Yep... If it hasn't been said before on here... Haunted Mansion comics are coming according to this source- LINK
Also mentioned was TRON becoming acomic book.
Haunted Mansion (bi-monthly, black and white, $2.95, issue #1 coming in October)
“This will be based on the theme park ride, not on the movie. The ride itself is one of the few ‘E-ticket’ attractions that do not have an official story. When Walt Disney was conceptualizing it, his view was essentially, ‘This is a haunted house. The rider is a person trapped in a haunted house. That’s the only story you need.’ There are elements of a story in it, and hinted at over the years, but only the one at EuroDisney [Phantom Manor] has a story.
“What I’ve done is researched the ride – a lot of which was riding the ride many hundreds of times over the course of my life – and there is a story there. In essence though, Haunted Mansion is going to be an anthology in the spirit of the ride. There are 999 ghosts in the mansion, so that produces the potential for at least 999 stories – where did these ghosts come from? How did they die? What are they doing in the Mansion?
“We’ll also tell the backstory of the Mansion itself in a thread which will run through the main stories. I consider the most central characters of the larger story to be the ‘Ghost Host’ – the guy hanging in the rafters, Madame Leota – the medium who appears in the crystal ball in the attic, and the Bride, who’s in the attic. They’re central to the story.
“That said, the backstory will be there to drive along elements of some of the other stories, but I’m not going to make paying attention to the backstory the focus of the series. After all, people ride the Haunted Mansion, not for the backstory, but for the individual elements, which we’ll touch upon in the stories of the anthology.”
Also mentioned was TRON becoming acomic book.
Haunted Mansion (bi-monthly, black and white, $2.95, issue #1 coming in October)
“This will be based on the theme park ride, not on the movie. The ride itself is one of the few ‘E-ticket’ attractions that do not have an official story. When Walt Disney was conceptualizing it, his view was essentially, ‘This is a haunted house. The rider is a person trapped in a haunted house. That’s the only story you need.’ There are elements of a story in it, and hinted at over the years, but only the one at EuroDisney [Phantom Manor] has a story.
“What I’ve done is researched the ride – a lot of which was riding the ride many hundreds of times over the course of my life – and there is a story there. In essence though, Haunted Mansion is going to be an anthology in the spirit of the ride. There are 999 ghosts in the mansion, so that produces the potential for at least 999 stories – where did these ghosts come from? How did they die? What are they doing in the Mansion?
“We’ll also tell the backstory of the Mansion itself in a thread which will run through the main stories. I consider the most central characters of the larger story to be the ‘Ghost Host’ – the guy hanging in the rafters, Madame Leota – the medium who appears in the crystal ball in the attic, and the Bride, who’s in the attic. They’re central to the story.
“That said, the backstory will be there to drive along elements of some of the other stories, but I’m not going to make paying attention to the backstory the focus of the series. After all, people ride the Haunted Mansion, not for the backstory, but for the individual elements, which we’ll touch upon in the stories of the anthology.”
