• A cool piece of news from 2 Askewers we all know and love — Bryan Johnson and Walt Flanagan. The guys have another comic on the way from IDW Publishing, titled “War of the Undead”. Cool concept, too — In 1945, Nazis attempt to control Dracula, Frankenstein, and Wolfman to win the war, and instead lose control and have the monsters attacking THEM as a team! We assume there’s a lot more to it than just that, but the concept certainly does grab ya. Comic Book Resources has the full story and a bunch of beautiful artwork from the book as well. Here’s some clips:

“I’m a sucker for the ‘monster as a hero’ concept and I wanted to take a stab at drawing essentially a super-team of monsters,” Flannigan told CBR news. However, in the beginning, Johnson took a little more convincing. “I had no aspirations of comic creation and wouldn’t have thought of it had Walter not suggested the ‘Karney ‘ adaptation,” added Johnson. “The rest is comics history. At least in my house where publishing a comic is more than the eight preceding Johnson generations accomplished.”

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Just as their entry into comic book creation was unusually simple, Johnson and Flannigan don’t collaborate in what could be called the “traditional” way of other writer/artist teams either. ” We talk about the story, spitball ideas and figure out what we want to happen in the issue,” said Johnson. “Walt then goes off and draws whatever he wants and when he’s done I go back and fill in the narrative. From what I understand this isn’t the way it’s normally done. However, I’ve also been told it’s the way ‘Stan the Man’ used to do it. So I’m pretty much exactly like him – except for the talent, money and good looks. Other than that, we’re exactly the same.”

We believe the book is due for release at the end of this month. If either of the guys are reading, send us a copy! We’d love to check it out.