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O'Bannon on Returning to "Farscape"by Shaun Manning, Staff Writer
Since the announcement at this year’s Comic Con International that original series creator
Rockne O'Bannon would be providing the story for
BOOM! Studios' “
Farscape” comics, anticipation has run high among fans of much-missed Sci Fi classic. The first four-issue miniseries will be a direct sequel to the “
Peacekeeper Wars,” which closed out “
Farscape's” television run in 2004. With the first issue solicited in this month's Previews catalogue for a November release, CBR News caught up with O'Bannon once again to discuss his initial foray into comics.
In an interview with CBR News during the San Diego convention, O'Bannon said the “
Farscape” comics would allow him to tell stories that were not possible with the budget and production constraints of television. Readers will witness Rygel's return to Hyneria in a quest to reclaim his throne, a plot point the TV writers had always wanted to address but could not because of the complex puppetry and cost that would go into creating a world full of Hynerians. “We had one episode where there was a second Hynerian, and that was just killer,” O'Bannon said in July. The writer also confirmed that Aeryn's new life as a mother would factor into the new stories.
Now, as the release of issue #1 approaches, O’Bannon is still holding further story details close to the vest. Since CCI, though, the full creative team has been announced: “
Farscape” novelist
Keith R.A. DeCandido will be scripting O'Bannon's plots, with Tommy Patterson tackling the art chores...
