Police procedurals and crime shows are a dime a dozen on TV these days. Grimm broke from the pack by offering a new twist on a familiar formula. The show centers around Detective Nick Burkhardt, who discovers that he is a member of a line of defenders called Grimm who protect the world from mystical creatures known as Wesen. The show features characters inspired by Grimm's Fairy Tales and similar stories.
Evidently NBC felt the time was right to expand the Grimm franchise beyond the confines of network TV. At NYCC today, Dynamite Entertainment announced that they've acquired the rights to produce comics and graphic novels based on Grimm. Grimm joins various other licensed properties at Dynamite, including Flash Gordon, The Lone Ranger, Green Hornet, and Voltron.
"The opportunity to delve even deeper into the Grimm universe is an exciting prospect. One we hope fans of the show and comic books in general will equally enjoy." said Executive Producers David Greenwalt and Jim Kouf in Dynamite's press release. "The medium will allow the story to go places we never could within the constraints of a television production. It's pretty cool."
Meanwhile, Dynamite President Nick Barrucci said, "Grimm is one of the hottest new genre shows on TV. We had asked NBC numerous times since Season One about licensing this great TV show as a Dynamite comic. They weren't ready to license in the first year, as they were still building the mythology. The second they opened up the license for proposals we offered an aggressive creative, financial, and marketing plan. Fans of the TV show will enjoy what we have in store and how the comics will complement the TV series."
Dynamite hasn't revealed what form these new comics might take or which creators will be tapped to produce them. It should be interesting to see how the Grimm comics compare to current fairy tale-inspired series like Bill Willingham's Fables and Zenescope's Grimm Fairy Tales franchise. We'll keep you updated as Dynamite releases more information.
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Source : ign[dot]com
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