Eibon Press Exclusive: UNEDITED Maniac Cover

Steve Barton |

Sep 8, 2017

Sometimes in order to truly appreciate something, you need to see it in all its unedited glory. Such is the case with Eibon Press’ cover for their upcoming adaptation of Maniac! Check it out along with the cover for Laserblast right here, right now!

The first issue of Maniac grabs the reader from page one, getting right inside Frank Zito’s head with the famous “I warned you not to go out tonight” inner monologue… then quickly becomes a bloodbath, as Frank’s nightmare consumes him.

Says Stephen Romano: “The opening dream sequence that begins the first comic is a real tour de force for our artist. It’s 30 panels over two pages showing exactly what Frank does, and it’s one of the darkest, most violent sequences in horror comics history! It’s a statement about what we’re doing with the whole VHS comics line. We’re honoring these classic movies by expanding them. We even have some incredible extra stuff, like a whole additional chapter of backstory on Frank Zito, as seen through the eyes of his biographer… and the first issue ends with an epic exclusive bonus interview with director William Lustig, where he really dished out some dirt. It’s an incredible start to the series. And just wait until you hear about that big surprise we have in the next issue! Heads will roll…”

Laserblast, is a “progressive” retelling of the classic Charles Band schlock horror favorite. Says Romano, “With this one, it was a chance to take a great idea and a killer brand—I mean, how awesome is a title like Laserblast, right?—and give it a new life in a new medium. People remember the movie because of the cool central premise and the fact that it was on ‘Mystery Science Theater 3000’… but I always saw a much darker, more terrifying ideal at the center of everything. What we’ve done is take the story of the film, and the same characters—you’ll see Kim Milford and Eddie Deezen in there, just like they were in the movie—but we’re really getting a lot deeper and more radical with it. If you’ve read our other comics, you know we don’t just like to trot the movie out in sequential art form, exactly as it was done before—that’s boring and very antiquated thinking. It’s more logical with a film like Laserblast to re-invent it as something bigger, bolder and brainer. It’s also really super gory and ultra-violent, like all our other stuff. No PG rated kiddie crap here.”

Maniac and Laserblast will be released simultaneously on OCTOBER 13, at the Eibon Press website. You can only get them there. These comics are never in retail stores. Says Romano: “That is how we’re able to make these books so elaborate and cool—not just in the extras, but in the story and art and other things. We don’t have to deal with all the bullshit of distributing books through traditional channels, and we only do six releases per year at the moment… so we can take extra time and care, spend a little more money, and create end product that’s head and shoulders above the others. And we don’t put these things out in collections, either. That’s also old thinking. Each issue of every comic series is an event with us. Our goal is to make collecting single issue comics GREAT again.”

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