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Boom! Studios announces Grant Morrison’s Santa Claus origin series Klaus

July 2, 2015 by Gary Collinson

Ahead of the San Diego Comic-Con International, Boom! Studios has revealed details of its new project from acclaimed writer Grant Morrison, who is teaming with artist Dan Mora (Hexed) for the six-issue Santa Claus origin series Klaus. Here’s the cover to the first issue, via CBR…

“Weirdly enough, no one’s done the origin story [of Santa Claus],” said Morrison. “I wanted to do this, because my take on it was just to do it like a superhero. I think no one’s done that, and it was weird that no one’s thought about that character — what was he like when he was young? How did he get the sack? How did he get the reindeer? How did he get the sleigh? It seemed like such an obvious story… The first image that came to me, and this kind of sums it all up, is this ferocious-looking, almost Conan the Barbarian young man with black hair and a black beard, the snow is coming down onto him, it’s turning his hair and beard white. That was the image that came to me first. It really became about that. We’ve never seen him young. We’ve never seen how the hell this happened — how did he get to be Santa Claus? It seemed such an obvious, ridiculous idea, that I really seized on it and it became a kind of Lord of the Rings meets Batman Begins.”

Klaus is slated to get underway in November.

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Filed Under: Comic Books, Gary Collinson, News Tagged With: Boom! Studios, Grant Morrison, Klaus

About Gary Collinson

Gary Collinson is a film, TV and digital content producer and writer, who is the founder of the pop culture website Flickering Myth and producer of the gothic horror feature film 'The Baby in the Basket' and the upcoming suspense thriller 'Death Among the Pines'.

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