What’s the next Walking Dead? Who’s gonna be the next Invincible? Does our next animated adaption of a gory adult comic book HAVE to be from Robert Kirkman? Maybe not, if this latest venture between Boom Studios, publishers of action-horror series Something Is Killing The Children, and Hollywood studiio Blumhouse works out.

Something Is Killing The Children was originally announced by Boom in 2019 as a limited series of just five issues. Something must’ve convinced them it had more potential than that, because it was then changed to an ongoing book before release. They were correct in smelling a hit. 45 issues have now been published, and Boom has committed to producing a hundred.

As for what it’s about…the title gives away a lot. Yes, something is killing the children, but who’s going to do something about it? There’s this world of monsters that only kids can see. The boogeyman, the thing in the closet and under the bed, all real and hungry for kindergartners. That’s where Erica Slaughter, a monster hunter with a very on-the-nose name, steps in. Where did Erica come from and who is she working for? Why can SHE see the monsters? These are questions the animated series may answer, if the comic doesn’t first.

Something Is Killing The Children will be adapted and executive-produced by co-creator James Tynion IV, with fellow co-creator Werther Dell’Edera serving as Co-Executive Producer and visual development consultant.

“Something is Killing the Children is the comic book that changed my life and career forever.” said James Tynion IV, “Finding a partner who understood the potential of Erica Slaughter and the world Werther Dell’Edera and I have built was crucial, and we have found that partner in Jason Blum. Nobody understands horror better than Blumhouse, and I can’t wait for the world to see what we all have planned together.”

At this same time, Boom and Blumhouse are also developing a live-action movie about the same comic. Which will make it to market first? Will both? Will neither? All we know is something may be killing the children soon, whether on TV or the big screen.

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