Iron Maiden’s cyborg Eddie is getting another hardcover stage. Somewhere in Time: The Graphic Album arrives March 2, 2027 from Z2 Comics, adapting the band’s 1986 record track by track, Consequence reports.
The book opens and closes with a prologue and epilogue from Kelly Sue DeConnick and Andy MacDonald, then runs comic versions of all eight album songs from a stacked creative roster that includes Steve Niles, Goran Parlov, Leah Moore, John Reppion, David Dastmalchian and others. Comic-art legend Bill Sienkiewicz pens the introduction; Phantom’s Dave Shack contributes an extensive interview with Maiden guitarist Adrian Smith about making the album.
Smith called the Somewhere in Time Eddie “a great version… my favorite version of Eddie probably,” praising the muscular menace that matches the record’s sound, AIPT notes in related coverage. Deluxe and Platinum editions ship in metallic Time Machine slipcases with a die-cut green acetate targeting lens and Blake Armstrong covers, plus signed Adrian Smith bookplates and art prints. Retail covers rotate Jay Geldhof, Dan Mumford and Tony Harris exclusives by channel.
Z2 previously partnered with Maiden on the Piece of Mind graphic album and Bruce Dickinson’s The Mandrake Project: Year One. The new book lines up beside the band’s announced spring 2027 North American tour rather than replacing it.
Music-to-comics albums keep filling 2027 bookstore tables next to prose adaptations such as Viking’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory graphic novel. Maiden’s bet is that Somewhere in Time’s futurist Eddie still sells as a listening companion you can leave on the coffee table.
Preorders are already the call to action. March 2, 2027 is the street date; the slipcase editions are the collector bait; and Sienkiewicz’s intro is the comics-credibility seal on a metal record that never really left the poster aisle.
Track-by-track graphic albums live or die on whether each song gets a short that feels like a music video you can hold. With eight adaptations plus bookend pages from DeConnick and MacDonald, Z2 is packing Somewhere in Time like a listening party with a stapled script — aimed at fans who want Eddie on the shelf beside the remaster, not instead of it.
