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Pushing Daisies comic will tie up loose ends, unearth 1,000 corpses

Pushing Daisies

As the clock ticks down to the final three episodes of Pushing Daisies, creator Bryan Fuller offers a few more details on the show's continuation this fall in comic-book form.

The Emmy-nominated comedy-drama, about a pie-maker who can (with a few critical limitations) resurrect the dead, was canceled by ABC in November after barely two seasons.

Fuller, who also created Dead Like Me and co-created Wonderfalls, revealed last month he'd struck a deal with DC Comics for a 12-issue miniseries -- through Wildstorm, presumably -- that will tie up loose ends left by Pushing Daisies' untimely demise.

"We've arced it out," Fuller tells Sci Fi Wire in a new interview that contains spoilers for the final episodes. "The dangling threads from the series with Chuck's father and Ned's father and the pocket watches are all dealt with, not secondarily, but there's a whole new story that happens when there is a flash flood in the cemetery and all the bodies wash past Ned's and it's Ned versus a thousand corpses. That's the story of the comic book."

He says if the miniseries is successful, we could see more Pushing Daisies comics.

The first of the final three episodes airs tonight at 10 Eastern on ABC.

Pushing Daisies is now heading to DC Comics, apparently

Pushing Daisies

Remember what Bryan Fuller said last week about resurrecting Pushing Daisies at Marvel? Well, forget it.

He now says the canceled ABC TV series will see new life at DC Comics as a 12-issue miniseries.

"We got a 12-issue order for a comic book for DC Comics," Fuller tells E! Online.  "I think the comic book is great, because it has all the characters in it, and it starts a new story. It's basically Chuck, Ned, Emerson and Olive versus 1,000 corpses, so it becomes a zombie movie, but the zombies are articulate and smart and can do things that no other zombies can do. The Pie-Maker versus 1,000 corpses."

The comic is set to debut this fall. However, attendees at Comic-Con International may receive another giveaway a few months early. (A preview comic was distributed at Comic-Con in 2007, before the show debuted.)

The Emmy-nominated comedy-drama, about a pie-maker who can resurrect the dead (with some limitations), was canceled in November after barely two seasons. The final three episodes will air beginning May 30.