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Peek Inside the Pages of Issue #2 of Eibon Press’s ‘Maniac’ Comic Book, Available Now
Available now in a Standard Edition. Signed VHS Box Edition and “Psycho Fan” Personalized Set, the second issue of Eibon Press‘s 3-issue comic series set in the world of William Lustig’s Maniac not only continues the story of sweaty slasher Frank Zito, but it also begins the cross-over between Maniac and Lucio Fulci’s The New York Ripper!
Eibon’s Stephen Romano teases the new issue, “The whole MANIAC comic series was something we really wanted to do on an artistic level. This wasn’t a business decision. We weren’t looking at demographics or whatever and saying “oh this will be a big hit!” We wanted to do this adaptation because it’s kind of a unique movie in the 1980s horror slasher pantheon. In the wake of Carpenter’s HALLOWEEN, you had all these movies that were about the victims, which is great and we love that. It’s as it should be. We need to identify with the survivors of these massacres, in order to have any empathy. But if I am honest as a writer and also as a survivor of violent crime myself, what interests me more is what goes on inside the heads of people who actually do these crimes. I don’t identify with them, obviously, but I want to know what makes them tick. To me, that’s true horror.”
“Frank Zito is an uncomfortable creation in that way. We are forced to KNOW HIM in the film, because he is the main character, and it’s not a worldview we like. So for the comic book, we take it all a quantum leap further and really get inside his head. In Issue 2, we go pretty far with that, and he meets up with his one true love, Anna D’Antoni, as played by Caroline Munro in the film. In the comic script, she is expanded and deepened and her relationship with Frank is darker and more complex. I always wondered why those two hit it off so well in the movie, and we answer that question here.”
“Of course, what the fans REALLY want in issue #2 is what we’ve been teasing for over a year now, and that’s the MANIAC VS. NEW YORK RIPPER battle. That was also fertile fields for exploring real horror, and in that case we deal more with the psychology of the victim, and how each killer perceives her. They are each obsessed with the same girl, and she is doomed of course, but the fascinating thing is both Frank and The Ripper think they are the heroes of their own lives. Everybody does. Even these sick, deranged lunatics who to all these despicable things. When you start really getting into the psychology of that, you start really getting scared. And that’s what this series is all about.”
Check out an exclusive page from Issue #2 below, and grab your copy from Eibon Press!
Issue #3 of Maniac, the final chapter, will be available in December.
IDW Dark and Paramount recently joined forces to launch limited comic book tales set in the worlds of Smile and A Quiet Place, and we’ve learned today that they’ll continue hanging around in those franchise universes with two brand new limited series tales.
Entertainment Weekly has exclusively revealed this afternoon that IDW Dark’s Any Given Smile debuts in September, while A Quiet Place: Rising Tides arrives in November.
First up, from writer Stephanie Williams and artist Pablo Collar, Any Given Smile puts a football-themed twist on Parker Finn’s successful Smile movie franchise.
The five-part limited series is “set in January 1995, during the American Arena League football championship game in St. Augustine, Florida. The rising superstar of the Sharks, backup quarterback Dupree, is feeling the pressure from his teammates, the fans, and also the city’s gambling underworld, to whom he owes a considerable debt. Meanwhile, a sports journalist investigates a string of suicides that may be connected to the big game. At the very least, they are connected to a sinister entity that preys on the minds of its victims.”
From writer Declan Shalvey and artist Luke Sparrow, A Quiet Place: Rising Tides will also be a five-issue limited story. The comic book tale “brings the creatures to the Florida Keys, where a father-daughter duo attempt to survive on water in a houseboat.”
EW further details, “This tense family reunion coincides with the arrival of the vicious creatures that hunt through sound. Grace and her dad find safety on the open ocean, but she’ll have to make landfall sooner or later; the father’s oxygen tank and their supplies are running low, while a hurricane swiftly approaches.”
Learn more about both comic books over on Entertainment Weekly.
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