You read that headline correctly. Novelist Chuck Palahniuk and artist Cameron Stewart are teaming up to tell a follow-up to Palahniuk’s 1996 novel (which became a cult classic film directed by David Fincher and starring Edward Norton and Brad Pitt) in a 10-issue maxiseries at Dark Horse Comics starting April 8, 2015. It was known that Palahniuk was looking to tell the sequel in comic form, but nothing else was really known. That it’s being published by Dark Horse so soon and being drawn by such a gifted artist as Stewart is huge, as both are pretty much universal producers of quality comics.
According to USA Today, the book takes place both in the future and the past of the first story, picking up on the threads of the novel a decade after where the book wrapped. The narrator is now married to Marla Singer and the have a 9-year-old son together, named Junior. It promises to explore how, even though he knows he shouldn’t, the narrator begins to fail his son in much the same way his own father did.
Many of the same characters from the first novel will return along with Project Mayhem, and the series promises to explore Tyler’s true origins as well.
I really liked what Stewart had to say about the book and its follow-up in the article:
Stewart feels Fight Club 2, especially for those like him who were first exposed to the movie, “is as much a meta-fictional comment on the cultural response to Fight Club as it is a sequel.” And instead of embracing realism, his style for the series tends toward the “cartoony” because it was “more appropriate for the density of the story and for some of its more absurdly comical moments.”
Sounds like a great fit, and honestly, we couldn’t be more excited. Palahniuk will be talking about the book more at SDCC on a panel with David Fincher on Saturday, and as more information comes from it, we’ll get it to you.
Update: The team on this book is a veritable dream team, as Stewart tweeted that Dave Stewart will be coloring it, Nate Piekos will be lettering it, and Scott Allie will be the editor. Palahniuk confirmed on Twitter that David Mack will be providing the covers for the project as well.
