IDW Publishing’s Gem of the Month in May PREVIEWS was, unsurprisingly, the much-anticipated True Blood, a series closely tied to HBO’s Emmy Award-winning show from creator Alan Ball. With Ball co-writing the story with David Tischman and Mariah Huehner and art by David Messina, it should also come as no surprise that this new comic is receiving a great deal of media attention.
A story entitled “‘Blood’ seeps from books to TV and, now, comics” dominated the front page of USA Today’s Life section on May 13. In addition to the piece touching on the six issue series and its connection to the HBO show – which can be read online at usatoday.com, the print edition also showed one of the first issue’s covers and an interior page from Messina.
HBO is also running a full 10-page preview of issue one at their True Blood Facebook page, so you and your customers can get a good look at the first issue as you're both weighing your ordering decisions.
If all this weren’t enough, creator Alan Ball has also been extremely vocal in his support of his comic since it was first announced.
"I am very excited to be introducing the True Blood comic book series," stated Ball. "These graphic novels are a great companion to the series and we are pleased that the popularity of the show is allowing it to branch out into different mediums."
The comic series will explore the ongoing adventures of telepathic heroine Sookie Stackhouse, her vampire lover Bill Compton, best friend Tara Thornton, enigmatic and ancient vampire sheriff Eric Northman, loyal boss Sam Merlotte, brother Jason Stackhouse, perpetual-virgin vampire Jessica, and the flamboyant cook/drug dealer Lafayette Reynolds.
In the first storyline, Sookie and the rest of the Bon Temps find themselves waiting in Merlotte's bar for a strangely portentous raging storm to subside. Soon, they discover they've been trapped by an entity that feeds off of raw emotions and begins killing off the patrons one by one until his hunger is sated.
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