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SCOOP : Magdalene Visaggio is to write the Rocky Horror Show comic Word of God to be published by Dark Horse Comics for Hallowe’en
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Backin 2022 , we reported that Dark Horse Comicshad the comic book license to theRocky Horror Picture Show.and were separate that Dark Horse would be release a serial for the then - coming 50th anniversary of theRocky Horror Showstage melodious from 1973 byRichard O’Brien . But 2023 came and went without … event . But at the London Book Fair yesterday , I got Scripture that Dark Horse will be publish theRocky Horror Show#1 comic volume for Halloween 2025 , as the 50th anniversary of the film from 1975.Oh yes , and that it will be written byMagdalene Visaggio .
Magdalene Visaggiois a spectacular comical Koran writer , and her work includes the the like ofKim & Kim , Calamity Kate , Eternity Girl , Transformers , Galaxy Of Madness , Rick And Morty , Doctor Mirage , Rebel MoonandVagrant Queen , which was turned into a SyFy TV series . She is also one of the more prominent trans creators in the North American comic book industry . And she contributed to the Christian Bible of essaysAbsolute Pleasure : Queer Reflections on Five Messy Decades of Rocky Horror .
For those unfamiliar , theRocky Horror Showis a melodic sendup and tribute to science fable and horror B movie from the thirty-something to the fifty , name - dropping as many as it can while trying to turn some of the more queer and kink subtexts of those films into real text . It tells the chronicle of a newly engaged All - American couplet whose car breaks down , who seek aid at a nearby mansion house , home to the foreign transvestite scientist , Dr Frank - N - Furter , who is in the midst of unveil his young Frankenstein - manner world , Rocky . The original London production premiere at Sloane Square ’s Royal Court in 1973 and ran , moving from theatre to theatre until 1980 , while also transferring to Los Angeles and Broadway . adapt into the 1975 picture , The Rocky Horror Picture Show , reprising many of the original stage mould , includingTim Curry , Richard O’Brien , Patricia QuinnandJonathan Adams , as well as US puke memberMeat Loaf , While the film was much less successful , like the play it soon acquire a vast rage following and the plastic film is reputed to have saved many independent cinemas by constantly showing it at midnight showings for years . Still out in limited release in 2025 , 52 years after its premiere , it is the longest - running cinematic handout in picture history .
antecedently , The Rocky Horror Picture Showwas adapted into comics byKevin VanHookas a three - result mini - series by Caliber Comics in 1990 , and collected in a barter paperback , but it has been out of mark for decade . Notably this is theRocky Horror Show , which does differ from the film edition . The collection also include extra Thomas Nelson Page containing song lyrics , profiles , and an interview withRichard O’Brien .
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Rocky Horror Picture Show comic book from 1990
