Back in 2022, we reported that Dark Horse Comics had the comic book license to the Rocky Horror Picture Show. and were told that Dark Horse would be publishing a series for the then-upcoming 50th anniversary of the Rocky Horror Show stage musical from 1973 by Richard O’Brien. But 2023 came and went without… issue. But at the London Book Fair yesterday, I got word that Dark Horse will be publishing the Rocky Horror Show #1 comic book for Halloween 2025, as the 50th anniversary of the film from 1975. Oh yes, and that it will be written by Magdalene Visaggio.

Magdalene Visaggio is a prominent comic book writer, and her work includes the likes of Kim & Kim, Calamity Kate, Eternity Girl, Transformers, Galaxy Of Madness, Rick And Morty, Doctor Mirage, Rebel Moon and Vagrant Queen, which was turned into a SyFy TV series. She is also one of the more prominent trans creators in the North American comic book industry. And she contributed to the book of essays Absolute Pleasure: Queer Reflections on Five Messy Decades of Rocky Horror.

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Previously, The Rocky Horror Picture Show was adapted into comics by Kevin VanHook as a three-issue mini-series by Caliber Comics in 1990, and collected in a trade paperback, but it has been out of print for decades. Notably this is the Rocky Horror Show, which does differ from the film version. The collection also included extra pages containing song lyrics, profiles, and an interview with Richard O’Brien.