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Details On Clive Barker’s New Dark Biblical Comic ‘New Genesis’
Clive Barker has a brand new original comic series coming out from BOOM! Studios that imagines God returning to Earth. Though Barker has written many comics, New Genesis is his first original comic story. The series is co-created by Mark Miller, who describes the series saying, “if God were to come back and tell you how we all got it wrong and what everything really meant.”
“New Genesis” with feature artwork from Haemi Jang (“Hellraiser: The Road Below”). The series will run for 12 issues beginning in May, 2013. More details below.
In “New Genesis” follows Julian Demond, a captain of industry, who believes he is on a mission to discover God, and in the wasteland finds Wick, fostering a relationship with this strange man who claims he is actually the Big Man Upstairs and appears to be just as omnipotent.
Barker said of the series, “We’re making something that is a radical re-reading of ancient structures. It does have the word Genesis in the title, after all. That should be a dead giveaway. I love the idea of stories being about great beginnings and terrible endings.”
“He’s sort of going back to Earth and seeing everything for the first time, so he’s having all these new experiences,” says Matt Gagnon, editor in chief at Boom! “What’s really interesting about his story is how the world reacts to his judgment and seeing the world through his eyes.”
“New Genesis” is filled with dark fantasy, horror and “all the terrible things that happened in the original Genesis,” says Mark Miller, “filled with all the terrible things that happened in the original Genesis,” Miller says.
“That’s one of the things about Clive’s writing, he likes to keep things timeless,” Miller adds, “so he has included these real-life places that are part of our consciousness and understanding the world. And then he burns them to the ground.”
The supernatural world of Korean folk horror movie Exhuma grows larger with the arrival of prequel spinoff webtoon Maengjong this weekend, Variety reports today.
Naver Webtoon debuts Maengjong on May 30.
The series hails from Haemuri (Olgami) and will trace the high school origins of how shaman duo Hwarim and Bonggil, played by Kim Go-eun and Lee Do-hyun in the 2024 film, came together to face occultish threats.
The story is set to begin when “Hwarim, who has been concealing her identity following a childhood encounter with a snake spirit called Jin, crosses paths with Bonggil at their school.”
Variety notes that Exhuma director Jang Jae-hyun participated in the project’s early concept stage.
“We are presenting ‘Maengjong,’ a new series capturing the appeal of the horror-occult genre, ahead of the full summer season,” said Lee Jeong-geun, Naver Webtoon’s Korea webtoon content leader. “With the high school story of Hwarim and Bonggil, who left a strong impression in the film ‘Exhuma,’ enhanced by Haemuri’s characteristic tense direction, we expect it will be a welcome work for genre fans.”
“It is meaningful that the spin-off story of ‘Exhuma,’ loved by many audiences, expands by meeting the new grammar of webtoon,” said Lee Hyeon-jeong, managing director of the film business division at Showbox, which distributed the film. “We hope it will be a fresh experience for both film fans and webtoon readers.”
Exhuma was a breakout hit in 2024, becoming the first Korean occult film to surpass 10 million ticket buyers and the country’s highest-grossing film of the year. I wrote in my review that “the intricately woven Exhuma delivers one of the year’s biggest surprises in horror so far.”
The bond between Hwarim and Bonggil was one of the film’s highlights, making this prequel webtoon a must for fans.
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