Fans who are old enough to remember the VHS era of video stores have probably seen the iconic box art for the Deathstalker series of sword-and-sorcery movies, which concealed their thin budgets and low production values behind lavish movie posters and copious amounts of nudity. The series began with 1982’s Deathstalker. It spanned four films, featured three different lead actors, and is probably most famous for having its third installment featured on an episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000.Still, there was a certain charm to the Deathstalker films that captured the imagination of a number of future musicians, directors, and comic creators during their formative years. Several of them have come together to reintroduce the cult favorite barbarian in Slash Presents Deathstalker, a graphic novel from Vault Comics by writer Tim Seeley and artist Jim Terry that’s currently available for backing on Kickstarter and will be released to backers and local comic shops in September 2024. CBR spoke with Seeley about bringing Deathstalker’s unique blend of sword-and-sorcery and nudity to a contemporary comics audience, his connection to the series, and working with the legendary guitarist of Guns N’ Roses, Slash, and Steven Kostanski, the writer/director of cult favorite films Psycho Goreman and Manborg.Tim Seeley: [Laughs] That’s a great description of that movie.
Fans who are old enough to remember the VHS era of video stores have probably seen the iconic box art for the Deathstalker series of sword-and-sorcery movies, which concealed their thin budgets and low production values behind lavish movie posters and copious amounts of nudity. The series began with 1982’s Deathstalker. It spanned four films, featured three different lead actors, and is probably most famous for having its third installment featured on an episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000.
Still, there was a certain charm to the Deathstalker films that captured the imagination of a number of future musicians, directors, and comic creators during their formative years. Several of them have come together to reintroduce the cult favorite barbarian in Slash Presents Deathstalker, a graphic novel from Vault Comics by writer Tim Seeley and artist Jim Terry that’s currently available for backing on Kickstarter and will be released to backers and local comic shops in September 2024. CBR spoke with Seeley about bringing Deathstalker’s unique blend of sword-and-sorcery and nudity to a contemporary comics audience, his connection to the series, and working with the legendary guitarist of Guns N’ Roses, Slash, and Steven Kostanski, the writer/director of cult favorite films Psycho Goreman and Manborg.
Tim Seeley: [Laughs] That’s a great description of that movie.
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