Bride of Rocky Horror Continues the Iconic Stage Musical

Richard O'Brien's The Rocky Horror Show and its 1975 movie adaptation easy fertile among the astir fashionable and enduring musicals ever released. But if you've ever wondered what became of all-American mates Brad Majors and Janet Weiss aft their fateful nighttime successful the mansion, you're astir to get an answer. That's wherever the authoritative graphic caller sequel Bride of Rocky Horror comes in.

With the Kickstarter run for The Rocky Horror Show: Bride of Rocky Horror unrecorded now, IGN tin exclusively debut a caller preview of the book. Check it retired successful the slideshow assemblage below, on with a look astatine immoderate of the exclusive merch tied to the campaign:

Bride of Rocky Horror is simply a 95-page publication acceptable 7 years aft the events of the musical. The publication is published by Bit Bot Media, and the originative squad includes writer Magdalene Visaggio (Girlmode), creator Noemi Vettori (X-Men Unlimited), colorist Josh Rodriguez (The Brooding Muse), letterer Jeremiah Lambert (Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver – The Dead Shall Rise), and screen creator Soo Lee (Carmilla). Here's the authoritative logline for the book:

In Bride of Rocky Horror, Janet Weiss has embraced a beingness of decadence and debauchery. But erstwhile a mysterious invitation draws her backmost into the orbit of her ex-fiancé Brad Majors, a caller enigma unfolds. Who is the enigmatic Bridget Von Frankenstein? What secrets is Brad hiding? And is it, erstwhile again, clip for the Time Warp?

"Rocky Horror is 1 of my favourite stories of each time,” said Visaggio successful a statement. “It was the safest queer creation I had entree to erstwhile I was young due to the fact that my parents were some immense fans. So to get the accidental to look beyond it and spot however it could person played retired erstwhile that fateful nighttime ended was a imagination travel true. I tried to marque thing arsenic idiosyncratic and idiosyncratic arsenic O'Brien's original, riffing disconnected the themes that stood retired to maine the aforesaid mode O'Brien was riffing connected his puerility influences. I deliberation maine and Noemi person made thing truly unique."

“As an artist, and adjacent much truthful arsenic a Rocky Horror Show fan, it meant a batch to maine to wage tribute to our beloved characters, striving to enactment arsenic existent arsenic imaginable to their archetypal quality and personalities,” said Vettori. “I anticipation I succeeded successful representing what Rocky Horror embodies: chaos, passion, and rebellion. Working connected Bride of Rocky Horror wasn’t conscionable astir illustration, it was astir channeling each the vigor of an eccentric and mesmerizing philharmonic onto paper!”

The Kickstarter run for The Rocky Horror Show: Bride of Rocky is unrecorded now.

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