Max Allan Collins told an audience in San Diego that he is writing a comic series for Marvel that is based on his Road To Perdition graphic novel and which will chronicle what happened during the six month period that the Michael Sullivan, father and son, were on the road hitting banks where the Capone mob has stashed money.  The bank robbing sequences provided much of the humor in the film version of Road To Perdition, but they represent a compression of what takes place in the graphic novel.  The new Tales From The Road mini-series from Marvel will flesh out these sequences and provide Collins with a chance to revisit the Sullivans in the comic book format in which they were conceived.   This will, of course, mean that the Road to Perdition property will be split between Dc, which published the original graphic novel, and Marvel, with this new series. 

 

Piers Paul Raynor, who illustrated the original graphic novel will do some covers and the final issue of the projected six-issue mini-series. 

 

Collins is also writing two conventional prose novels that will extend the Sullivan saga-- Road To Purgatory and Road To Paradise -- in addition to writing IDW's new comic based on the hit TV series, CSI (see 'CSI Comic From IDW').  Asked what he thought about the film version of Road To Perdition (see 'Road to Perdition Wows Critics'), Collins stated that he liked it a lot, and felt that Sam Mendes actually improved the story by toning down the violence, 'I was very influenced by John Woo at the time I wrote the graphic novel, and I got a little carried away with the action and violence.  The way the film turned out was more in keeping with the general tenor of my writing as a whole.'