Screenwriter Eric Heisserer to Publish a Comics Mini-Series

Eric Heisserer, a Hollywood screenwriter who has worked on the scripts for The Thing and Final Destination 5, has been writing a comics project.

Dark Horse Comics will publish the first issue of Shaper on March 18th; four more installments will follow. Felipe Massafera, an artist who has worked on the Green Lantern: Emerald Warriors and Captain Midnight series, has signed on to create the artwork.

Here’s more from the press release: “A galactic empire hunts a race of shape shifters prophesied to overthrow its rule. When orphaned teenager Spry discovers that he is one of the hunted—a Shaper—he must learn to use his newfound abilities to escape the empire’s prime enforcer, Tor Ajax, and save his entire race!”