Chuck Palahniuk (left) and Brad Pitt in Fight Club
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Author Chuck Palahniuk is revisiting his epochal tale of consumer disenfranchisement and punching strangers, Fight Club – the 1999 film version of which gave us peak-level Brad Pitt abs – and he's doing so in a medium that may surprise you: comic books.
Fight Club 2 will be a 10-issue Dark Horse Comics series illustrated by Cameron Stewart, debuting May 2015.
Palahniuk describes to USA Today being sort-of forced into the project, saying he mentioned it at last year's New York Comic Con.
"I messed up and said I was doing the sequel in front of 1,500 geeks with telephones. Suddenly, there was this big scramble to honor my word."
An image from Fight Club 2
David Mack / Dark Horse Comics
The plot of the sequel finds the original book's unnamed narrator 10 years older and married to his love interest, Marla Singer, with whom he has a 9-year-old son named Junior.
Characters from the first book will be returning, and Palahniuk promises an exploration of the narrator's (15-Year-Old Spoiler Alert) alter ego, Tyler Durden.
"Tyler is something that maybe has been around for centuries and is not just this aberration that's popped into [the narrator's] mind," he says.
Palahniuk adds that Fight Club was "such a tirade against fathers – everything I had thought my father had not done combined with everything my peers were griping about their fathers."
He continues: "Now to find myself at the age that my father was when I was trashing him [Palahniuk is 52] made me want to revisit it from the father's perspective and see if things were any better and why it repeats like that."
Illustrator Stewart says he's using a "cartoony" style for the series, claiming it's "more appropriate for the density of the story and for some of its more absurdly comical moments."
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