The comic, from writer Brian Haberlin, follows a group of soldiers guarding a remote military storage facility where unique items and artifacts are kept (things like alien weaponry, Thor’s hammer, and the Ark of the Covenant). When a lethal extraterrestrial escapes containment, the team of misfits must use the crated objects on hand to defeat it. This is actually the second time this relatively simplistic but unquestionably commercial property has been optioned since its publication a few years ago – it was previously set up as a possible Universal movie.
Benderspink are no strangers to adapting works – previous efforts A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE and the US version of THE RING were based on graphic novel material, while other properties in their pile include STAR BLAZERS and comic series EX MACHINA, Y THE LAST MAN and POWER AND GLORY.