Dr. Horrible and Captain Hammer Face Off on Cover of New Comic Series DR. HORRIBLE: BEST FRIENDS FOREVER
We may not be getting a sequel to Joss Whedon's Doctor Horrible Sing-a-long Blog anytime soon, but we are going to be getting more comic books! There's a new one-shot adventure coming out later this year called Dr. Horrible: Best Friends Forever and above you'll find a piece of variant cover art from Francesco Francavilla.
The comic was written by Whedon and the art comes from Jose Maria Beroy and Sara Soler. Here's the story description:
From the Joss Whedon-helmed webmovie Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog comes the origin story of the next greatest supervillain of all time . . . DR. HORRIBLE!
In Dr. Horrible: Best Friends Forever, the time temptress herself, HOURGLASS, is in dire trouble and turns to that team of famous best friends, Dr. Horrible and Captain Hammer, who are best friends, yes they've always been best friends why are you giving me that look?
In this one-shot comic, Zack Whedon and artist Joelle Jones (Token) establish how a young, impressionable, but brilliant Dr. Horrible was drawn into a world of crime. Readers are reacquainted with the charming, brawny, crime-fighting superhero extraordinaire Captain Hammer when Dr. Horrible crosses paths with his greatest enemy in an all-out showdown of immeasurable proportions. Special guest appearances include Dr. Horrible's love interest, Penny; his sidekick, Moist; and a meter man. Fans of Joss Whedon and the smash-hit musical Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog will not want to miss this!
I'm intrigued! Best friends!? This should be interesting. Whedon had this to say in a statement about jumping back into the Doctor Horrible universe:
"What a pleasure it is to be back in this world, putting words into these characters' mouths and saying, 'say these words, mouths' and then they do. Each member of the Hammerverse—sorry, Doc, that's what it's called, he registered it—is a delightful, bigger than life character, but more importantly, on a very human level, they’re idiots. You will thrill to their adventures and weep for their pain, or maybe not weep, maybe just, I don’t know, itchy nose. Based on Actual Events."
The Dr. Horrible: Best Friends Forever one-shot hits comic stores on November 14th. As fun as it is to see more stories for these characters, you can't hear any of them sing in comic books!