Open up a can of mixed vegetables, fondle your sweaters, and prepare to cancel your baseball game against the anonymously evil campers from Camp Tiger Claw because the plan for your ragtag team of underdogs to come from behind and win has been deemed “kind of trite.” It’s Wet Hot American Summer The Graphic Novel!
That’s right, folks! The zero budget comedy that became a cult sensation and two Netflix series is finally making its way to the comic realm with an all-new original graphic novel. Beth, McKinley, Mitch, Suze, Victor, Gene… All your favorite denizens of Camp Firewood are here after their first tumultuous week to deepen further what appears to be the most exciting summer ever.
[For any Wet Hot fans curious, the graphic novel takes place on the second week of that fateful summer at Camp Firewood, before the original movie and long before the fabled Ten Years Later].
With a tabletop RPG, multiple series, articles, interviews, tell-all books, there has never been a better time to make the journey to Camp Firewood. And if you’re like me and you once watched Wet Hot twice in one day with two different sets of friends, have played your DVD copy ad nauseum, ravenously consumed both Netflix series multiple times, dove deep into the directorial work of David Wain and the larger work of The State, this is definitely the graphic novel for you.
Though David Wain and Michael Showalter signed off on this creation, they’re leaving the creative duties in the hands of some comics veterans. Noah Hayes (Goldie Vance) is going to bring Camp Firewood to stunning sequential life. And Christopher Hastings (Gwenpool, Infinity Warps) is the exact right person to crack the unique tone and strange heart that makes WET HOT AMERICAN SUMMER what it is.
If you’re looking for a hilarious book that is sure to startle and delight in these crisp autumn months, then might I recommend WET HOT AMERICAN SUMMER The Graphic Novel available now at Forbidden Planet?
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