| If you pine for the days of big hair, shoulder pads, and Don Johnson’s pastel linen jackets, rejoice! The St. Louis-based digital publisher Lions Gate has announced a partnership with NBCUniversal that will bring five classic TV shows back as digital comics: Airwolf, Knight Rider, Miami Vice, Punky Brewster, and Saved by the Bell. Enterprising comics publishers have been drawing in the fans of canceled TV series (generally a small group for TV but a large group for comics) with comics sequels for a while now, from Dark Horse’s revival of Buffy the Vampire Slayer to DC’s digital-first Smallville, and in February, IDW announced it would publish a line of comics based on Cartoon Network properties. Lion Forge jumps onto the bandwagon with a quintet of digital comics series that will bring back some iconic properties. The writing team all seem to have more experience with television and film than comics: Joelle Sellner, who has written a number of animated shows including Teen Titans and an Olsen Twins cartoon, as well as comics for IDW and Marvel; Jonathan London, a film writer and director who hosts the Geekscape podcast; Geoffrey Thorne, who began his career as an actor and then became a writer, and whose credits include scripts for Leverage, and Ben 10 and Star Trek novels as well as a couple of comics; and David Gorden, writer of the Lion Forge comic Catalyst Prime: Accel. The visuals will be handled by Lion Forge artists Jason Johnson (Wetworks) Carl Reed, and Lorenzo Lizana. The comics will start coming out in the fall and winter of this year and will be available via Kindle, Nook, Kobo, and iBooks. Miami Vice, Punky Brewster to Storm Your E-Reader is a post from: E-Reader News |
Friday, July 5, 2013
Miami Vice, Punky Brewster to Storm Your E-Reader
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