Feb 23, 2010 0
Stephen King Teams with Marvel for Short Story Adaptation
When we think of super heroes, we think of Marvel.
As it turns out, one of our personal super heroes here at TLB, Stephen King, has teamed up with Marvel to create a comic book adaptation of one of his newest short stories, “N.,” originally printed in King’s most recent short story collection, Just After Sunset.
The Marvel version is a four-issue limited series starting in March, adapted by writer Marc Guggenheim with art by Alex Maleev,
Guggenheim and Maleev already adapted “N.” as a motion comic that was released by Marvel in 2008, but they had to re-vamp the story for comic books, expanding the 25 short video episodes into four printed comics, taking the spoken dialogue and making it work in word balloons, and redoing the artwork to tell the story in a sequential format.
The new version will add to the story, with a different beginning and ending, plus new characters.
“N.” tells the story of a psychiatrist who falls victim to the same mysterious obsession as one of his patients—a man simply labeled as “N.” The obsession stems from a visit to a circle of rocks placed in “Ackerman’s Field” on the outskirts of town, and it starts to affect more than just one person.
Here’s to hoping that the new comic book is as catching as the mysterious ailment in the story itself.
And “Here’s to you, Constant Reader,” as King would say.
