Charmed (comic book)



The Charmed Comics will make their official debut at Comic Con International in San Diego in July, but a spellbook preview issue will be released as Issue #0 in June.

The news was made official on March 15th of this year (2010), but Zenescope had already put adds in several comics and one artist had released his test drawings (see gallery). Alyssa Milano also informed Charmed-fans of thise news when she twittered that a comic was in the making.

The process definitely took a little while and was in the works for well over a year.. We were discussing all the potential storylines and details with CBS for quite some time and they also needed to make sure the lead actresses were all okay with us using their likenesses. The main thing was that we all wanted to make sure this was something we were going to do right so we didn't want to rush anything.

For Zenescope, the decision to make a Charmed comic was a no-brainer because it fits in their wheelhouse of beautiful and strong-willed female lead characters.

Storyline
The story will pick up were the series left off, the Charmed Ones batteling the forces of evil San Francisco.

The key to this series success is to strike a nice balance in creating a brand new, intriguing storyline for fans of the television show while also not alienating Zenescope and comic book readers who haven't really followed it before but might want to now that it's a comic. The great thing is that Paul and Raven have done just that with this story arc. Anybody will be able to pick up this series and follow it whether or not they ever watched the show before. Moreover, fans of the show are going to be thrilled when they see where this story goes.

The official cover is already causing Charmed fans to theorize the new, possible storylines such as a new power for Piper, Magic School taken back by Good, a Vine demon, etc...

Written and Drawn By
The comics will be written by Paul Ruditis, who has written two Charmed novels like As Puck Would Have It and Leo Rising. Co-writing with him will be Raven Gregory, to make the transition of novel-writing to comic-writing easier for Ruditis.

Paul Ruditis was the first choice for becoming the writer, deciding that he knew the Charmedverse best

The drawings will be done by Dave Hoover, most known for drawing the Captain America comic series. Milen Parvanov will be coloring.

Getting the Rights
It had taken Zenescope about a year before they had gotten the all the right, including the right to use the actresses' likenesses. Alyssa Milano, Holly Marie Combs and Rose McGowan, all agreed to their likenesses being used, but it remains unsure if either Brian Krause, Kaley Cuoco, Shannen Doherty, or any other of the important cast have agreed to this as well.

Trivia

 * Ralp Tedesco, Zenescope Editor-in-chief, never had seen any of the first few seasons of Charmed, but his girlfriend at that time was hooked. He started watching with her and got into it himself. Ralph's bunniseess partner, Joe, had a wife and daughter who both were fans of the show and had followed the series from time to time.