Thanks to The Daily Beast for the heads-up on the latest in the world of comics – Stephen King!
The man just can’t stop writing, and it works, so I guess he decided to try something new. He’s been publishing books left, right and center for 35 years, since his first book – the chilling tale of a telekinetic teen with a psychotic mother, Carrie – first hit the shelves in 1974. In that time he’s written upwards of 60 novels, as well as loads of short fiction, writing instructions and more. And now, perhaps bored and looking for something fresh, perhaps titillated by a comic he’s read, perhaps aware that both comics and vampires are enjoying a lot of popularity of late and jumping on the ol’ bandwagon (*ahem*), he’s writing a vampire comic book.
The book, titled American Vampire will begin releasing issues in March, through Vertigo (an imprint of DC), and King is on board for the first five issues.
I have to admit – I’m curious. I haven’t read anything new of Stephen King in years because it all started to seem the same to me, but if he’s excited about something fresh in a new medium, he might just rock it – back in the days of Misery, It and Cujo, he could scare the bejesus out of me with the best of them.
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