Dark Horse Digital & TNT Partner for Season Two FALLING SKIES COMIC!
DARK HORSE DIGITAL and TNT Partner for Season Two FALLING
SKIES COMIC
APRIL 11, MILWAUKIE,
OR–TNT and Dark Horse Comics have partnered again for the Falling Skies season
two digital comic. The comic will be available beginning April 18 on FallingSkies.com and Dark Horse Digital. TNT’s
epic drama Falling Skies, basic cable’s number-one new series of
last year, chronicles the chaotic aftermath of an alien attack that has left
most of the world completely incapacitated. Season two will premiere with
back-to-back episodes on Sunday, June 17, at 9 p.m. (ET/PT).
Dark Horse Comics
began working with TNT over a year ago, publishing a free webcomic prequel to Falling
Skies. The inaugural comic quickly sold out and was a fan favorite in
advance of the series premiere. The upcoming digital comic series, Falling
Skies: The Battle of Fitchburg, chronicles what happens to the Second Mass
in the three months between when season one ends and season two picks up. With
an army of skitters closing in, and the group sustaining heavy losses, the
Second Mass shields itself in an armory in Fitchburg ready to finish the battle
once and for all. Falling Skies: The Battle of Fitchburg will
be released as free eight-page, biweekly comics featuring art by Juan Ferreyra
(Rex Mundi) and scripts by Paul Tobin (Marvel Adventures: Fantastic
Four, Marvel Adventures: Spider-Man). Fans can get a sneak peek
of the animated trailer by visiting EW’s Shelf Life!
This season will
continue its extraordinary story about life and survival in the wake of a
catastrophic alien invasion. Noah Wyle (ER) stars as Tom
Mason, a former college professor and father of three, who has become an
unlikely leader for the Second Massachusetts civilian resistance group. Falling
Skies comes to TNT fromDreamWorks Television and is executive
produced by Steven Spielberg and DreamWorks Television heads Justin
Falvey and Darryl Frank. Remi Aubuchon, Greg Beeman, and Robert
Rodat are also executive producers. Fans can find the latest Falling
Skies news online at FallingSkies.com and via @FallingSkiesTNT on
Twitter.
In its debut
season, TNT’s Falling Skies averaged more than 6.9 million
viewers, 3.3 million adults 18–49 and 3.7 million adults 25–54 to rank as basic
cable’s number-one new series of 2011. On the international front, Falling
Skies premiered in more than 115 global markets, achieving hit status
in the United Kingdom, Australia, and Latin America, among others. The premiere
of Falling Skies also ranks as the biggest series launch ever
for TNT networks in Spain, Germany, and Austria.
About TNT
TNT, one of cable’s
top-rated networks, is television’s destination for drama. Seen in 99 million
households, the network is home to such original series as The Closer,
starring Emmy winner Kyra Sedgwick; Rizzoli
& Isles, starring Angie Harmon and Sasha Alexander; Falling
Skies, starring Noah Wyle; Franklin & Bash, with Mark-Paul
Gosselaar and Breckin Meyer; Leverage, starring Timothy Hutton; and Southland,
from Emmy-winning producer John Wells, as well as the upcoming series Major
Crimes, Dallas, Perception and The
Great Escape. TNT also is the cable home to powerful dramas like The
Mentalist, Bones, Supernatural, Las Vegas, Law
& Order, CSI: NY, Cold Case and, starting
this year, Castle; primetime specials, such as the Screen
Actors Guild Awards; blockbuster movies; and championship sports
coverage, including NASCAR, the NBA and the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball
Championship. TNT is available in high-definition.
Turner Broadcasting
System, Inc., a Time Warner company, creates and programs branded news;
entertainment; animation and young adult; and sports media environments on
television and other platforms for consumers around the world.
About Dark Horse Comics
Since 1986, Dark
Horse Comics has proven to be a solid example of how integrity and innovation
can help broaden a unique storytelling medium and establish a small, homegrown
company as an industry giant. The company is known for the progressive and
creator-friendly atmosphere it provides for writers and artists. In
addition to publishing comics from top talent like Frank Miller, Mike Mignola,
Neil Gaiman, Gerard Way, Will Eisner, and best-selling prose author Janet
Evanovich, Dark Horse has developed such successful characters as the Mask,
Timecop, and the Occultist. Additionally, its highly successful
line of comics and products based on popular properties includes Star
Wars, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Buffy the Vampire
Slayer, Aliens, Conan the Barbarian, Mass
Effect, Serenity, and Domo. Today, Dark
Horse Comics is the largest independent comic-book publisher in the United
States and is recognized as both an innovator in the cause of creator
rights and the comics industry’s leading publisher of licensed material.
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