Who You Gonna Brawl? Chew Creators John Layman and Rob Guillory Reunite for Ghostbrawler

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When writer John Layman and creator Rob Guillory get together, you cognize the results are going to beryllium memorable. Previously, the duo collaborated connected the Eisner Award-winning detective bid Chew, which is present being adapted arsenic a live-action amusement astatine Blumhouse Productions and Atomic Monster. Now they're reuniting for an arsenic quirky caller project, a supernatural action/comedy bid called Ghostbrawler. Yes, it's astir a feline who punches ghosts.

With the crowdfunding run for Ghostbrawler present live, IGN tin exclusively debut a caller preview of the series. Check it retired successful the slideshow assemblage below:

Ghostbrawler #1 Preview Gallery

Ghostbrawler volition beryllium serialized by Image Comics successful 2027. However, fans person the accidental to acquisition the communicative aboriginal acknowledgment to the Kickstarter campaign. Layman and Guillory are crowdfunding Ghostbrawler: Brusier Edition, which features the series' opening storyline successful a unsocial black, blue, and achromatic colour scheme.

Here's the authoritative summary for Ghostbrawler:

In GHOSTBRAWLER, Joey is simply a good-hearted musclehead from the vicinity who’s ever been unlucky, calved down the 8 ball. After a fatal punch successful the ringing leaves him dead, helium returns with the quality to spot and physically interact with ghosts and different supernatural beings.Now he’s the feline you telephone erstwhile your house, church, oregon graveyard is infested with spirits—clearing them retired the lone mode helium knows how: with muscles and knuckles. But the jobs don’t pay, and Joey is buried nether mob debt, pistillate trouble, a precise dormant overbearing mother, territorial occultists, Vatican scrutiny, and the guilt of having accidentally killed his champion friend, whom he’s hopeless to marque bid with.

“Ghostbrawler is our emotion missive to Chew fans," Guillory tells IGN. "It’s been years since John and I collaborated connected anything, and I’m ever amazed that readers not lone retrieve america fondly, but inactive clamor for america to get the set backmost together. So Ghostbrawler was the earthy acceptable for our reunion. It’s hard-hitting and irreverent with a large freaking heart. And I deliberation aged fans and caller fans volition emotion it.”

"We’re looking guardant to getting this publication retired into the world, and this achromatic & bluish Ghostbrawler: Bruiser Edition gives fans a mode to get successful connected the crushed level and assistance guarantee we get a creaseless motorboat erstwhile the regular full-color ongoing bid debuts from Image successful aboriginal 2027," Layman says. "This Bruiser Edition is going to beryllium a chill and wholly unsocial keepsake, visually chiseled from its ongoing counterpart, and we are doing everything we tin to marque this arsenic awesome arsenic humanly possible, portion offering options for each budget."

For more, cheque retired IGN's archetypal reappraisal of Chew #1.

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