TOKYOPOP has announced that it is set to follow Zero’s Journey and Mirror Moon with a third instalment in their original The Nightmare Before Christmas comic book series, Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas: The Battle for Pumpkin King, launching in March 2023.
The five issue series is written by Dan Conner (Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas: Zero’s Journey), with story by Shaun McLaughlin and D.J. Milky, and art from Deborah Allo and Roberto Scalia, and serves as a prequel to the classic 1993 stop motion animated film exploring the the friendship and inevitable rivalry between Jack Skellington and Oogie Boogie.
Jack Skellington is the undisputed Pumpkin King of Halloween Town. But it wasn’t always that way…
Years ago, Jack and Oogie Boogie were close friends. Eager to prove themselves, they poured all their passion into their spooky projects to earn their rightful place as the scariest duo in town. But there could only be one Pumpkin King! What could have happened to turn two best friends into such bitter rivals?
Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas: The Battle for Pumpkin King #1 will go on sale in March 2023, and the full five-issue series will be collected as a graphic novel for release at Halloween 2023.
