BANSH E E: OR IG I NS

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Written by Jonathan Tropper Visual Consultant Greg Yaitanes Extra Content by David Schickler Art by Mike Henderson Colors by Jeremy Colwell Lettering by Shawn Lee Adapted and Edited by Tom Waltz Foreword by Alan Ball Cover by Mike Henderson Colors by Jeremy Colwell

BANSHEE ORIGINS is based on the new original Cinemax series BANSHEE

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When Jonathan Tropper and David Schickler first came in to pitch Banshee to me and my producing partner Peter Macdissi, I was struck by how thorough and vivid the world that they had created for the show was. No matter what questions we asked, they had already figured out an answer. Characters were more than mere archetypesthey were fully fleshed out, with complicated histories that could be mined for stories for years to come. The town of Banshee itself had just as complex a history. Mythic small-town America. Original tribal lands of the Kinaho Indians. New world home to the old-world ways of the Pennsylvania Dutch. Drug dealers. Neo-Nazi skinheads. Ukrainian gangsters. Dumb rednecks. Badass Asian crossdressers. Your typical pastoral American town with a dark, seedy underbelly of sex and violence and greed and impossible love. Then Greg Yaitanes came on board to run the show, and I started watching episodes come together. Gregs vision really brought the world to life and I loved how dense the world of Banshee continued to become. A title sequence tells a different story in every episode. A surprise scene after end titles. Prequel scenes giving us a glimpse of earlier moments in characters lives. Bits of story spread across a variety of platforms, always making the world even richer and vivid. Of course, there had to be a comic book. Banshee has had a graphic novel feel to it since the very beginning. And what better medium to tell the story of the fateful night when Lucas and Carrie (nee Anastasia) attempted what was supposed to be their last heistand how that night changed each of their lives forever? Alan Ball Creator of True Blood and an Executive Producer of the new Cinemax Original Series, Banshee October 2012

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