Comic book legend Todd McFarlane has created his very own Halloween poster, which features Michael Myers' iconic mask. McFarlane has worked as a writer and illustrator on many comic books, but is mostly known for his work on the Spawn comics, and for co-creating the Spider-Man character Venom.
Much like Venom and Spawn, Michael Myers has been a popular character for many years. Michael was first depicted in John Carpenter's famous horror film Halloween in 1978. Many other directors have made films featuring the iconic serial killer over the last 40 years. There has been a total of ten Halloween movies since the character was created in the '70s, including Halloween III: Season of the Witch, which had nothing to do with Myers. The most recent entry into the Halloween franchise was in 2009, when Rob Zombie made a sequel to his divisive 2007 Halloween remake. 40 years after Michael terrorized Haddonfield, Illinois, the character is returning to the big screen thanks to director David Gordon Green. A Halloween poster was previously revealed at San Diego Comic-Con, and now McFarlane has revealed his revamped poster at New York Comic Con.
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McFarlane's exclusive New York Comic Con poster was revealed by Halloween's official Twitter account. Following the trend from other Halloween posters, McFarlane's poster is quite simple, and just features Michael Myers' iconic white mask. As well-known as the character is, not a whole lot else is needed in a poster promoting the film, yet McFarlane gives his poster incredible detail when it comes to making the mask look old and worn. He also gives Myers completely black voids where his eyes should be, referencing Dr. Loomis' famous speech about his former patient in Carpenter's original.
While there have been multiple Halloween installments over the years, the upcoming film will actually be a direct sequel to only Carpenter's original. The last seven sequels and Zombie's two films are now considered non-canon; however, the new Halloween will still reference those past entries. Even though most of the previous Halloween sequels have been anything but great, the upcoming film has a lot of potential, since it's not only retconning the past movies, but original star Jamie Lee Curtis is reprising her role of Laurie Strode as well. It's also important to a lot of horror fans that Carpenter himself is heavily involved in the new film, even once again composing the score.
Even though the comics legend is in no way involved with the sequel, it's interesting to see McFarlane's take on the Halloween property. McFarlane previously released a toy line called "Movie Maniacs" which featured Michael Myers, but this is one of the first times fans have seen Michael come to life via McFarlane's artwork. Hopefully it won't be the last.
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