Black Mirror’s most unsettling early episode is getting the comics treatment. Twisted Comics revealed at MCM London Comic Con on Oct. 23 that its third Black Mirror graphic novel will adapt White Bear, Bleeding Cool reports.
The book follows the publisher’s adaptations of USS Callister and San Junipero. White Bear is written by series creator Charlie Brooker and Twisted Comics founder Neil Gibson, with art by Piotr Kowalski, and it is due from Twisted Comics next year. No release date or price has been announced yet.
White Bear first aired in 2013 as the second episode of Black Mirror’s second season. Written by Brooker and directed by Carl Tibbetts, it stars Lenora Crichlow as Victoria Skillane, a woman who wakes up in a house with almost no memory of who she is. Outside, the world seems to have fallen apart: crowds of people silently film her on their phones while masked hunters try to catch her.
A small group of survivors takes her in and explains that a mysterious signal has turned most of the population into passive watchers, leaving only a few people able to act. The episode builds to one of the show’s most talked-about twists, and it is often ranked among the strongest hours of early Black Mirror for the way it looks at crime, punishment and how easily people turn suffering into entertainment.
That focus on crowds that watch and record instead of helping should make for striking comic pages. With White Bear, Twisted Comics continues building its Black Mirror line one episode at a time, giving readers a new way into stories many fans already know well.
Graphic novels based on real and fictional history keep finding new audiences, from Black Mirror to projects like Jake Tapper’s Klaus Barbie graphic novel. Twisted Comics is exhibiting at MCM London Comic Con through the weekend, and more details on White Bear are expected as the release gets closer.
