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Far Cry: Cull the Herd #0 review

The first issue of the manga is out! Here are my thoughts on it :)

Spoilers for Primal’s ending below and slight spoilers for the manga itself, but it’s pretty short and just the prologue so not much happens anyway.

You can download this pilot here for free. Remember to read it from right to left!

So, I was wondering who the two teenagers on the cover were, and the answer is Antón Castillo on the right (who looks more like Diego, I think), and on the left… his sister Valeria.

Valeria Castillo is a new character, never mentioned in Far Cry 6 and created for the manga. We aren’t told if she’s older or younger than Antón, but it’s clear she has a strong and caring personality. I’m not sure she can be considered canon since it seems the game’s writing team wasn’t involved (their names don’t appear anywhere), but the idea of Antón not being an only child actually makes sense since he has a nephew!

As explained in the official description, Cull the Herd is about Batari, one of Primal’s two main antagonists, magically abducting some of the franchise’s iconic villains when they were still teenagers, making them fight against each other in prehistoric times, and… this is pretty much all that happens in this free “prelude”. In fact, the “battle royale” hasn’t even started yet.

The comic opens with Batari’s demise at the hands of Takkar, and I think the scene looks a little graphic for the manga’s rating (13+), but maybe it’s just me. As she’s mortally burnt and wondering why “evil always wins”, a mysterious, goddess-like being (possibly Suxli) speaks to her and decides it’s time to “play a game” to determine what the “nature of evil” is.

We then see a 13-year-old Antón working in Yara’s tobacco fields in 1967, as we know he was forced into labor by the revolutionaries. There are differences between the story told in the game and what we see in Cull the Herd, though, but it’s probably because canon doesn’t really matter in the manga.

Aside from the fact that Antón has a sister, it appears his father is still alive in the comic when, in Far Cry 6, he had already been executed at this point. On the other hand, although she only died in 2007 and always remained close to him, his mother Yolanda is never mentioned. We don’t see Antón’s pruning knife either, but maybe we will in future issues.

That said, again, I’ll have to refrain from focusing on the accuracy of the events presented in Cull the Herd too much since it’s just a semi-official crossover alternate universe, much like Captain Laserhawk (which I really enjoyed). Not everything is going to be faithful to the games, but since the manga series is a supernatural retelling of some of the characters’ stories, it’s not supposed to be.

This pilot is only a taste of what’s coming next, and in my opinion, it’s an effective teaser. I don’t know if the other issues will be free and fully colored as well, but I’m curious where the story is going to go, which characters will be involved, and what will happen to them. In my opinion, the story looks promising.

Don’t read Far Cry: Cull the Herd if you’re just interested in gathering more information about some of the Far Cry antagonists’ pasts; it’s clearly not canon. Now, if you’re a fan of the franchise, want to read a crossover story featuring reinterpretations of your favorite characters as teenagers, see how they survive in this nightmarish scenario, discover what “evil” is, and if it truly always wins, this manga may be for you :)

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english isn´t my first language too. I think i got all your point. kd was my ex0 center, i don´t really follow ex0 members, idk what to expect from them, thou i have a few opnions about their career, but just wish them well and success. Im realistic person, imo, ex0 is over. Like, loveshot was the real last cb from ex0 and it was rushed. I think you have a good point about ji denied s/m works in order to s/m accept or arraged better terms for ks. I mean, (1)

Thanks you anon to understand what I said ;x;b

And yes even you believe it or not but I’m a realistic person who had grown up between light side and so dark side world XD

Tbh I same like you that kd is my center and not really to keep eyes on other members much. 

But after I saw what happen with su*li f(x) and other member when she started to make everyone know she has boyfriend even esm tried to pressure her and him to be only best friend in everyone eyes so, I think I hope to see the different thing about their brotherhood relationship between each member and hope they didn’t do a thing like f(x) member did.

And after kris issue until now ex o make me think that it’s a good way to keep an eyes on other member sometime because even kd do like nothing happen with them but you can see other member especially jm and cb showed some reaction to make you huh? while their stage activity like jm did with jagiyah issue XD

I think they are one until now especially ot9 and when some of them was struck it made a butterfly effect to all of them not only one or two if you remember that cs tried to followed to take care hun after han already left… And lay try to show all of time that he is ex o at interview time and it is a thing I not see much in other band when their top member has a solo work to try to cheer their band at the same time. That’s why I keep an eyes on other XD

And yes you got what I said about ji’s work denying…..

The one thing to made me think like that about ji and his work denying is about ji solo that he said about it once at around 2015 era and we saw him with choreographer more than once on their ig status to made us sure that this solo will coming up. But when kk issue come to our eyes instead… It’s like that issue blur that solo and it was end up with taem solo and everyone do like ji didn’t say about his solo work and I think that’s why pretty boy ft. with kai same like what soo talked about 100 days prince ost… (1)