Banshee Origins Comic Book

BANSH E E: OR IG I NS
Cover by Mike Henderson
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Written by Jonathan Tropper
Visual Consultant Greg Yaitanes
Extra Content by David Schickler
Art by Mike Henderson
Colors by Jeremy Colwell
Lettering by Shawn Lee
Adapted and Edited by Tom Waltz
Foreword by Alan Ball
Cover by Mike Henderson Colors by Jeremy Colwell
BANSHEE ORIGINS is based on the new original Cinemax series BANSHEE
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When Jonathan Tropper and David Schickler first came in to pitch Banshee to me and my
producing partner Peter Macdissi, I was struck by how thorough and vivid the world that they
had created for the show was. No matter what questions we asked, they had already figured
out an answer. Characters were more than mere archetypes—they were fully fleshed out, with
complicated histories that could be mined for stories for years to come. The town of Banshee
itself had just as complex a history. Mythic small-town America. Original tribal lands of the
Kinaho Indians. New world home to the old-world ways of the Pennsylvania Dutch. Drug
dealers. Neo-Nazi skinheads. Ukrainian gangsters. Dumb rednecks. Badass Asian crossdressers. Your typical pastoral American town with a dark, seedy underbelly of sex and violence
and greed… and impossible love.
Then Greg Yaitanes came on board to run the show, and I started watching episodes come
together. Greg’s vision really brought the world to life and I loved how dense the world of
Banshee continued to become. A title sequence tells a different story in every episode. A
surprise scene after end titles. Prequel scenes giving us a glimpse of earlier moments in
characters’ lives. Bits of story spread across a variety of platforms, always making the world
even richer and vivid.
Of course, there had to be a comic book. Banshee has had a graphic novel feel to it since the
very beginning. And what better medium to tell the story of the fateful night when Lucas and
Carrie (nee Anastasia) attempted what was supposed to be their last heist—and how that night
changed each of their lives forever?
Alan Ball
Creator of True Blood and an Executive Producer of the new Cinemax Original Series, Banshee
October 2012
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