WonderCon 2010: IDW Announces 'True Blood' Comic Book
Updated on 4/6/10: For the first two days of this weekend's Wondercon we weren't able to get a great look at IDW's banner heralding the publisher's new True Blood comic book, since the banner was largely obscured by the rest of the booth. But on Sunday, before the con ended, IDW moved the banner, and hung it on the opposite side of the booth, allowing our intrepid photographer Sophia Quach to nail a good shot. Hit the jump for the full banner image, and to get an idea of how the True Blood cast will appear in the comic.
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 the True Blood world. It's not gonna be adaptations of the scripts. It's gonna be additional stories in that world."
The comic's story was developed with Ball, along with series writers Elisabeth Finch and Kate Barnow. It's co-written by David Tischman and Mariah Huehner, with interior and cover art by David Messina. Fan-favorite artist J. Scott Campbell (no stranger to portraying the same kind of sexy that's made True Blood famous) will provide variant covers for each issue.
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."
IDW had a pretty sweet banner promoting the comic at their booth, as can be seen above.
And they transformed their booth into a miniature version of Merlotte's, with fetching waitresses serving the official True Blood drink (actually a carbonated fruit beverage) to attendees...
Of greatest interest to True Blood fans, however, may be Alan Ball's thoughts on the comic project, which the TV maestro shared in a special video released today, and uploaded to DailyMotion by our friends at Dread Central...
True Blood - A Message from Alan Ball: Comic Book Series
Uploaded by dreadcentral. - Classic TV and last night's shows, online.
Photos by Sophia Quach
