Comic-Con News: Dynamite Entertainment has announced a deal with CBS Consumer Products that will allow Dynamite to create a comic book series based on the classic Twilight Zone science fiction television series. Dynamite also announced that it had signed veteran TV and comic book writer J. Michael Straczynski, who actually worked on the 1980s revival of the Twilight Zone TV series, to write the comic on an ongoing basis.
JMS explained that he has come up with a unique 3-4 issue story arc format for the new Twilight Zone comic, "The immediate creative question to be resolved was: how do you transplant or adapt the TV anthology format into comic form? Individual stand-alone issues don't give the issue-to-issue continuity you need to consistently bring in modern readers, and if it's a year long arc, it's not an anthology. The solution: three four-issue arcs that are connected by theme, character, and location... so that in reading one arc you get one side of the story, with its own supernatural or science-fiction elements, then you turn the character around to another character in that sequence who has his or her own story for the next four issues... and then at the end, you connect all of these individual stories into one overlapping tapestry, so you could literally view the book as individual stories as initially published, or layer the pages to create one big story."
Look for details on the rest of the creative team for the new Twilight Zone comic book in the coming weeks.
Signs J. Michael Straczynski to Write Ongoing Series
Posted by ICv2 on July 17, 2013 @ 7:48 am CT
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