Issue 182: Who Has Been Sleeping in My Body Bag?
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San Diego Comic Con has come and gone, and I missed it. This year, it was just impossible for me to go. I couldn’t afford the trip. I couldn’t afford the time away from work. I always feel like I’m missing out… mainly on tiki drinks and lovely weather… and this year was no exception.
I have been distracting myself with another Scriptpocalypse, getting a bunch of scripts done, and by preparing e-mails to auto-send to publishers and editors once they are back from the convention.
There are always a bunch of announcements associated with the convention, and here are a few that are particularly important to me. (Yes, you might have seen these in previous posts, but consider this a reminder!)
INVASIVE COMING FROM ONI PRESS - This is a dark, DARK horror limited series about surgery addiction and hidden horror hospitals and murder surgeons. https://screenrant.com/cullen-bunn-invasive-oni-press-horror-comic-exclusive/
THE MIDNITE SHOW FROM DARK HORSE - Popcorn horror at its finest as my pal Brian Hurtt and I unleash a horde of classic horror movie icons upon the world! https://www.comicsbeat.com/the-midnite-show-dark-horse-comics/
DEADPOOL: SEVEN SLAUGHTERS - I’m returning to Deadpool for a 10-page short story coming in November. https://www.thepopverse.com/deadpool-seven-slaughters-marvel-rob-liefeld-cullen-bunn-gail-simone-greg-land-greg-capullo
There were also a couple of announcements and stealth announcements that did not include my name but are connected to me. Clever detectives can probably suss out which projects I’m talking about. Otherwise, I’ll announce those when I can!
There’s one more announcement that came out during SDCC, maybe not a big convention announcement, but a pretty cool one nonetheless!
You’ve heard of variant covers… well get ready for variant interiors with CULLEN BUNN’S BODY BAG!
From the Eisner-nominated pages of Harrow County to the pre-pandemic prescience of The Empty Man, Cullen Bunn has made a prolific career of terrorizing comic fans. Now the man who killed the Marvel Universe and countless other characters is ready to show you where the bodies are buried… Cullen Bunn's Body Bag, the debut release of Overlook, will introduce the world to four new creatures straight from the twisted imagination of the horror scribe. But which creature will invade your nightmares?
Four different tales of terror. Four startling new monsters. Four different approaches to the beasts that go bump in the night. Each sealed "Body Bag" contains the chance to uncover alternate storylines and monsters. So tread lightly. Hold your breath. There's no way of telling which monster you'll uncover… until you unzip the body bag.
With each monster you'll see a very different story play out in a gruesome and frightening way… This is pure, horrific fun on the page!
You might notice the title OVERLOOK on the side of the body bag.
Well…
Overlook is an initiative I embarked on a while back with my Hustle & Heart partner Heath Amodio and Aengus Mcloone.
At Overlook Multimedia, we’re fans of great stories above all else. Whether they’re told through comics, television, film, games, or podcasts the best stories stay with you forever. Our favorite medium by far is comics, and it’s our goal to make books that you want to return to time and time again. With Overlook, we’ve set out to work with people we’re fans of from every industry, bringing our favorite storytellers into the comic book medium we love. So first, we started to reach out to the writers, directors, producers, and actors of our favorite television shows and films. People who truly know how to tell gripping timeless stories. We’re both humbled and blown away by the caliber of collaborations we’ve got in the works for you. Especially when if comes to some haunting horror, terrifying science fiction, and mind-bending fantasy. Everyone launches their new endeavors by saying they’re going to change the game. We don’t want to do that. We want start a whole new one.
Here’s my Scriptpocalypse update! I feel like I haven’t been as I was last time around. Maybe this is a Mini-Scriptpocalypse.
130 pages of comic book scripts.
An outline for a horror novel.
Several comic book lettering passes.
Two chapters of a new RAZE novella.
Several interviews.
A few Patreon posts.
A couple of issues of this newsletter.
The Kickstarter campaign for THE SIXTH GUN has a few days left! Now is the time to back the campaign! Get in on these gorgeous hardcover collections before it’s too late! We’re approaching our next stretch goal, and we still have some awesome surprises on the horizon!
And, of course, expect another email right before the campaign ends!
DOOR TO DOOR, NIGHT BY NIGHT TPB Vol. 1
It’s 1987, and the Heritage Mills sales team travels from town to town, knocking on doors. They're the best at what they do... which also means they're the worst. They're broken, each and every one of them, haunted by closets so full of skeletons, they’re bursting. When they discover a terrible secret behind one fateful door, it opens their eyes to a world full of real monsters hidden in every small town.
Knock, knock. What’s there? Open the door if you dare…
From all-star creators, writer Cullen Bunn (Harrow County, The Last Book You’ll Ever Read) and artist Sally Cantirino (I Walk With Monsters, Human Remains) comes the story of a motley crew going to battle against supernatural evil throughout the American South.
Still watching BETTER CALL SAUL with the family as time allows. Man, this show his firing on all cylinders for me. Mike’s “I broke my boy” monologue is one of the most heartbreaking things I’ve seen on television. And I think it’s something every dad has felt to some degree. I can’t stop thinking about it.
Here is a quick and dirty list of upcoming projects. In most cases, I’m only listing projects that are definitely on the schedule with a published. Oftentimes, I will not be able to share much information, but I can at least tease the future! Everything here is, of course, subject to change.
Thanks to a couple of corrections and a couple of new announcements, I’ve made a couple of adjustments to The NecronomiBunn visual timeline!
JULY 2023
DOOR TO DOOR, NIGHT BY NIGHT #7
DOOR TO DOOR, NIGHT BY NIGHT TPB
AUGUST 2023
DEATH OF THE VENOMVERSE 1 - 5 (weekly)
GHOSTLORE #4
DOOR TO DOOR, NIGHT BY NIGHT #8
DISPLACEMENT
MAGIC: THE GATHERING - NOTORIOUS
REANIMATOR: THE ETERNAL LIE, Part 2
SEPTEMBER 2023
BLOODBORNE: THE BLEAK DOMINION #1
OCTOBER 2023
REGRESSION: THE COMPLETE COLLECTION
BLOODBORNE: THE BLEAK DOMINION #2
THE MIDNITE SHOW #1
NOVEMBER 2023
LAMENTATION TPB
THE MIDNITE SHOW #2
BLOODBORNE: THE BLEAK DOMINION #3
DECEMBER 2023
INVASIVE #1
THE MIDNITE SHOW #3
BLOODBORNE: THE BLEAK DOMINION #4
JANUARY 2024
BEYOND MORTAL Trade Paperback
THE MIDNITE SHOW #4
INVASIVE #2
THE UNKNOWN FUTURE…
PROJECT: JUMP, a new comic book series in the Beyond Mortal Universe.
PROJECT: HEX, a supernatural/horror thriller.
PROJECT: HORROR, a licensed horror comic.
I’LL KILL YOU LAST - An 80s action/horror fiction anthology I’m editing.
PROJECT: GALLERY - An RPG project I’ve been quietly developing.
PROJECT: PREHISTORY - More kaiju craziness
PROJECT: MEGA-BATTLE - Even More kaiju craziness
PROJECT: BOT - A sequel to a story of robotic mischief
PROJECT: WATER HEATER - An apocalyptic horror/fantasy maxi-series
PROJECT: RUSH - A horror prose anthology I’m editing
COPYCAT - A new limited series from Todd Garner, Heath Amodio, and myself.
BLOODBLADE - An action/horror story of destiny and demonic blood
PROJECT: CONVOY - A horror/thriller I’m co-writing
PROJECT: ARCANA - a dark fantasy series
PROJECT: MONSTER - a new horror/action/comedy series
PROJECT: HOAX - a horror limited series
PROJECT: DEAD - a short comic story
PROJECT: VARIANT - a really cool one-shot project
PROJECT: G - a new ongoing series
1130 pages of comic book scripts (1710 in 2022)
0 feature length screenplay (0 in 2022)
0 half-hour comedy pilot (1 in 2022)
0 short film script (1 in 2022)
0 short stories (9 in 2022)
0 novellas (0 in 2022)
10 two-sentence horror stories (10 in 2022)
0 new comic book series proposals (29 in 2022)
0 podcast proposals (0 in 2022)
0 essays (0 in 2022)
1 foreword for upcoming graphic novels (0 in 2022)
0 television series proposal (0 in 2022)
AUGUST 5 - 6, 2023 - Fountain City Con, New Century KS
AUGUST 19, 2023 - Signing at Distant Planet Comics, Columbia MO
SEPTEMBER 9, 2023 - Signing at B&B Collections, Jonesboro AR
SEPTEMBER 16 - 17, 2023 - Extremicon, St. Roberts MO
SEPTEMBER 30 - OCTOBER 1 - Cowtown Comic Convention, Fort Worth TX
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Murder Surgeon is my new favorite term.