Portal 2: Lab Rat - Part 2, Out Now!

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The second part of the comic Lab Rat is now out on IGN.com, and you can find part one here. These comics serve as a bridge between Portal and Portal 2 and explain what has happened between the two games.
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Update: The comic is now up on the official website.
 
does it have to be on IGN? I wanna read it on valve's site :(
 
Ha wow,
Doug picked Chell because of her tenacity.
That's pretty clever.
 
seriously, this is crap- I'm not even sure where to start
 
edit: nevermind- I read it anyway. as long as they explain what the hell it was all about sooner or later I'm ok.

now about that ARG...?
 
....

Where are the other test subjects!?
 
Dead, the system shut down. Only enough reserve power to save her, Doug picked her.

This is epic.
 
The disjointed chronology is driving me batshit. I'm too lazy to figure out what the hell order they're supposed to be in.
 
At some point in Portal 2 Chell will come across Doug's body.
 
this is awsome they should keep making these, and make a half life 2 comic also, remmeber when hl2 started and everyone said gordon was like held in time for 7 years, well they should do a comic book about what happened before gordon arrived to city 17 on the train, id buy that shit.
 
I wonder...
if they didnt wanted to test her cuz she doesnt give up,them they wanted the experiments to fail? or giving up was a goal?

dam this add so much storyline mistery,guess crazy theories are back
 
<RJMC> said:
I wonder...
if they didnt wanted to test her cuz she doesnt give up,them they wanted the experiments to fail? or giving up was a goal?

dam this add so much storyline mistery,guess crazy theories are back
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I think they didn't want her as a test subject because she has an increased likelihood of defying them due to her tenacity.
 
You Know... I like you. I nominate you for Favorite New Join of the Quarter.
 
That's good stuff. I read it on the official site however. Do we have some kind of special deal with IGN to give them hits?
 
Props to VALVe for all the expansions to the universe, when I read "Cave Johnson here" in my head it was exactly the way Cave speaks in the videos.
 
Man, why is Chell pretty? She's ugly in-game! Bring back ugly Chell!
 
the thing that gets me is what the hell is going on with the world at the time of Portal 2? what's happened/happening to humanity? where are the combine? what happened to Gordon and Alyx, the resistance & the vortigaunts, the borealis etc. how does the G-man fit into all this? what did GLaDOS mean when she reference the outside in the first game ("I'm the only thing standing between us, and them..")? why has nobody apparently discovered the enrichment centre yet? soooo many questions...
 
then wait for the next half-life game. portal 2 is not the game you want, because it won't answer your questions.
 
we don't know that- It may explain the state of the world at some point, I'd be surprised if it didn't.
 
Why put the last page of the comic up in the news? Seems a bit wrong.
I hope Doug isn't dead, but he probably is :(
 
blackout said:
we don't know that- It may explain the state of the world at some point, I'd be surprised if it didn't.
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Erik has constantly refered to the Aperture Science Enrichment center as being in it's own undiscovered bubble away from everything else that is happening in the world. I mean Portal 1 took place shortly after the Black Mesa Incident, but GLaDOS doesn't have a full picture of what's going on outside, she just knows it isn't good.
 
Nicky 0123 said:
Erik has constantly refered to the Aperture Science Enrichment center as being in it's own undiscovered bubble away from everything else that is happening in the world. I mean Portal 1 took place shortly after the Black Mesa Incident, but GLaDOS doesn't have a full picture of what's going on outside, she just knows it isn't good.
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Actually it's pretty confused. Some news site (I can't remember which) gave a timeline of Aperture Science which they said came offical from the Portal writers which said that GLaDOS was turned on for the bring your daughter to work day and then the Black Mesa Incident happened a few days latter, in 1998. Problem being that Gordon Freeman was hired somewhere between 2000 and 2009, not 1998 which is the year Half-Life was released in but it was set slightly in the future. IIRC someone emailed Marc Laidlaw about it and he said something along the lines of seeing as the information comes from Aperture Science (read: the Portal writting staff) that it's not as reliable as information coming from Black Mesa (read: him) and should not be fully trusted (read: the Portal writers ****ed up). So we're not fully clear on what's the timeline now. Perhaps we should email Marc again?
 
Gameinformer was false. Laidlaw confirmed it.
 
The connection between HL and Portal is just a cameo, to me. In Portal, writers couldn't resist the temptation of quoting and referencing HL, but we shouldn't read too much into that. Neither should we expect a rigid and coherent timeline. Portal has to be considered a stand-alone franchise.
 
Here's the actual quote:
Information coming out of Aperture about Black Mesa is bound to be biased and inaccurate. It is well established in the documentary evidence that was shipped with the original Half-Life that Gordon Freeman did not go to work at Black Mesa until sometime in the noughts.
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So this leaves us with a bit of a confused picture of whether GLaDOS took over the facility in 1998 or around the time of the Black Mesa Incident.
 
Chet said Portal takes place between Half-Life and Half-Life 2.
 
Paulaner said:
The connection between HL and Portal is just a cameo, to me. In Portal, writers couldn't resist the temptation of quoting and referencing HL, but we shouldn't read too much into that. Neither should we expect a rigid and coherent timeline. Portal has to be considered a stand-alone franchise.
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This.

I believe the references to Black Mesa seen throughout the course of the game (e.g. the performance charts seen in various offices) are merely devices used to enforce the image we are given of Aperture Science, which is that of arrogance and an almost desperate need to be ahead in their field (which was their undoing in the end), while at the same time giving players something familiar, and the context, rather funny to relate to.
 
angelpooz said:
this is awsome they should keep making these, and make a half life 2 comic also, remmeber when hl2 started and everyone said gordon was like held in time for 7 years, well they should do a comic book about what happened before gordon arrived to city 17 on the train, id buy that shit.
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Gordon was held in stasis during that time by G-man for about 20 years . So there isn't much point of doing HL2 based comic.
 
Paulaner said:
The connection between HL and Portal is just a cameo, to me. In Portal, writers couldn't resist the temptation of quoting and referencing HL, but we shouldn't read too much into that. Neither should we expect a rigid and coherent timeline. Portal has to be considered a stand-alone franchise.
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But in Episode Two, the Borealis was stated by Dr. Kleiner to have come from Aperture Science.
 
This comic actually made me more excited to play Portal 2, which I didn't think was possible - I love how the art style shifted to represent the changes in Doug's mental state. Also, I kinda-sorta-totally got all misty-eyed at the end. >.>

sharkyshu said:
Gordon was held in stasis during that time by G-man for about 20 years . So there isn't much point of doing HL2 based comic.
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'Cause there weren't any other interesting, named supporting characters wandering around during those 20 years or anything.
 
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