According to the folks over at TV Guide, Marvel Entertainment and ABC Studios have teamed up to create a hard-cover graphic novel inspired by ABC’s Castle. It is entitled “Richard Castle’s Deadly Storm“. It is the first partnership between Marvel and ABC since Disney, which owns ABC, acquired Marvel last year.
The book focuses on Derrick Storm, the protagonist of Richard Castle’s most popular series of novels. Viewers may recall that Castle (Nathan Fillion) began following Beckett (Stana Katic) for inspiration for a new series of books after he made the decision to kill off Derrick Storm, with whom he’d become bored.
The 112-page graphic novel will be written by Brian Michael Bendis (Avengers, Ultimate Comics Spider-Man) and Kelly Sue DeConnick (Captain America and The Secret Avengers). Lan Medina (Fables) will handle the interior art; Carlo Pagulayan (Planet Hulk) created the cover art, which can be seen here.
This is the latest branding experiment ABC has tried with Castle. The network has already teamed with Hyperion Books to publish two novels — Heat Wave and Naked Heat — that parallel Castle’s work with Beckett, the inspiration for the author’s heroine Nikki Heat. A third book, Heat Rises, is due in the fall. ABC also launched RichardCastle.Net in April.
Richard Castle’s Deadly Storm will be available in stores in September 2011.
Thanks to TV Guide for the above information.
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