We had been already excited sufficient that Dream Theater received 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. Referred to as Parasomnia: The Graphic Album, the graphic novel will depict the album’s dream themes advised via eight interlinked tales.
The workforce behind Parasomnia: The Graphic Album features a grip of unbelievable 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 offers the visible framework, creating symbolic iconography for each observe 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 workforce on this epic collaboration. Having the chance to discover various interpretations of the songs on Parasomnia via the eyes of so many proficient artists has been actually inspirational. The distinctive storytelling abilities of all of the writers in addition to the unbelievable paintings that displays so many alternative types of graphic artistry was simply wonderful to witness. I feel followers of this media, our DT group and simply anybody who appreciates beautiful shows of human creativity will actually get pleasure from this darkish and generally twisted journey via the realm of Parasomnia!”
Nebula award-winning writer Vajra Chandrasekera then added:
“I used to be intrigued and delighted by the chance to jot down for this guide! It’s a really completely different medium for me, since almost all my expertise is in prose fiction, and I had a good time working with Rocky OBK, whose unbelievable artwork made my script into one thing unusual and so stunning. I hope everybody enjoys studying it as a lot as we loved making it.”
The complete artistic workforce 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’ll be able to pre-order completely different editions of Parasomnia: The Graphic Album by going right here.