IDW Publishing has announced that The King is coming to comic books courtesy of award-winning writer Joe R. Lansdale and Bubba Ho-Tep and the Cosmic Blood-Suckers, a prequel to the original Bubba Ho-Tep, which sees Elvis enlisted by President Nixon to defeat an alien threat unlike anything he’s faced before!
“Bubba Ho-Tep was an accidental story that turned out to be my first film adaptation, and it’s still going strong in story and film,” said Lansdale. “And finally, it has inspired a background story that was first a novel, and is now represented in the medium that first made me want to be a writer: comics. Graphic novels. What we used to call Funny Books. I’m excited and looking forward to readers discovering it all in color and looking fine. May more Bubba comics burst into existence and give the world the true story of how the world has been protected from evil, and for quite some time. Thank goodness these defenders are out there, working in the shadows.”
In Bubba Ho-Tep and the Cosmic Blood-Suckers, Elvis Presley and a group of hardcore warriors set out to save the world from an invasion of hive-minded, shape-shifting, vampire-like creatures from a dark dimension. Issue #1 is set to go on sale in March.
