Submitted for your approval, the Savannah College of Art and Design (aka SKAD) along with Walker & Company are working on 8 graphic novels from the Twilight Zone!!! (just had to go exclamation crazy on this one)

They will be adapting these stories from the original Rod Serling scripts and releasing the first two in Fall 2008: "Walking Distance" and "The After Hours." My favorite Twilight Zone episode, "To Serve Man" will not be in the lineup, but can be seen on CBS. This one wasn’t penned by Serling but the timing of the ending is classic Twilight Zone twist.

Thanks to natashawescoat for the post alerting me to this. The only thing her post was missing was a link. Went to SCAD, typed "Twilight Zone" into the query and the story was the topmost link.

Rod Serling’s widow, Carol, had this to say about the graphic novels:

"I suspect that my husband, Rod Serling, the ‘father’ of ‘The Twilight Zone,’ would wholeheartedly approve of this ‘new dimension’ of his stories. The adaptations and fine graphic pictures have truly caught the feeling and climate of that wondrous world of imagination,"

Where these books can be bought — not in … The Twilight Zone 

Walker Books for Young Readers (walkeryoungreaders.com) is making them and they will be for sale through Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Borders and Waldenbooks as well as a bunch of independent booksellers.

Here are links for the Amazon listings I found along with the price as of this writing (very subject to change) and the release date, where applicable:

Twilight Zone: The After Hours ($13.25, available now)
Twilight Zone: The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street ($9.99, to be released December 23, 2008)
Twilight Zone: The Odyssey Of Flight 33 ($11.55, to be released December 23, 2008)

One of these days being it is my favorite show ever on TV I should do some sort of episodic tribute here at Hmm to The Twilight Zone. Perhaps go season by season, favorite episode by episode through the list. If you have never seen an episode of the original Twilight Zone series than put at least one of the definitive season DVDs for the first three seasons (when it was best) on your holiday shopping list. Season four and five were still good, but the first three seasons were incredible.

These graphic novels are not the only adaptions created. There are some audio dramas out there that were playing on Sirius at one time and also available via Amazon on CD. I caught parts of a few of these radio dramas when I had Sirius (don’t any more) and they seemed pretty well done. I need to buy one of these radio drama packages and give them a thorough Hmm review.

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