Image Comics and Backbone Entertainment have announced that the videogame-inspired Death, Jr. comic book series is coming back for a second run starting this July.  The new series will feature the return of both Ted Naifeh as illustrator and Gary Whitta as writer. The first series, which followed the adventures of the teenage son of the grim reaper, rang up some impressive sales as a periodical and in a stylish trade paperback collection that featured a Mike Mignola cover.

The first Death Jr. series took place during a tumultuous year of high school, but the new series will focus on what Death, Jr. and his band of 'unusual' friends do during their summer vacation.