Viper Comics is launching an all-new line of horror comics under its new Black Mamba Books imprint.  The first Black Mamba title will be a comic book adaptation of the 1978 cult classic horror spoof Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, which will be published in October 2008.  Dale Mettam is writing the new AotKT comic while Erich Owen is providing the art for this saga of Canada under attack by hordes of angry red vegetables high on lycopene.

 

A new film version of The Attack of the Killer Tomatoes is in development with a script by the noted improvisational comedians Kent Nichols and Douglas Sarine, the creators of the Internet phenomenon Ask a Ninja.  Nichols plans to make his directorial debut with the new AotKT.

 

Viper Comics is currently negotiating with a host of prominent creators involved in the development of the latest wave of horror films in Hollywood with an eye toward expanding the Black Mamba line of horror comics.