According to this article from
buddytv.com, Supernatural: Rising Son
is a six-issue
miniseries that will tell another story about the young Sam and Dean
Winchester, much to the enjoyment of comic collectors of the
Supernatural:
Origins comic books published by WildStorm last year. The
first issue is set to hit stores on April 23 and will pick up a few
years after Origins, following a 7-year-old Sam and
11-year-old Dean as they
travel with their father, John.
“Whereas
the first series was more about John and his becoming a hunter, this
one's much more of a dysfunctional family story,” explains writer
Peter Johnson, who's also a co-executive producer on the TV show.
“We're really going to explore the differences between Sam and Dean
in this one,” Johnson continues. “Dean is becoming aware of what
his dad's up to and we'll see him training and hunting a little bit,
while John will start to key in on something different about Sam.”
The bad news about the series is that show creator Eric Kripke, who
had a lot of input on Origins, couldn't have any involvement
due to the writers' strike. While the strike doesn't preclude people
from writing comic books, Kripke bowed out due to the thin line
between writing for a TV series and writing a comic based on a TV
series.
Despite that, Johnson promises that the Rising Son
story will fit in nicely with the show, and even feature some
familiar faces such as Bobby, a fellow demon hunter. He also says
that readers should expect “freakier monsters,” including “some
badass female villains and a big bad villain that may have something
to do with the TV show.”
For those who missed Origins in
its single issue format, a trade paperback collecting the entire
series will be published in April. Johnson also mentions that he made
an editorial change in the collected edition regarding the
Winchester's signature Chevy Impala. In the original comic the
Impala was something John found on the road, but due to the protests
of fans it will now be something that was in the Winchester family
prior to the beginning of the comic series.
There's already talk
of a third miniseries being planned that would bring the story right
up to the pilot of the television series. Even with Supernatural
being sidelined due to the writers' strike, fans of the
Winchester boys should have plenty of demon slaying fun to indulge in
for months to come.