IDW Publishing has announced a four-issue comic book adaptation of Richard Matheson’s sci-fi novel The Shrinking Man courtesy of writer Ted Adams and artist Mark Torres.
“Running IDW keeps me busy so I don’t have as much time to write as I’d like but when we decided to adapt Matheson’s classic novel, I knew I had to find the time,” said Adams. “This isn’t just a great adventure story, it’s also an exploration into what it means to be a man when you can no longer provide for or protect your family.”
The Shrinking Man chronicles the events of an average family man, Scott Carey, who, after being exposed to a mysterious cloud, comes to the frightening realization that he is shrinking slowly day-by-day. His everyday existence as a husband and father is thrown into chaos as he struggles with not just shrinking smaller and smaller but with the possibility that he may disappear all together. All ideas of normal fade as Carey becomes a national spectacle and his family converts into unreachable giants. He is pushed to the very limits of fear and existence with each passing day becoming a struggle just to survive.
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Originally published March 29, 2015. Updated April 14, 2018.
