Yen Press has announced that it will adapt the first three novels in James Patterson’s Daniel X series into manga. Yen, which has scored a major hit this year with a manga version of Patterson’s Maximum Ride, has commissioned veteran Korean artist Seung-hui Kye to illustrate the Daniel X manga. Kye has published 13 volumes of manhwa in his native
The protagonist of the Young Adult Daniel X series is a 15-year-old alien hunter whose parents have been murdered. His legacy is a purple list of aliens that he must hunt down. Daniel, it turns out is an alien himself, endowed with a most interesting superpower, the ability to create things by thinking about them. The first volume in the superhero-themed Daniel X series, The Dangerous Days of Daniel X, has been optioned for the big screen by New Regency Productions.