Marvel & ABC Studios Announce New ‘Once Upon A Time: Out of the Past’ Graphic Novel
After a few days of teaser images on Facebook this past week, ABC Studios have announced a Once Upon A Time graphic novel to be published under the Marvel label. Enter Once Upon A Time: Out of the Past.
From the press release:
Marvel Entertainment and ABC Studios are proud to announce the follow up graphic novel to the massively successful Once Upon A Time: Shadow of the Queen. ONCE UPON A TIME: OUT OF THE PAST is an all new graphic novel inspired by ABC’s popular television series “Once Upon a Time.” This 112-page hardcover hits comic shops and bookstores everywhere on April 1st, 2015.
Welcome to Storybrooke, a small New England town where seemingly regular people go about their everyday lives with no idea who they really are – the fabled storybook characters we all grew up with! But Fairy Tale Land is not the “happily ever after” you may have read about – their stories continue, and the Evil Queen has set a dark curse upon their homeland.
Travel back in ONCE UPON A TIME: OUT OF THE PAST to the origin stories of your favorite characters from the show!
ONCE UPON A TIME: OUT OF THE PAST brings together the best graphic novel creators in the industry, including “Once” series writer Kalinda Vazquez, returning writer Corinna Bechko (ONCE UPON A TIME: SHADOW OF THE QUEEN, PLANET OF THE APES), and featuring the lush art of Eisner award winning Janet Lee (DAPPER MEN, EMMA), Pascal Campion (PENGUINS OF MADAGASCAR, SHERMAN AND PEABODY), Vanesa Del Rey (HIT,SINATORO), and Betsy Peterschmidt (BOYS WITH WINGS) with cover artist Stacey Lee (SILK).
Okay, real talk. I love Once Upon A Time despite being all levels of terrible. When this season of Game of Thrones ended I was jonesing for more fantasy TV and didn’t feel like watching The Lord of the Rings again, so I hopped on Netflix and checked out Once based on word of mouth. I finished the first two seasons within a week.
But I admit I’m slightly confused by the concept. It’s a book of origin stories? Viewers of the show know how much the writers make use of flashbacks and origin stories, almost ad nauseam. What else is there to tell? I guess I have to find out by buying the book, don’t I?
The real synergy I’m hoping for between Disney and Marvel is an Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D/Once Upon A Time crossover. It would make absolutely no sense, but I want it. I can’t be the only one who wants to see Coulson drive Lola around Storybrooke.
He could pick up Emma and they can make jokes about her jacket matching Lola’s coat.
Then Coulson could meet Rumple and be all like “I’ve dealt with tricksters like you,” BECAUSE REMEMBER HIM AND LOKI?
Now I can’t think about anything else.
