here's a quote from Dhcomics.com
http://www.darkhorse.com/zones/horror/editor.php
"A great opportunity came our way when Bruce Campbell, longtime friend of my commandante, Mike Richardson, showed us his upcoming film, Man with the Screaming Brain. Bruce, undisputed king of B-movies thanks to history-making performances in Evil Dead, Army of Darkness, and Bubba Hotep, stars in, directed, and cowrote Screaming Brain with David Goodman who, like Bruce, is a big comics fan, and funny at least on the phone.
Their story features Bruce as a wealthy American industrialist taking advantage of the post-Communist economy of an Eastern Bloc country struggling with the introduction of capitalism. He winds up embroiled with a vengeful Gypsy woman, a former K.G.B. agent, and a mad scientist bent on earning big-time American money for his invention, which makes possible any organ transplant — even brain tissue. The story turns into a bizarre horror yarn combining elements of classic Universal horror films and the earliest pulps. The crumbling Bulgarian setting, the retro horror elements, and Bruce's notorious chin evoke a unique atmosphere that's brought to life in the comic by Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles artist Rick Remender and Hilary Barta, the seldom-seen artist's artist behind Alan Moore's Splash Brannigan.
But the great opportunity that I mentioned above was that unlike other film adaptations, we are not looking at the photography of the film to create the comic. As often happens, financial considerations affected the shooting of the picture — for instance, the original screenplay was altered to make the action take place in a single day, rather than a couple days and nights. Bringing a robot girl alive on film is a lot harder than creating one for a comic, so Rick's imagination was able to go wild, without worrying about what an effects house could actually build and animate. And the list goes on.
The comic version that Dark Horse will be presenting is sort of a director's cut, if you will, with wild designs and dripping with atmosphere reminiscent of James Whale and Wally Wood. To make this even more special for fans of Bruce Campbell, we're offering two covers each issue — double your pleasure with portraits of the chin. Each issue one will be drawn by Rick and Hilary, and the others are drawn by Phil Noto, Humberto Ramos, Eric Powell — whose Goon series matches Screaming Brain in tone and style — and Mike Mignola, operating in his most bizarre mode, recalling his work on The Amazing Screw-On Head. This is one of many Bruce Campbell projects being talked about at Dark Horse, following up on his comics-writing debut with this winter's BMW comic, The Hire: Precious Cargo. Check out the Dark Horse website for updates about other Bruce Campbell projects, as well as sneak peaks of the great covers to this series. If you can handle yer humor scary, or your horror with laughs, be sure to check out Man with the Screaming Brain #1 in May."
This sounds cool that they aren't going to use the movie to influence the art.
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http://www.darkhorse.com/zones/horror/editor.php
"A great opportunity came our way when Bruce Campbell, longtime friend of my commandante, Mike Richardson, showed us his upcoming film, Man with the Screaming Brain. Bruce, undisputed king of B-movies thanks to history-making performances in Evil Dead, Army of Darkness, and Bubba Hotep, stars in, directed, and cowrote Screaming Brain with David Goodman who, like Bruce, is a big comics fan, and funny at least on the phone.
Their story features Bruce as a wealthy American industrialist taking advantage of the post-Communist economy of an Eastern Bloc country struggling with the introduction of capitalism. He winds up embroiled with a vengeful Gypsy woman, a former K.G.B. agent, and a mad scientist bent on earning big-time American money for his invention, which makes possible any organ transplant — even brain tissue. The story turns into a bizarre horror yarn combining elements of classic Universal horror films and the earliest pulps. The crumbling Bulgarian setting, the retro horror elements, and Bruce's notorious chin evoke a unique atmosphere that's brought to life in the comic by Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles artist Rick Remender and Hilary Barta, the seldom-seen artist's artist behind Alan Moore's Splash Brannigan.
But the great opportunity that I mentioned above was that unlike other film adaptations, we are not looking at the photography of the film to create the comic. As often happens, financial considerations affected the shooting of the picture — for instance, the original screenplay was altered to make the action take place in a single day, rather than a couple days and nights. Bringing a robot girl alive on film is a lot harder than creating one for a comic, so Rick's imagination was able to go wild, without worrying about what an effects house could actually build and animate. And the list goes on.
The comic version that Dark Horse will be presenting is sort of a director's cut, if you will, with wild designs and dripping with atmosphere reminiscent of James Whale and Wally Wood. To make this even more special for fans of Bruce Campbell, we're offering two covers each issue — double your pleasure with portraits of the chin. Each issue one will be drawn by Rick and Hilary, and the others are drawn by Phil Noto, Humberto Ramos, Eric Powell — whose Goon series matches Screaming Brain in tone and style — and Mike Mignola, operating in his most bizarre mode, recalling his work on The Amazing Screw-On Head. This is one of many Bruce Campbell projects being talked about at Dark Horse, following up on his comics-writing debut with this winter's BMW comic, The Hire: Precious Cargo. Check out the Dark Horse website for updates about other Bruce Campbell projects, as well as sneak peaks of the great covers to this series. If you can handle yer humor scary, or your horror with laughs, be sure to check out Man with the Screaming Brain #1 in May."
This sounds cool that they aren't going to use the movie to influence the art.
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