DC’s Horror imprint have announced a six-issue series, written by iconic horror comedy actor Bruce Campbell, with art by Eduardo Risso (“100 Bullets”): “DC Horror Presents: Sgt. Rock vs. the Army of the Dead.” Set in 1944, the book will see the Third Reich transform their dead troops into a zombie army, creating the strangest, most horrifying enemy Sgt. Franklin John Rock and his Easy Company have ever faced.
This is not Campbell’s first foray into writing comics, as he previously penned an issue of Dark Horse Comics’ “The Hire,” based on the BMW ad campaign from the early 2000s, and an adaptation of his 2005 feature directorial debut Man with the Screaming Brain. His other writing credits include the 2001 autobiography If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor, and 2005’s semi-autobiographical Make Love! The Bruce Campbell Way.
Sgt. Rock was created by writer Robert Kanigher and artist Joe Kubert in 1959, and first appeared in “Our Army at War” #83. The Nazi-fighting hero proved popular, to the point “Our Army at War” was eventually renamed “Sgt. Rock” in 1977. The character’s most prominent recent appearance came in 2017’s “DC Holiday Special,” via a story written by Tom King with art by Francesco Francavilla.
“DC Horror Presents: Sgt. Rock vs. the Army of the Dead” #1 (of 6) will be released on September 27, with a main cover by Gary Frank, a Duffel Bag Gore variant cover by Frank Quitely, and more variants by Charlie Adlard, Francesco Francavilla, Chris Mooneyham, and Pia Guerra. For more details on those, and to check out Francavilla’s variant, head to DCComics.com.
