We had been already excited sufficient that Dream Theater acquired again along with Mike Portnoy and had been releasing an album known as Parasomnia. Even higher now, Dream Theater are bringing much more visuals to it by teaming up with Z2 Comics. Known as Parasomnia: The Graphic Album, the graphic novel will depict the album’s dream themes instructed by way of eight interlinked tales.
The crew behind Parasomnia: The Graphic Album features a grip of unimaginable expertise, some having accolades from Nebula, Locus, Inkpot, and Eisner. The novel will likely be damaged up into eight chapters, primarily based on the album’s eight songs, with Eisner-winning artist Tony Harris offering the artwork.
Award-winning writers and artists—spanning Nebula, Locus, Inkpot, and Eisner pedigrees—have every crafted a story impressed by one of many album’s songs, blurring the boundary between the dreamworld and waking actuality. Eisner-winning artist Tony Harris gives the visible framework, creating symbolic iconography for each monitor that seems each on the quilt and firstly of every chapter.
Dream Theater guitarist and vocalist John Petrucci shared:
“It’s been so superior attending to work with the Z2 crew on this epic collaboration. Having the chance to discover different interpretations of the songs on Parasomnia by way of the eyes of so many gifted artists has been really inspirational. The distinctive storytelling skills of all of the writers in addition to the unimaginable art work that displays so many alternative kinds of graphic artistry was simply superb to witness. I feel followers of this media, our DT group and simply anybody who appreciates gorgeous shows of human creativity will actually take pleasure in this darkish and typically twisted journey by way of the realm of Parasomnia!”
Nebula award-winning writer Vajra Chandrasekera then added:
“I used to be intrigued and delighted by the chance to write down for this e-book! It’s a really completely different medium for me, since practically all my expertise is in prose fiction, and I had a good time working with Rocky OBK, whose unimaginable artwork made my script into one thing unusual and so lovely. I hope everybody enjoys studying it as a lot as we loved making it.”
The total artistic crew for Parasomnia: The Graphic Album is listed as follows: Cat Rambo, Lydia Rasero, Kevin J. Anderson, Christian Rosado, Benjamin Raab, Deric Hughes, Gianenrico Bonacorsi, Dan Hernandez, Damien Worm, Gavin Highnight, Sofia Girol, Vajra Chandrasekera, Rocky Obk, Steve Niles, Stan Yak, John Reppion, Ryan Kelly, Simone D’Angelo and Lucas Carvalho.
You possibly can pre-order completely different editions of Parasomnia: The Graphic Album by going right here.
