaw:

Thats great, love the art styling. Civ is definately one of my favorite all time game series. My neighbor gave me Ultima 6 and Civ 1 when I got my first full PC. Between the various incarnations, I've probably spent more time playing Civ then any game other then EQ.

Strange...
I played every Ultima from part I, I do like Civ and I spent far too many hours with EQ.
Strange indeed