IDW Publishing + Fox TV = 24

Posted: Friday, March 19, 2004
Posted By: Jose Barbosa

IDW Publishing has announced that it will release a comic book one-shot based on the popular Fox TV programme 24.

For scientists living in the artic: 24 features Counter Terrorism Unit agent Jack Bauer (played by Kiefer Sutherland) keeping the world safe from Dennis Hopper's Russian accent and other nasties. What's interesting about the show is that each episode equals one hour in the life of Agent Bauer, with each season presenting a complete day.

The comic book version of the show will be titled 24: One Shot. The story will be provided by J.C. Vaughn and Mark L. Haynes (Battlestar Galactica) with by CSI: Miami artist, Renato Guedes. In it, Jack Bauer has to protect a beautiful and deadly terrorist for twenty-four hours, but after an attack by her former friends, he has only one bullet left in his gun.

In translating the time element over to the comic book page two pages of printed story will equal one hour of elapsed time. “We at IDW are big fans of the series 24,” Editor-in-Chief Jeff Mariotte said. “We had some difficulty at first trying to figure out how the ticking clock element, so crucial to the show, would work on the printed page. But J.C. Vaughn and Mark Haynes had some ideas, and they convinced us that it could work. We teamed them up with Renato Guedes, who does some of the best actor likenesses ever, and we think the book will be every bit as entertaining as the TV series.”

24: One Shot will be a 48-page, full color, squarebound graphic novella, on sale in July, with a retail price of $6.99. Promotion will include an excerpt in a Free Comic Book Day release, and major national publicity.

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