The Power of the Dark Crystal | |
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Publication information | |
Publisher | Boom Studios |
Format | Limited series |
Genre | Fantasy |
Publication date | 2017—2018 |
No. of issues | 12 |
Creative team | |
Written by | Annette Duffy (screenplay) David Odell (screenplay) Simon Spurrier |
Artist(s) | Kelly and Nichole Matthews |
Letterer(s) | Jim Campbell |
Editor(s) | Sierra Hahn |
The Power of the Dark Crystal is a 2017 comic book limited series that is a sequel to 1982 film The Dark Crystal. [1] This series has a sequel, Beneath the Dark Crystal.
For decades, a sequel for the 1982 film The Dark Crystal had been planned as a motion picture, but ended up being adapted into a comic instead. [2] [3]
The unproduced screenplay was by David Odell, Annette Odell and Craig Pearce. [4]
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plot summary. (January 2019) |
It is set years after the events of the 1982 film where the Dark Crystal was healed and peace was restored on Thra. The world is faced with needing to reignite a dying sun at the center of the planet. The story of Power of the Dark Crystal follows the adventures of a young Fireling named Thurma, together with Kensho, a Gelfling outcast, that steal a shard of the Crystal of Truth in an attempt to reignite the dying sun. [5]
The comic received a mostly positive reception from critics. [6] [7] [8] [9]
The Power of the Dark Crystal | |
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Publication information | |
Publisher | Boom Studios |
Format | Limited series |
Genre | Fantasy |
Publication date | 2017—2018 |
No. of issues | 12 |
Creative team | |
Written by | Annette Duffy (screenplay) David Odell (screenplay) Simon Spurrier |
Artist(s) | Kelly and Nichole Matthews |
Letterer(s) | Jim Campbell |
Editor(s) | Sierra Hahn |
The Power of the Dark Crystal is a 2017 comic book limited series that is a sequel to 1982 film The Dark Crystal. [1] This series has a sequel, Beneath the Dark Crystal.
For decades, a sequel for the 1982 film The Dark Crystal had been planned as a motion picture, but ended up being adapted into a comic instead. [2] [3]
The unproduced screenplay was by David Odell, Annette Odell and Craig Pearce. [4]
![]() | This section needs an improved
plot summary. (January 2019) |
It is set years after the events of the 1982 film where the Dark Crystal was healed and peace was restored on Thra. The world is faced with needing to reignite a dying sun at the center of the planet. The story of Power of the Dark Crystal follows the adventures of a young Fireling named Thurma, together with Kensho, a Gelfling outcast, that steal a shard of the Crystal of Truth in an attempt to reignite the dying sun. [5]
The comic received a mostly positive reception from critics. [6] [7] [8] [9]