JamesG
03-20-2019, 05:51 PM
"Altered Carbon" Author Richard K. Morgan Tackling Graphic Novel
by Graeme McMillan
March 20, 2019
Future PI Takeshi Kovacs has made a career of moving between bodies, and now the star of Richard K. Morgan’s cult sci-fi series "Altered Carbon" is moving between mediums once again, going from prose to Netflix and now to comic books, with Dynamite Entertainment announcing a brand-new graphic novel for this summer.
Altered Carbon: Download Blues isn’t just a big deal because of it being the first Kovacs story to be told in comics; it’s also Morgan’s first Kovacs story since 2005’s Woken Furies, the third and final installment in the original Altered Carbon series of novels.
Morgan will co-write the graphic novel with fellow British sci-fi author Rik Hoskin, with Spanish artist Ferran Sellares illustrating.
"When you go to Dynamite for a sequential art incarnation of your much loved anti-hero, you know you’re not going to get short-changed. These, after all, are the guys who took on Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson’s The Boys without blinking. No compromise, no punches pulled," the writer said in a statement.
"I couldn’t wish for a happier, more hard-boiled home in which to have Takeshi Kovacs make his comic book debut."
Although the original series of novels ended more than a decade ago, the property found new life last year with the debut of a live-action adaptation on Netflix starring Joel Kinnaman, which was popular enough not only to earn a second season, but also an animated feature further exploring the mythology of the series from Cowboy Bebop writer Dai Sato.
According to Dynamite, Altered Carbon: Download Blues will be released in May.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/altered-carbon-richard-k-morgan-tackling-graphic-novel-1195924
by Graeme McMillan
March 20, 2019
Future PI Takeshi Kovacs has made a career of moving between bodies, and now the star of Richard K. Morgan’s cult sci-fi series "Altered Carbon" is moving between mediums once again, going from prose to Netflix and now to comic books, with Dynamite Entertainment announcing a brand-new graphic novel for this summer.
Altered Carbon: Download Blues isn’t just a big deal because of it being the first Kovacs story to be told in comics; it’s also Morgan’s first Kovacs story since 2005’s Woken Furies, the third and final installment in the original Altered Carbon series of novels.
Morgan will co-write the graphic novel with fellow British sci-fi author Rik Hoskin, with Spanish artist Ferran Sellares illustrating.
"When you go to Dynamite for a sequential art incarnation of your much loved anti-hero, you know you’re not going to get short-changed. These, after all, are the guys who took on Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson’s The Boys without blinking. No compromise, no punches pulled," the writer said in a statement.
"I couldn’t wish for a happier, more hard-boiled home in which to have Takeshi Kovacs make his comic book debut."
Although the original series of novels ended more than a decade ago, the property found new life last year with the debut of a live-action adaptation on Netflix starring Joel Kinnaman, which was popular enough not only to earn a second season, but also an animated feature further exploring the mythology of the series from Cowboy Bebop writer Dai Sato.
According to Dynamite, Altered Carbon: Download Blues will be released in May.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/altered-carbon-richard-k-morgan-tackling-graphic-novel-1195924