Horror film veteran Wes Craven (A Nightmare on Elm Street, Scream) has launched his first comic book series, “Coming of Rage,” with plans to adapt for the small screen.
THR writes that the five-issue series was created and written by Craven together with graphic novelist Steve Niles (“30 Days of Night,” “Criminal Macabre,” “Wake the Dead”).
The first three issues of the series have been released together as a special Halloween digital exclusive for Amazon’s Kindle.
“About a year ago, I had the beginning of an unwritten joke come into my head: A Vampire, a Werewolf and a Zombie walk into a bar. Just that. What was the punchline? Who cares – I just liked the sound of it,” Craven said. “My imagination went crazy thinking about what could happen when three such impossibly different characters were thrown together.”
Craven added that when he met with Niles, “we hit it off, and decided to beat out the story of a very special young man’s coming of age, and the two unlikely friends who helped him to survive it. After a bit of hard, fun work, a series of comic books was born, telling not only the story of how these three ended up on the run together, but how the central character, Ritchie, lost his innocence and became one of the most powerful vampires in the world.”
“Wes Craven is not only a great writer, producer and director, he is one of the most knowledgeable people I’ve had the honor to work with,” added Niles. “I not only had fun working on Coming of Rage, I also learned a great deal.”
