In late July Chuck Palahniuk broke the cardinal rule of ‘You DO NOT talk about the Fight Club’ when he mentioned that its highly-anticipated sequel, Fight Club 2 will be ready to hit stores in April 2015.
Just recently, Dark Horse Comics along with Chuck and the illustrator Cameron Stewart released a six page excerpt lettered interior pages from Fight Club 2 #1. The makers of the series have set 27 May, 2015 as the new release date now, timing it alongside Free Comic Book Day.
The readers will get to see a 10 year older version of the narrator, who is addicted to pills and living a “normal” life, while his wife Marla Singer – Helena Bonham – Carter’s character from the film, is bored and sexually frustrated, and back into the group therapy scene. Also, they have a weird son who cooks up gunpowder in his bedroom, and a babysitter who steals the narrator’s weed and wields a large, sharp knife. It’s all setting the stage for the re-emergence of Tyler Durden, the typhoon of destruction.
Last year at San Diego, Dark Horse announced that Fight Club would be joining Dredd and Serenity in that rare pantheon of non-comics stories with official sequels in comics form.
In the six-page preview, that has been revealed shows Palahniuk and Stewart actually being the same person. (Woops! spoiler alert…)
For those of you who aren’t familiar with the plot of Fight Club (which is really hard to believe) – it’s the story of a guy living a mundane life, but eventually finds a release from the stress of his everyday life through recreational sports, a relationship with a quirky young lady, and a new ‘best friend’. With their help, and the help of a like-minded group of sportsmen, he’s able to eventually realise that the real friendship was inside him all along. For more information, please consult any dorm room wall at any college anytime in the past fifteen years.
