Tim Burton’s Edward Scissorhands Is Back, In Comic Book Form


Tim Burton fans have a new item for their Christmas wish lists, the Edward Scissorhands comic book. IDW Publishing is planning to release a 4 comic book miniseries that serve as distant sequels to Burton’s 1990 hit film.

Kate Leth (Adventure Time) is the writer for the new comic series and Drew Rausch (Haunted Mansion) is the illustrator. Although Tim Burton isn’t showing up in the credits, reviewers are saying that the comics are living up to the dark, romantic setting featured in the original film.

The first edition of Edward Scissorhands was released on October 22, picking up the story years after the movie’s end. The comic series makes no attempt to retell the Burton movies. Instead, the new miniseries focuses on Kim’s granddaughter, who is now much older. According to a Comic Book Resources interview with Kate Leth, Kim has passed away and almost everyone is new.

“We’ve got an almost entirely new cast. A whole new set of people. Her granddaughter and her daughter. It’s a new story, just set in the same universe.”

Just for a reminder, Kim was Edward’s romantic interest in the film, played by Winona Ryder.

As for Edward, he has returned to the shadows as not much more than a rumor among the townspeople. He’s just as socially incompetent as he was in Tim Burton’s original, if not more so.

“He got exposed to the world in a harsh and very quick way in the movie and after everything he sort of reverts into himself. The way you would in a traumatic situation.”

So how did the Scissorhands comic version happen?

According to Leth, the people at IDW called her up and asked her what she knew about the Tim Burton movie. She said, “I am definitely a Tim Burton fan. I had seen ‘Edward Scissorhands’ enough times to know it by heart. That’s exciting. To work on something you feel like you really get.”

There is something rare about the comic book. Burton story-lines usually have no sequels or continuation of any kind. The notable exceptions are the Beetlejuice cartoons (and rumors of a Beetlejuice 2) and the second Burton Batman movie in 1992. The movie Frankenweenie was originally a short, but that’s maybe getting too technical.

In any case, reviewers seem satisfied that with the story’s revival.

According to Bloody Disgusting, “It’s a playful nod toward the dark and spooky, but light and fun and engaging at the same time.”

[Image Credit: IDW Comics]

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