Double Take Wants You To Binge on the Living Dead
Steve Barton
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Double Take has something lengthy and spooky for you to chew on this Halloween season, as they’re offering up to comic-book box sets that are just brimming with gruesome! Read on for the details.
From the Press Release:
These vibrant, diverse stories—set in the universe established by the 1968 film Night of the Living Dead—are much more than a compilation of the five episodes which 2T published as comic books during the past year. Ten teams of artists, writers, and editors spent 45 days re-drawing, re-writing, and re-ordering each five-episode series so that they are more like “director’s cuts.”
The books will be available at local comic shops, bookstores, and online. Each graphic novel retails for $9.99. 2T has also bundled the graphic novels into two distinct collections of five books each. The “Living Dead Revival” Binge Box features Rise, Slab, Medic, Soul, and Honor: stories that all follow favorite characters from the 1968 cult classic from their last dying breaths to their first zombie steps. While the “Superheroes Rising” Binge Box includes Dedication, Spring, Z-Men, Remote, and Home: fun, original stories featuring uncanny superheroes, Secret Service agents, and even a 51-foot tall woman. Each Binge Box retails for $40.00.
Sixteen years ago, Bill Jemas played a lead role on the team that transformed Marvel from an insolvent comic book publisher and toy manufacturer into a world-class entertainment company. In 2013, Take-Two Interactive Software hired Jemas to start Double Take.
Bill and his team commissioned a new generation of creators to deliver a wonderfully diverse and exciting universe with everything from hordes of walking dead to teams of superheroes, from mad scientists to attractive aliens.
“We believe that Double Take is producing some of the best comic books in the industry,” said Michael Coast, senior Story Editor at 2T. “Our books appeal not just to hardcore comic book fans, but to readers who are new to graphic novels as well.”
In conjunction with their graphic novels, 2T has developed the world’s first native mobile comic book player. Using panels to create a stop-motion animation effect to bring each story to life, the mobile player gives readers the optimal digital reading experience.
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