User blog comment:LilyheartsLightning/Author Ex Maraudia — A Review of Marauder Shields/@comment-68.149.83.1-20121009024333/@comment-24174486-20121112161322

A...little late to be replying to this? But I might as well.

The focus of the review is how the webcomic fits as an alternate ending. And I would have mentioned redeeming qualities on that topic if not for the fact that...well, there are none. The events of the webcomic happen solely because of a character whose pops out of nowhere despite being impossible by the lore of the series. If you were to remove the lore accuracies in the beginning of Marauder Shields, there'd just be no webcomic.

The visuals are good; probably because quite a few images are just taken from the Mass Effect games. An episode with Aria in it, for example, obviously uses screenshots from the meeting with Aria on Omega in ME2. (Make of that what you will...)

Regardless, the visuals don't make up in any way for the poor storytelling, plotholes, and lore violations. The webcomic purports itself as an "alternate ending"; this review focuses on how it utterly fails at being an alternate ending.