Comic-Con News: Dynamite Entertainment announced today that The Last Temptation, the 1994 collaboration between bestselling writer Neil Gaiman and rock and roll icon Alice Cooper with art by Michael Zulli, will return in a fully-remastered deluxe 20th Anniversary Edition, the first printing of the material since its original Marvel comics run that will be in full color. 
 
The Last Temptation graphic novel was originally released in three installments in 1994 as a companion to the Alice Cooper album of the same name.  In the story, a boy named Steven (based on a character introduced in Cooper’s landmark Welcome to My Nightmare album) is tempted by an enigmatic showman (Cooper) to join his carnival.
 
The original The Last Temptation graphic novel has been out of print for over a decade and Gaiman is happy to see it back in print, “I'm really happy that The Last Temptation is coming out for a new generation of readers, who have not seen Michael Zulli's glorious drawings, or know of the Showman and his wicked ways.  I wrote this a long time ago, driven by love of Ray Bradbury's dark carnivals and of Alice Cooper's own pandemonium shadow show.  It's time for it to shuffle out onto a leaf-covered street and meet the people who don't know about Stephen and Mercy and show what's coming to town.”
 
Cooper appears equally pleased that a new version of The Last Temptation will be released to a new generation of fans, "I sign a ton of The Last Temptation comics after my shows.  I was thumbing through one of them the other day and I realized that it's almost the 20th anniversary of them, but you wouldn't know it because the stories are still so relatable.  The conceits and themes are still relevant - the fear of growing up, the desire to stay young and shirk responsibility.  It only becomes more tempting as you age.  Like all good horror stories and nightmares, it's a morality tale.  It speaks to something bigger than our personal wants and needs, bigger than our cultural principles.  The new generation of readers will be thrilled by this sideshow as the first readers in 1994 were, and those reading it again for the first time in a decade or two will be surprised how real the nightmare and the temptation still is."