First Look: CHUCK the Comic Book
May 21, 2008 by Kath Skerry
Having CHUCK withdrawals and don’t want to wait until September to see what’s going on with our favorite Buy More Super Spy? You’re in luck because the adventures of Chuck Bartowski are about to jump off the small screen and into the pages of a comic book. Starting June 11th WildStorm will kick off a six-issue series comic featuring characters from the hit NBC show.
“Since we can do absolutely anything in a comic book, we’re going to take Chuck Bartowski out of the confines of the Buy More store and put him on crazy, globe-trotting spy adventures a la James Bond,” says co-writer writer Peter Johnson. The first issue centers around a plot that finds Chuck “at the big, bad high-tech Supermax prison in Tokyo where he’ll confront all the villains he’s helped put away in the series,” says Johnson. “We’ll also send him to Rio and Moscow. It’s what would happen if Chuck was a $300 million Hollywood blockbuster.”
So what can we expect to see in future issues? According to Johnson, “the comic will go back and explore Chuck and Morgan as kids. We’ll see what Chuck and Bryce were like in college. We’ll do Bryce and Sarah spy stories. The series will also flash-forward to a speculative, alternate universe kind of future in which Chuck and Sarah are married.”
And just in case you thought he was just a pretty face, CHUCK star Zachary Levi is on board to pen one of the comics.
I haven’t been into comics since I was reading the old Richie Rich and Archie comics back when I was a kid, but I’m definitely going to be checking out the CHUCK comics. And something tells me I might be able to snag a few for a giveaway at Comic Con.
Here’s a sneak peek at the first five pages:
Related Posts
Filed under Chuck
That is so NEAT! Thanks for sharing that, Kath. It sounds like a fun idea … and having Chuck back before *Chuck* is back is a great idea any way you look at it!
Also – Chuck and Sarah married in a alternate universe future? Chuck and Morgan as kids??? Awesome. 🙂
[…] Para los que no podáis esperar al estreno de la segunda temporada el próximo otoño, o los que queráis adelantaros al estreno de Calle 13 comprando estos cómics, decir que la fecha de salida a la venta del primer número en Estados Unidos será el próximo 11 de junio, y que la colección completa tendrá, por ahora, seis números. De momento, también han sacado varias imágenes de muestra. […]
Comics love on GMMR? Cool.
Personally, I think I would rather read one big 6-issue storyline, then six standalones, but they could be good. I may wait for the trade though (for those who don’t know, pretty much every comic series, gets collected in a nice trade paperback when they are finished, which is often the better way to read them).
And I think I’ve mentioned this is the comments before, but there also exists a Buffy comic called “Buffy: Season Eight.” There have also been some Serenity/Firefly comics (but I didn’t find them to be all the extra special).
OMG, the art is FANTASTIC!! It looks just like them. Unlike Buffy and Angel, where they capture the real characters *occasionally*. This is gonna be (lol) awesome.