“Listen up, maggots. You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else.” - Tyler Durden
But, seriously, listen up!
“Fight Club 2” is being published as a 10-issue comic- book series by Dark Horse Comics. The first installment ($3.99) hits shelves Wednesday.
The Post reports
“Oregon-based author Chuck Palahniuk says he read horror comics growing up in the 1970s but never considered working in the medium until a friend threw a dinner party attended by Portland, Ore., comic stars Brian Bendis (“The Avengers”), Matt Fraction (“Sex Criminals”) and Kelly Sue DeConnick (“Captain Marvel”).”
When talking about the part, Palahniuk said,
“This was set up like a blind date about doing the ‘Fight Club’ sequel as a comic,”
The “blind date” went extremely well and resulted is a story that picks up 10 years after the events in “
Fight Club.” The narrator (famously played by Ed Norton in the 1999 film) is now living a quiet life in suburbia with wife Marla (who was played by Helena Bonham Carter). Bored, Marla begins swapping out her husband’s antipsychotic meds with a placebo in hopes that his anarchic alter ego, Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt in the film), will return.
Cue explosions, assassinations and rough sex.
“The story is about not having to conform to all those sedate, mundane, bland stereotypes [of being middleaged in the suburbs],” Palahniuk says. “You can live a life beyond that.”
The opening page of “Fight Club 2,” which is illustrated by Cameron Stewart, invites the hard-core to “guerrilla market the s – – t” out of the series by sending in photos using the phrases “Tyler lives” or “Rize or die” in creative ways.
Palahniuk said,
“To tell the truth, that came from what people were already doing,” the author says. “For 20 years, people from across the country have been sending me photos of ‘Tyler lives’ spray-painted on things.”