Comic-Con News:  Bongo Comics has announced a six-issue comic book miniseries based on the narrative of Coldplay’s Mylo Xyloto, the band’s fifth studio album, which was released in 2011 and has sold over 34 million copies worldwide.  The story behind the Mylo Xyloto album was conceived by the band in conjunction with the Academy Award-nominated writer and director Mark Osborne (Kung-Fu Panda, The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie).

 

A spokesperson for the band commented: "Three years ago we had an idea with our friend Mark Osborne about a character called Mylo Xyloto -- "xylo" as in xylophone, "to" as in toe.  Gradually Mylo's story and universe came together and this ended up providing the backdrop for the album and tour.  Now we're proud to announce that early next year the story is going to come out as a six-part comic.  We hope you like it. It was fun making it."

 

According to Osborne, the original idea was to create an animated feature film based on the saga of Mylo Xyloto, though he appears to be happy to see the property come out first as a comic: "The comic is the latest expression of a music-driven feature animated film that band and I started developing several years ago.  It is the story of Mylo Xyloto, a young Silencer on the front lines of a war against sound and color in the world of Silencia.  Mylo discovers that the enemy he's been trained to hate his whole life might not be the enemy after all.  There will hopefully be many, many connections for people who have heard the album.  I am beyond thrilled with the way it's turned out.”

 

Copies of the first issue of the Mylo Xyloto comic with a special variant cover will be available at Comic-Con, where a panel featuring the production team for the comic will hold a panel on July 13th.  The six-part miniseries will be available starting with the first issue in February of 2013 with subsequent issues due out on a monthly basis thereafter.