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Bryan Fuller offers first look at Pushing Daisies comic
Almost immediately after ABC announced the cancellation of Pushing Daisies in November 2008, creator Bryan Fuller began talking about resurrecting the quirky comedy as a comic book. Over the next two and a half years since, he’s occasionally offered updates about the fate of the pie-maker who can bring things back to life, saying just last fall that the first issue “will hopefully be out in early 2011.”
Well, it’s early 2011, and there’s no first issue. But Fuller has offered, or rather tweeted, the next-best thing: a preview of the first page. He doesn’t indicate who the artist is, though.
There’s also no word yet as to when we’ll see the first issue, as Pushing Daisies had been destined for DC Comics’ recently closed WildStorm imprint.
Fuller has described the comic as a 12-issue series that ties up loose ends left by the show’s untimely demise as the characters deal with a flash flood that empties bodies from a nearby cemetery.
Check out the full page after the break.
(via The Atlantic)


25 Comments
Marc C
April 26, 2011 at 6:21 am
Damn, I forgot about this. Discovered Pushing Daisies after it was canceled and really enjoyed the premise. Show wasn’t always strong, but the concept made up for its shortcomings. Can’t wait to see how the series was intended to wrap. Get it out DC–get it out.
coconutphone
April 26, 2011 at 8:29 am
Awww I can’t wait! This show made me smile each week. So genuine and sweet and hilarious all at once.
Eric
April 26, 2011 at 9:02 am
I really love that art, and I’m glad that it’s not slavishly devoted to making the characters look like the actors, but rather capture their spirit. Excited!
Jason
April 26, 2011 at 9:25 am
Is the artist Tom Mandrake? Can’t wait for this … I loved the series.
Russ Burlingame
April 26, 2011 at 9:47 am
Very excited to finally see something that indicates the book will eventually see the light of day. I’m hoping that the one-shot SDCC did a couple of years ago will be included in whatever collected edition is forthcoming. I, too, am glad that they let the artist interpret the characters a bit instead of worrying too much about looking like the actors–it doesn’t serve TRUE BLOOD all that well, after all, and likeness rights may be an issue in reprint editions if things like that aren’t hashed out from the start.
Nick S
April 26, 2011 at 11:06 am
I am so excited for this. I loved the first season, I’m still somewhere in the second, but I hated that the show got axed. Now I will catch up in anticipation of this series!
Matt Rower
April 26, 2011 at 11:17 am
Fuller tweeted this after tweeting a lettered, uncolored version of the first page: “@LenNWallace: @BryanFuller Who drew that? It’s awesome!” The very talented Jon Wa$hak!
I can’t track down what it’s in reply to, but that may narrow down the suspect list. (Of course, I thought it was Shawn McManus at first glance.)
Bill Reed
April 26, 2011 at 12:22 pm
I had given up on this ever coming out. Hooray!
dnwilliams
April 26, 2011 at 2:36 pm
So disappointed they couldn’t get Tim Sale as originall planned, he would have NAILED the tone. Intrigued to see how it turns out though.
catsmeow12
April 26, 2011 at 2:39 pm
I love the art. The characters look like the actors but without “trying too hard”, if that makes any sense.
PD was a great tv series and I’ve been looking forward to the comic book ever since it was announced. Rather than a 12-isue limited series, I’d love to see a two-volume original graphic novel (an OGN is roughly the same page count as a collected 6-issue mini series).
catsmeow12
April 26, 2011 at 2:42 pm
@ Matt Rower, I think Bryan Fuller misspelled the artist’s name. I think it’s Jon Wayshak, also credited as Jonathan Wayshak.
DinnerForOne
April 26, 2011 at 8:03 pm
Really feels more like a Vertigo series, given its premise. Hopefully that will happen someday soon.
Fond memories of this show. The blu-rays were worth acquiring.
James
April 26, 2011 at 9:05 pm
Great to see some page art! I thought this was dead in the water – glad to see its not!
Hope they re-release the one shot again. I’ll be buying this as each issue comes out. So hopefully it isn’t just in a trade.
Nik
April 27, 2011 at 2:23 am
Man, this was such a great show. I’d pick up the comics in a heartbeat.
Jay
April 27, 2011 at 7:33 am
That is nice now if only we could get a Reaper comic that would be SWEET!!
Linda
May 3, 2011 at 6:38 pm
Dammit, so there isn’t gonna be a movie? God I miss this show… SOOOOO much!! Oh well *sighs* I hate you, ABC. Anyways, back on topic… WHEN?!?!?!? My parents already promised to buy me the comics/DVD whenever it comes out.
Becky
May 12, 2011 at 6:49 am
It is about freakin time! Come on lets get Ned, Chuck, Emerson, Olive and the gang back already!
German Alcala
May 20, 2011 at 10:58 pm
Cmon, DC, make with the “Alive Again” people; I loved this show!
- Author, German Alcala
murley
July 8, 2011 at 9:12 pm
this makes me so excited. i have been waiting for this comic for a long time. i hope dc puts it out soon.
Donald
August 16, 2011 at 5:36 pm
Read the comment at the bottom
http://www.scrapbookmanifesto.com/index.php/archives/2033
Michelle
September 1, 2011 at 10:23 pm
Please please can you find a way for either a movie or a few more episodes so we can find out what happened? I am still a huge fan and thanks to Hurricane Irene, ( knocking out my cable) I am revisiting my Pushing Daisies world. I too enjoyed the weekly escape to a gentler world. Please Mr Fuller give us more Daisies,with our original cast!
Chandler
September 25, 2011 at 10:00 pm
Unfortunately amber, i seriously doubt we’ll ever get the show back. Or even a movie. And if wedid get a movie, it wouldn’t be our original actors. I mean, no one will even publish the dang comic! Ugh. Sadly, the world of television truly messed up and is seriously missing out. We’ve lost Pushing Daisies. And no one seems to want to touch it back to life. Even for a minute.
Sigh.
Linda
January 25, 2012 at 8:29 pm
I WANT IT NOW!! My parents promised to buy me all the comics when the come out!
I will even throw a Veruca Salt tantrum I had been saving for my supposed-to-have-gotten-it-but-never-ended-up-getting-it role in the Willy Wonka play!!
God why don’t they just MAKE. IT. ALREADY?! Or do something about the movie, even the actors want their parts back, and I quote,
“@BryanFuller I love you! I love OLive Snook. And I miss her everyday. I’m gonna have some banana cream pie” ~Kristin Chenoweth on twitter, TWO DAYS AGO.
Linda
January 25, 2012 at 8:31 pm
I WANT IT NOW!! My parents promised to buy me all the comics when the come out!
I will even throw a Veruca Salt tantrum I had been saving for my supposed-to-have-gotten-it-but-never-ended-up-getting-it role in the Willy Wonka play!!
God why don’t they just MAKE. IT. ALREADY?! Or do something about the movie, even the actors want their parts back, and I quote,
“@BryanFuller I love you! I love OLive Snook. And I miss her everyday. I’m gonna have some banana cream pie” ~Kristin Chenoweth on twitter, TWO DAYS AGO.
Okay, new plan. I’m gonna get me on down to Comic Con with my friends as planned, but while I’m there I will don my Olive Snook dress (IN the same style as Cheno’s, short, low cut, all that jazz) and I was FIND A PERSON FROM DC COMICS AND DEMAND TO HAVE IT MADE!! Maybe I’ll even get a petition ready with all my friends who love it.
Shadia
January 3, 2013 at 5:24 pm
I love the illustration, but I was hoping the color would be much more vibrant as the show is noted for its specific visual style and quirky colors. On the other hand this is a dismal scene with the rain and all, so maybe it’s just for these few pages that the colors will be dull.
I really hope that this comic series sees the light of day. I keep waiting for my fix of Pushing Daisies and I think it’s been like 4 years since the show was canceled. I need to know how this ends.