{"id":395,"date":"2017-12-19T13:41:03","date_gmt":"2017-12-19T19:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/popculturenetwork.com\/wordpress\/?p=395"},"modified":"2017-12-19T13:41:57","modified_gmt":"2017-12-19T19:41:57","slug":"elvis-returns-in-bubba-ho-tep-and-the-cosmic-blood-suckers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/popculturenetwork.com\/wordpress\/2017\/12\/19\/elvis-returns-in-bubba-ho-tep-and-the-cosmic-blood-suckers\/","title":{"rendered":"Elvis Returns in Bubba Ho-Tep and the Cosmic Blood-Suckers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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Joe R. Lansdale Brings the Prequel to the Original Bubba Ho-Tep Story to Comics<\/em><\/span><\/div>\n

San Diego, CA (December 19, 2017<\/span><\/span>) \u2013 Hail to the King, baby! Prior to the events of the original\u00a0Bubba Ho-Tep<\/em>\u00a0cult story, Elvis was enlisted by President Nixon to defeat an alien threat unlike anything he\u2019s faced before. IDW and award-winning writer\u00a0Joe R. Lansdale<\/strong>\u00a0present\u00a0Bubba Ho-Tep and the Cosmic Blood-Suckers<\/strong>!
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\u201cBubba Ho-Tep<\/em>\u00a0was an accidental story that turned out to be my first film adaptation, and it’s still going strong in story and film,\u201d said Lansdale. \u201cAnd finally, it has inspired a background story that was first a novel, and is now represented in the medium that first made me want to be a writer: comics. Graphic novels. What we used to call Funny Books. I’m excited and looking forward to readers discovering it all in color and looking fine. May more Bubba comics burst into existence and give the world the true story of how the world has been protected from evil, and for quite some time. Thank goodness these defenders are out there, working in the shadows.\u201d<\/p>\n

In adapting this acclaimed work for comics, Lansdale will be joined by writer\u00a0Joshua Jabcuga<\/strong>\u00a0and artist\u00a0Tadd Galusha<\/strong>\u00a0(Godzilla: Rage Across Time<\/em>), to help bring the story to terrifying life.\u00a0Part of a secret government organization designed to protect civilians, Elvis Presley and a group of hardcore warriors set out to save the world from an invasion of hive-minded, shape-shifting, vampire-like creatures from a dark dimension.<\/p>\n

Issue one arrives this March with covers by Galusha,\u00a0Baldemar Rivas<\/strong>, and\u00a0Timothy Truman<\/strong>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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