Chuck Palahniuk brings ‘Fight Club 2’ to Dark Horse in 2015

Writer Chuck Palahniuk has announced (via USA Today) that his highly anticipated sequel to the seminal Fight Club will be coming to Dark Horse as a 10-issue mini-series from 8 April 2015. Interior art will be incoming Batgirl creative Cameron Stewart, with covers by the phenomenal David Mack. [Insert obligatory joke about not talking about Fight Club].

Fight Club 2 will pick up 10 years after the original 1996 novel, with the troubled insomniac narrator now married to the equally erratic Marla Singer, with a 9-year-old son that he feels he is failing the same way his own father failed him. There’s also the suggestion that Tyler Durden may be something more that a figment in his mind.

Artist Stewart goes on to say that the art style may tend towards the cartoony because it’s “more appropriate for the density of the story and for some of its more absurdly comical moments.”

The last we heard about this project was during last year’s Comic-Con International in San Diego, a move that Palahniuk admits forced his hand. “I messed up and said I was doing the sequel in front of 1,500 geeks with telephones,” Palahniuk says. “Suddenly, there was this big scramble to honor my word.”

Head’s up to those of you who have only seen the 1999 film by David Fincher, starring Edward Norton and Brad Pitt. It’s terrific, but the ending is quite different, so you may need to brush up on your Palahniuk before next year.