The Mummy Walks Once more in Skybound’s Upcoming Common Horror Comedian Revival [Exclusive]

/Movie can verify that “Common Monsters: The Mummy” – a reimagining of 1932’s “The Mummy” starring Boris Karloff – is up and hitting comedian e-book shops subsequent 12 months.

This new miniseries is the fourth and ultimate horror comedian e-book partnership between Skybound Leisure & Picture Comics and Common Merchandise and Experiences. Since 2023, Skybound has revealed a themed collection “Common Monsters” which permits horror comedian superstars to reimagine the Common Monsters throughout 4 mini-series. In accordance with the branding, the tales and monsters are specifically designed in line with the original iterations of Universal Horror from the 1930s (i.e. “Frankenstein” by James Whale and Boris Karloff, “Dracula” by Tod Browning and Bela Lugosi, and many others.).

THE The first Skybound “Universal Monsters” comic was “Dracula” by author James Tynion IV and artist Martin Simmonds. Then it was “The Life Creature from the Black Lagoon” by Dan Watters, Ram V and artist Matthew Roberts.” “Frankenstein” (written and drawn by Michael Walsh) completed final November, so “The Mummy” is the subsequent logical selection.

“Common Monsters: The Mummy” can be written and drawn by Religion Erin Hicks, in partnership with colorist Lee Loughridge. Hicks has gained the Eisner Award twice (assume comedian e-book Oscars), successful finest youngsters’s publication in 2014 (for “The Adventures of Superhero Lady”) and 2019 (for “The Metropolis With No Identify”) . Followers of “Avatar: The Final Airbender” might also know Hicks, who wrote and drew several “Avatar” comics at Dark Horse. Explaining why she selected to play “The Mummy,” Hicks mentioned (by way of a press launch):

“What I like most about ‘The Mummy’ is the romance that underlies all of the horror. A mortal defies the traditional gods to carry his lifeless lover again to life and pays the final word value, reworked from 1000’s of years later right into a strolling specter of dying The Mummy is inherently a tragic character pushed by his personal ache and loss, his comprehensible human feelings reworked into actions. view of Helen, the incarnation fashionable function movie of The Mummy, Useless Love, and illustrate its rising consciousness of the harrowing horror lurking within the shadows of early twentieth century Egypt. from “The Mummy” will recognize my interpretation of this romantically horrifying (or horribly romantic) story.

Skybound has shared the primary 4 pages of “Common Monsters: The Mummy” situation #1 and the total catalog of covers for the difficulty. See the covers under and the preview pages within the subsequent slide.

Cowl A by Religion Erin Hicks:

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Cowl B by Joshua Middleton:

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Cowl C by Guillem March (connection variant, 1:10 incentive):

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Cowl D by Joshua Middleton, a black and white variation of Cowl B by Middleton (1:25 immediate):

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Cowl E by Martin Simmonds (incentive 1:50):

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Cowl F by Gabriel Rodriguez (1:75 incentive), with an aluminum variant for canopy G (1:100 incentive):

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Cowl H, the clean sketch variant:

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