Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas is finally going to get a sequel — but it won’t be happening onscreen. Manga publisher Tokyopop has secured a license for the first-ever Nightmare Before Christmas comic book project that expands the story beyond what was seen in Tim Burton’s beloved 1993 holiday tale. The follow-up, Nightmare Before Christmas: Zero’s Journey, will follow Jack Skellington’s dog, Zero, as he gets lost in Christmas Town.
The format of the project will be unusual for the publisher; it will initially be serialized as full-color single issues released to comic book stores, before being collected in two different formats simultaneously, in full-color trade paperbacks and black and white “pocket-sized manga” volumes.
The series, written by DJ Milky with art from Studio DICE (which produced artwork for the manga adaptation of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast), follows up on Tokyopop’s adaptation of the original story, the cover for which is above. Zero’s Journey is targeted for a Spring 2018 launch, with more information about the series to be released in coming months.
