Among the numerous announcements made by IDW at
IDW Publisher Ted Adams told ICv2 that his company had been unable to keep up with the demand for Joe Hill’s first Locke & Key horror comic series, which has been optioned by genre specialists Dimension Films. In December IDW will launch Locke & Key II: Head Games, which will consist of 24 more issues and then culminate in a graphic novel.
Also on tap for 2009 are both a four-issue prequel for the Terminator Salvation movie and a four-issue adaptation of what will surely be one of major releases of the summer of 2009. The prequel, which is written by Dara Naraghi and illustrated by Alan Robinson, debuts in January, while the adaptation, written by Jeff Mariotte and drawn by Don Figueroa, launches in May, just before the film opens on May 22nd.
Perhaps the most interesting of IDW’s many 2009 initiatives is The Life and Times of Savior 28 by J.M. DeMatteis (Kraven’s Last Hunt). Unfolding across 70 years of American history and pop culture Savior 28 is, as IDW Editor Chris Ryall told ICv2, “a sober-minded take on the concept of a Superman-like character and how someone like that would be treated in the real world if they had those powers—how the government would react to someone who is more powerful than anything they have—how people would respond to someone who is powerful enough to lord it over them…it’s a very deep, rather grim story of what it would really be like if a guy with those sort of abilities appeared on Earth.”
