With Hollywood’s increasingly frequent licensing of comics that haven’t been published yet, it’s only fair for comic publishers like the Dabel Brothers to turn the tables and create a six-part adaptation of Malcolm Wong’s screenplay Dog Eaters, which recently won three awards at the Screenwriting Expo 5 in Los Angeles.  Sean J. Jordan will adapt the as yet unproduced script with Chilean illustrator Guillermo A. Angel providing the manga-style pencils.  After releasing Dog Eaters as a six-issue miniseries, the Dabel Brothers plan to publish it in a graphic novel collection.

Set 175 years after an oil crisis-related ecological catastrophe known as the “Die Off” during which 90% of the world’s population was wiped out, Dog Eaters is a gritty post-apocalyptic saga with a title that refers to the nomads who range through the American Southwest and have to eat wild dogs in order to survive.  Against this brutal environment with its “nature red in tooth and claw” Hobbesian struggle for existence the members of the Black Dog Clan struggle to survive and create a viable new form of civilization.

The Dog Eaters mini-series will debut in the fall of 2008.  The Dabel Brothers are planning to produce a preview comic that will be given out at the San Diego Comic-Con.  Screenwriter Malcolm Wong, who lives in Tokyo and directed numerous music videos for Japan's top rock acts during the 1980s and 1990s, will also be at San Diego to promote the Dog Eaters comic book.