I think in general, Mortal Kombat's foray into comic books has never really been great. The original MK and MK2 comics were great companions, but the subsequent Malibu Comics series went in absurd directions that seemed to have later impacted the way the story went during the 3d era (in the sense that it got convoluted and wacky). The Deception comic book tie-in series never got off the ground, and the MKX series was a continuity disaster from start to finish (which MK11 seems to have effectively brought completely into canon). While I would've enjoyed an MK series, I'm not particularly upset, nor am I glad that this got scrapped. I just don't feel like the comics and the game series ever really compliment each other effectively.

Wait, Gale Simone was supposed to write something for MK? Thank the elder gods that never came to be!

I mean if we thought the writing was bad now she was about to ask the current writers to hold her beer.

Sadly, Mortal Kombat has never worked beyond a video game and the first feature film due to lackluster success. All 3 web seri have sucked; the sequel feature sucked; the live stage show sucked; the live action TV show sucked; and the animated prequel and series sucked. All the comics suck, the card game sucked, and over half the video games suck.

Should just stay as a simple video game.

Shame this didn't work out! I had a feeling something was in the works when I stumbled onto some Tweets from comic book artist Steve Orlando. First, he posted a random screenshot from MKII:

Then, he mentioned that he would someday write Mortal Kombat:

So, it seems to me that whatever the project entailed, he was most likely involved with it.

cool post, thanks

Only John Tobias should write the comics and story, even though he screwed over the company. Even the Midway employees should've done this. No one else. They have vision. Most characters back then, had more depth and meaning in the MK universe. Example;

Jax:

Midway version - Earthrealms best soldier. scientist of the Outworld portal program. An engineer, that created his own arms and tech to be on par with outworlders.

MK9 - Ermac slowly ripping his arms, while sonya watches

MK11 - Protray's his best friend, daughter, god daughter and special forces over a dream he always fights for.

MK scorpion animation = Just randomly appears on shang tsungs island without sonya by his side and gets his arms ripped off by Goro.

Look what they did to sindel, kotal,nightwolf etc. Poor writing or lack of vision.

Not necessarily true. The original 3 games definitely have a decent story that can be turned into a decent film as long as the writers of said film would stick to the real story of the 1st three games. I worry about this new film coming out because rumors around an original character idea. Why? The original story has still not been told correctly for this film in a movie setting.

It is so easy it could almost be an image of Enter the Dragon where the 3 main heroes Liu, Sonya and Johnny in the opening are either already on the boat or heading to the boat and en route they have a flashback of their journey before hand or an introduction to who they are. The tournament style could be more broad as the novel of the original film had been. Either MK1 - 3 or MK9 - current have a decent chance of being a great movie if we tell the stories from those games the way we know them today.