J.J. Abrams’ “Fringe” Will Have A Comic Book Prequel

By Jason

June 13, 2008 in Television

USA Today is reporting that DC Comics plans to introduce a comic book prequel to their fall TV series, “Fringe,” which is produced by J.J. Abrams (Lost, Alias, upcoming Star Trek XI) and is set to premiere on Fox on September 9.

“Fringe” stars Joshua Jackson, John Noble, and newcomer Anna Torv as an unlikely trio who uncover a deadly mystery involving a series of unbelievable events and realize they may be a part of a larger, more disturbing pattern that blurs the line between science fiction and technology.

According to the newspaper, they are currently looking at writers and artists for the prequel, which will hit the stands on August 27.

Call me crazy, but I think they’re going to have to do some heavy advertising to get people to buy a prequel to something they haven’t even seen yet. I guess you never know.

You can check out an extended preview of “Fringe” right here and see some cast pictures here.

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Mike Olbinski 4 months ago 1 point
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They wont have to do much advertising to get ME to buy it, that's for sure :)

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Cap'n Schwartz 4 months ago 1 point
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I do enjoy the prequel books that set the stage prior to the show coming out and I would buy this as well...

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The Trousered Ape 4 months ago 1 point
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I don't know - that just seems so forced to me. Shouldn't the creative process be a bit more fluid and spontaneous? Why does it have to be a comic book? Why not a novella (if they must). I know J.J. Abrams is a master at extending shows beyond their medium (look at LOST), but I think this is pushing it too much. I just hope it is really good otherwise it might lose potential viewers who would have given the show a viewing.

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Jason A Clark 4 months ago 1 point
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I don't know why they went with a comic book. I guess because it has pictures. Although they could have done an illustrated book or something.

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The Trousered Ape 4 months ago 1 point
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A pop-up book even...

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jina 4 months ago 1 point
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the word novella makes me think of nutella... just food for thought

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The Trousered Ape 4 months ago 1 point
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funny

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Mike Olbinski 4 months ago 1 point
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What is wrong with a comic book? They are fairly mainstream these days, graphic novels are being created into movies, etc.

I don't get how it's not as "fluid and spontaneous" just because it's a comic? Those take just as much creativity as a book does.

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The Trousered Ape 4 months ago 1 point
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First, there is nothing wrong with the comic book/graphic novel medium for story telling - I got nothing against that.

The problem that I have is that the time span seems to be a bit short to "create" something like this. Back when I was writing music as a way to live, some songs would just jump right out and be written in a matter of hours while others would take days, weeks and months to complete. One can never tell when it comes to creative, artistic endeavours, one cannot just magically pop something out and have it be really good quality. Typically something done in that fashion results in it being average at best and it's rare when it is stellar. My only concern is that I hope this doesn't backfire and end up turning people off from the show before the show even gets to air.

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Mike Olbinski 4 months ago 1 point
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I get what you're saying, but we really have no idea how or when the story was developed. I mean, this could have been in Abrams' head for awhile now, and we just are hearing about it today.

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The Trousered Ape 4 months ago 1 point
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True - and I hope that is the case. To give credit to J.J. Abrams, he has never done anything halfway, at least the projects that I am familiar with. I can give him the benefit of the doubt.

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Cap'n Schwartz 4 months ago 1 point
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Becuase if they dont do a comic book then they are going to do a prequel movie-series anyways and I dunno about you, but enough with the prequels stories, tell us what happens AFTER we have seen such movie (i.e. StarWars-Star trek, etc...).. just my useless 2 cents

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Mike Olbinski 4 months ago 1 point
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Then you are going to hate the new Caprica series :)

I love GOOD prequel stuff...besides, it's not as much a prequel than a "preview" probably of what we can expect.

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Cap'n Schwartz 4 months ago 1 point
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Although the series itself may be well written and very interesting, I personally find it more interesting if they would tell us what happnes next, not what happened before... just a preference, the series itself may be wonderful, from a story standpoint I prefer to know what happened next...

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jina 4 months ago 1 point
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I think that they are probably using the comic book angle to bring in interest from a certain demographic to the show (i.e. the Comic-Con group, which has been good to JJ in the past liek with Lost). And if they do it right (which JJ Abrams is pretty good at) then it will probably work, at least to some degree.

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The Trousered Ape 4 months ago 1 point
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Maybe - I hadn't thought of that angle...

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