EXCLUSIVE: Upfront of Comedian-Con 2025, Gale Anne Hurd‘s Valhalla Leisure (The Strolling Useless) has acquired Yuletide, an upcoming Christmas-themed comedian e book from Oni Press (Scott Pilgrim vs. The World), for function improvement.
Created by author George Northy (EC’s Shiver SuspenStories) and artist Rachele Aragno (Mike Mignola’s Leonide the Vampire), with its first challenge set to hit stands in October, the comedian is described as a fast-paced household journey within the custom of The Goonies, Goosebumps, and Hocus Pocus with a horrifying vacation twist. Within the story, historic Norse creatures let free upon an idyllic Northeastern city on the top of the gift-giving season — and the one three youngsters able to holding them at bay with an historic secret tied to the origins of the vacation itself.
Welcome to the small city of Christmas, Pennsylvania – the merriest place on Earth… or in order that they’d like everybody to assume. When December rolls round, these of us pull out all of the stops for America’s largest, brightest vacation show — however not everybody in Christmas, PA, is so enthusiastic. Youngsters Jake, Abe, and Wyn are extra at the hours of darkness aspect of the vacation that their mother and father prefer to faux doesn’t exist — the traditional legends of mythic monsters and pagan pandemonium which can be deeply tied to the pageant’s long-forgotten origins. So when their pastime leads them to an deserted wing of the native Christmas museum to analyze, they’ll uncover an historic relic that, when activated, will carry a livid procession of yuletide horrors lengthy since banished from our airplane — and with it, a darkness that has been ready centuries for its probability to overhaul the world.
Northy – a author/producer greatest recognized for his work on Charmed for The CW and his current comics debut as a part of Oni’s best-selling EC Comics relaunch – will produce and script the difference. Hurd and Phillip Kobylanski will produce for Valhalla Leisure, alongside David Steward II, Hunter Gorinson, and Jeremy Colfer for Oni Press.
In a press release to Deadline, the comedian’s writer Northy mentioned, “I’ve lengthy been fascinated by the darkish, unusual, obscure Yuletide monsters from varied cultures, from Germany to Iceland to Wales. The way in which these demons have been buried and forgotten felt like the proper metaphor for a way we regularly bury our personal darkness and private demons all through the vacations. If Buffy taught us “Excessive Faculty may be Hell,” then Yuletide will present that one of the simplest ways of coping with our personal vacation demons isn’t by pretending they aren’t there, it’s by going through them collectively.”
Valhalla Leisure’s Hurd mentioned, “There’s a lot unbelievable lore of the midwinter that runs the danger of being forgotten to time. With Yuletide, George and Rachele have given us the proper alternative to carry these larger-than-life characters again to life to allow them to proceed to hang-out us for generations to come back.”
Added Hunter Gorinson, President & Writer at Oni Press, “Each occasionally, a staff of creators emerges with a pitch so impressed, so compelling, and so dead-center on the bullseye that it instantly provokes one query: ‘Why hasn’t anybody considered this earlier than?’ So it was with George and Rachele’s imaginative and prescient for YULETIDE – a narrative that comes joyously full of coronary heart, humor, and journey like so many items tightly packed right into a Christmas stocking. This can be a vacation story you’ll know by coronary heart in just some years’ time, and we couldn’t ask for higher companions in bringing to the web page and display screen.”
An iconic producer recognized for her work on franchises like The Strolling Useless and Terminator, together with traditional one-offs like Armageddon, Hurd’s Valhalla wrapped up its spin-off sequence Concern the Strolling Useless in 2023. Different current tasks embody Tales of the Strolling Useless and Syfy’s Hunters.
Oni Press is an indie comics imprint that has spurred many influential diversifications, together with director Edgar Wright’s Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (primarily based on creator Bryan Lee O’Malley’s Eisner Award-winning graphic novel sequence), director Sam Hargrave’s Extraction franchise for Netflix, and director David Leitch’s Atomic Blonde. Yuletide joins a improvement slate that additionally contains Hargrave’s Kill Them All, primarily based on the graphic novel by cartoonist Kyle Starks, for Paramount Footage.
