Love live the king, baby.
Back in October, Bubba Ho-Tep writer Joe R. Lansdale released Bubba Ho-Tep and the Cosmic Blood-Suckers, a prequel to the novella that was turned into Phantasm director Don Coscarelli’s 2002 film. Now, the prequel is becoming a comic book!
Via THR today, Elvis will battle aliens in IDW Publishing’s Bubba Ho-Tep and the Cosmic Blood-Suckers, co-written by Lansdale and Joshua Jabcuga.
In the forthcoming series, arriving in March 2018…
“President Richard Nixon has uncovered a potential threat from beyond the stars, but there’s only one man who could possibly safeguard the world as we know it: Elvis Aaron Presley.”
“Bubba Ho-Tep was an accidental story that turned out to be my first film adaptation, and it’s still going strong in story and film,” Lansdale told the site. “And finally, it has inspired a background story that was first a novel, and is now represented in the medium that first made me want to be a writer: Comics. Graphic novels. What we used to call Funny Books. I’m excited and looking forward to readers discovering it all in color and looking fine.”
He added, teasing the future, “May more Bubba comics burst into existence and give the world the true story of how the world has been protected from evil, and for quite some time. Thank goodness these defenders are out there, working in the shadows.”
