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Preview: Supernatural Beginning’s End #1
The Winchester brothers have seen it all. They’ve gone toe to toe with hellhounds, come within a tooths length of being vampire food, torched wendigos, and in Dean’s case, been to hell and back. But before all that the Winchesters had some much more ‘normal’ problems to deal with. Well, as normal as things get for the family of hunters, and in SUPERNATURAL BEGINNINGS END we are let in on some family secrets fans have been dying to hear for almost 5 seasons, 3 novels, and 3 comic arcs.
“Picking up several years after the hit RISING SON miniseries, the Winchester clan find themselves in the strangest situation imaginable – monster hunting in the Big Apple! The definitive events that led to Sam leaving his family to attend Stanford, this gripping and horrifying story, courtesy of television series writers Andrew Dabb and Daniel Loflin, will explore the raw nerves of what makes the Winchesters unique and volatile.”
For fans of the show (like myself) this arc sounds like just the thing we’ve been waiting for. With the series reportedly at its planned end according to several reports, these are just the types of loose ends we need tied up. The fallout between Sam and his father has been a key plotpoint since season 1, but never has it been revealed what went on between the two so this should prove to be a pivotal arc for the ongoing series from Wildstorm.
Supernatural Beginnings End #1 hits store shelves January 20th 2010.
IDW Dark and Paramount recently joined forces to launch limited comic book tales set in the worlds of Smile and A Quiet Place, and we’ve learned today that they’ll continue hanging around in those franchise universes with two brand new limited series tales.
Entertainment Weekly has exclusively revealed this afternoon that IDW Dark’s Any Given Smile debuts in September, while A Quiet Place: Rising Tides arrives in November.
First up, from writer Stephanie Williams and artist Pablo Collar, Any Given Smile puts a football-themed twist on Parker Finn’s successful Smile movie franchise.
The five-part limited series is “set in January 1995, during the American Arena League football championship game in St. Augustine, Florida. The rising superstar of the Sharks, backup quarterback Dupree, is feeling the pressure from his teammates, the fans, and also the city’s gambling underworld, to whom he owes a considerable debt. Meanwhile, a sports journalist investigates a string of suicides that may be connected to the big game. At the very least, they are connected to a sinister entity that preys on the minds of its victims.”
From writer Declan Shalvey and artist Luke Sparrow, A Quiet Place: Rising Tides will also be a five-issue limited story. The comic book tale “brings the creatures to the Florida Keys, where a father-daughter duo attempt to survive on water in a houseboat.”
EW further details, “This tense family reunion coincides with the arrival of the vicious creatures that hunt through sound. Grace and her dad find safety on the open ocean, but she’ll have to make landfall sooner or later; the father’s oxygen tank and their supplies are running low, while a hurricane swiftly approaches.”
Learn more about both comic books over on Entertainment Weekly.
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