War has had the effect of turning the most saintly, and honorable men into monsters. In a isolated Fire Base in a remote region of Afghanistan, a group of United States Marines are finding out that the irate villagers, and Taliban are the least of their worries.
HEADS UP! This comic doesn’t come out until June 16th, 2011. SPOILERS ahead!
Boom! Studios sent Major Spoilers a sneak peek of titles arriving in stores December 02, 2009. Take the jump for 28 Days Later #4, Dingo #1, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep #6, Donald Duck and Friends #348, The Incredibles #3, Kill Audio #3, and the Unthinkable trade paperback.
Boom! Studios has announced that the Mark Sable created mini-series Unthinkable has been optioned by Mandalay Pictures to be turned into a feature film.
“Unthinkable†centers on a brilliant man who was recruited just after 9/11 into a government think tank consisting of America’s most imaginative minds and tasked with dreaming up wild scenarios for possible attacks on U.S. soil. Years after the think tank was disbanded, the attacks the man concocted begin to occur, and he becomes the only one who can stop them. But the government has become his pursuer.
We’ve covered the series since it first debuted, and commented early on that this was a story that was perfect for a big screen adaptation.  This is the sixth Boom! Studios title that has been optioned for a motion picture.
Yes, Mark Sable was detained by HLS
Unthinkable is one mind trip of a series, the kind I’ve come to expect from Boom! Studios. For those tuning into the late night conspiracy radio programs, or trolling around the conspiracy boards, the doomsday scenarios spelled out in this series don’t come as a surprise. What does make this issue different is how Mark Sable is able to make all of them fit together into the ultimate end of days book.
If one disaster is bad, then more disasters are… disastrous
Mark Sable began the overthrow of the planet and the beginning of the New World Order in the first issue of Boom! Studios Unthinkable. While things looked bleak as a new plague swept across the world, issue #2 is downright depressing as the secret government goes after a few more targets.
Next week is a week of second issues from Boom! Studios, with Mr. Stuffins #2, The Unknown #2, and Unthinkable #2 hitting stores. Also arriving in stores is the first issue of Toy Story: The Mysterious Stranger, and the fourth volume of Zombie Tales: This Bites. Boom! has provided a sneak peek of these issues, that you can see after the jump.
There have been many unthinkable acts carried out by agencies and forces bent on instilling fear in their enemies. But what if the enemy we think we know, is really the friend we thought we knew? And what if those friends took our ideas and did something unthinkable with them? That’s the premise behind the latest thriller from Boom! Studios, and darn it, if it doesn’t strike a little close to home.
This is why I don’t carry my copy of the Illuminatus! Trilogy on board planes anymore. If this is the real deal, things have gotten really strange in this country. Check out the press release Boom! Studios sent to us about Mark Sable getting held up by the TSA after they discovered his script for Unthinkable.
From the press release:
Comics writer Mark Sable was detained by TSA security guards at LAX this past weekend when they discovered inflammatory material in a script for Sable’s new BOOM Studios miniseries UNTHINKABLE. The comic series follows members of a government think tank that was tasked with coming up with 9/11-type “unthinkable†terrorist scenarios that now are coming true.
Sable was detained while traveling from LAX to NYC to attend a signing for the premiere of UNTHINKABLE #1 at Jim Hanley’s Universe this Wednesday, May 13th.
Fans and friends were made aware of the TSA detention when Sable “Twittered†about the events at twitter.com/marksable, after he was released.