BOOM! Studios has pushed back the release date of the first Farscape comic book from November to 24 December, but they’ve released three (count ’em, three) different covers that will grace the book.
Boom!’s Marketing and Sales Director Chip Mosher said “We originally solicited this for November, but we pushed back the release because we had to make sure the book was the best product possible for fans awaiting Farscape‘s return. And let me tell you, it will be worth the wait!”
Farscape #1 is written by television series creator Rockne O’Bannon with script by Keith R.A. DeCandido, interior art by Tommy Patterson and cover art by Dennis Calero and Joseph Corroney. It picks immediately after the television miniseries Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars, and show creator O’Bannon expects to steer the characters into new and original stories, keeping with the existing canon—and then extending it.
The original series, which debuted on the Sci-Fi Channel in 1998, “follows the adventures of astronaut John Crichton, who has a freak accident during an experimental space mission that catapults him across a thousand galaxies to an alien battlefield. Suddenly, he’s trapped among alien creatures wielding deadly technology—a battle that 20th century sci-fi pop culture never prepared him for. Hunted by a merciless military race, Crichton begins his quest for home from a distant galaxy.”