Tom King Wants Strange Adventures Comic To Be On Par With FX’s TV Shows

The team of Tom King, Mitch Gerads, and Doc Shaner have a new series from DC Comics' Black Label and putting their own spin on the sci-fi character Adam Strange in Strange Adventures. The new series is available now at local comic shops and on digital markets.

Writer King, joined by artists Gerads and Shaner, all continue to elevate the level of storytelling within their books. Strange Adventures is more than a typical superhero or sci-fi comic book. "This is like your favorite FX show, your favorite HBO show," King told GameSpot at C2E2. "This is a show that at the end you're like, 'Holy crap, I can't believe that happened. That's some dark-a** s***.'

"I like humor in comics. There's laughs in it, but [Strange Adventures] is... It's True Detective. It's Mindhunter. These are guys seeking out the dark corners of the minds and myths and doing something dark and cool. You know that feeling when you first read Watchman, and you lifted up the book and almost the whole world looked a little different? It's almost like someone were playing like a minor key symphony around you or something. Or like the first time you saw Aliens or Alien, that kind of feeling? That's what I'm going for."

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