Licensed comics are a dime a dozen nowadays (well, not literally, because comics are crazy expensive). Publishers like IDW practically build their entire livelihood on producing follow up work focussed on existing, beloved properties from Ghostbusters to X-Files; Dynamite currently have a crossover involving old King newspaper strip characters; every prematurely cancelled Joss Whedon TV show has continued as a comic. In most of those cases the Whedon lot are an exception those books rarely involve input from the filmmakers, TV showrunners and writers that originated the properties. Which almost always means that they kind of suck, divorced from the vision of the creators who started things off. Thankfully, Fight Club 2 is totally Chuck Palahniuk's baby. The author of the original book will be penning the story for the sequel, his first original comics work, and it doesn't seem like a cheap cash-in. He's been waiting for years to produce a follow up, and apparently comics struck Palahniuk as the right medium.
Tom Baker is the Comics Editor at WhatCulture! He's heard all the Doctor Who jokes, but not many about Randall and Hopkirk. He also blogs at http://communibearsilostate.wordpress.com/
