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\n\tDavid Dastmalchian is continuing his budding career as a comics author with a brand new horror title for upstart publisher Panick Entertainment.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe actor, who can currently be seen in The Life of Chuck <\/em>as well as Dexter: Resurrection<\/em>, is working on The Accessories<\/em>, a five-issue mini-series that he co-created and is co-writing with longtime creative associate Leah Kirkpatrick. The comic and details will be unveiled at Dastmalchian\u2019s Saturday panel at San Diego Comic-Con.<\/p>\n \n\tPatrick Piazzalunga is illustrating the books which Panick will publish next year. Panick is the horror and science fiction venture that launched last year and was founded by a cadre of entertainment and comics industry veterans, including several from the world of DC.<\/p>\n \n\tAccessories focuses on the classic side characters that have supported some of horrordom\u2019s most vile villains \u2014 Igor, the assistant to many mad scientists; Renfield, the lackey to Dracula; and Mrs. Hyde, the wife of dual personality-challenged Dr. Jeckyll\/Mr. Hyde.<\/p>\n \n\tThe logline and premise reads:<\/p>\n \n\tAfter lifetimes in the background, three of history\u2019s greatest horror sidekicks finally say what they\u2019ve never dared to before: Enough is enough!<\/em><\/p>\n \n\tIgor, Renfield and Mrs. Hyde have aided their masters\u2019 diabolical missions for decades but today is the day they stop being loyal. Today the real horror walks out the front door. The looming question is\u2026what do they do now? These three discarded servants find each other in the fallout, forming a band of gawky but determined anti-heroes caught between angry villagers, vengeful monster-hunters and furious former employers. Their survival will take more than just guts, luckily, they know where to procure more.<\/em><\/p>\n \n\tIn a darkly comic descent into revenge and rebirth, the hench finally\u00a0claim\u00a0the title they never asked for\u2026The Accessories!!<\/em><\/p>\n \n\tDastmalchian has built a notable career working with directors such as James Gunn, Christopher Nolan and Denis Villeneuve, with many of their movies falling directly into the geek sphere bullseye. And he next shoots the villain role of Mr. Bison in video game adaptation Street Fighter<\/em>.<\/p>\n \n\tBut he is also birthing a body of comic writing work. Among the highlights is his horror creation Count Crowley<\/em>, which is published by Dark Horse.<\/p>\n \n\tPanick is focused on genre storytelling, beginning in the field of comics and graphic novels, and then aims to platform that into films, television, games and other media. So Accessories<\/em> has plans beyond the printed page.<\/p>\n \n\tThe first issue is due to hit shelves on June 2, 2026. Check out the first look below.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCourtesy of Panick Entertainment<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" David Dastmalchian is continuing his budding career as a comics author with a brand new horror title for upstart publisher Panick Entertainment. The actor, who can currently be seen in The Life of Chuck as well as Dexter: Resurrection, is working on The Accessories, a five-issue mini-series that he co-created and is co-writing with longtime<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12397,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[5982,3516,5981,999,386],"class_list":{"0":"post-12396","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-accessories","9":"tag-comic","10":"tag-dastmalchian","11":"tag-david","12":"tag-horror"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}