Alan Ball and IDW publishing announced that True Blood will now be made into comic books. Yep, it’s true! A book series, a TV show and now comic books, but no worries, the writers won’t be rehashing the same old story lines again, each comic book will have a fresh new story line to follow.
Yesterday, April 2′nd, at WonderCon 2010 in San Francisco, IDW surprised the multitude of fans assembled by announcing it will soon publish the first True Blood comic book.
True Blood issue 1, the first of a six-issue comic series (each issue 32 pages priced at $3.99), will debut in July at the San Diego Comic-Con. “We are working very closely with Alan Ball and all the other writers at HBO,” IDW’s AnnaMaria White told me, “to make it a seamless integration into theTrue Blood world. It’s not gonna be adaptations of the scripts. It’s gonna be additional stories in that world.”
According to the publisher’s official press release, the first story arc will find Sookie Stackhouse and friends ”waiting in Merlotte’s bar for a strangely portentous raging storm to subside. Soon, they discover they’ve been trapped by an entity that feeds off of raw emotions and begins killing off the patrons one by one until his hunger is sated.”
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i Can see the comic and the whole cast at COMIC-CON this summer!
cool! anyone want to sell me a ticket?
Sounds good.
This sounds like True Blood meets Star Trek.
I’m not sure I trust comic book Bill to be as handsome as TV Bill, and without the voice either…
I think I’ll pass.
Holy f*cker! that’s exactly what I thought, too – they’ve recycled an old Star Trek plot. I’ve never been a comic book reader so I’ll take a pass on this one, too.