The truth is out there, and it's John Harrow's job to make sure you never discover it! Justin Jordan and Ariela Kristantina's first issue of DEEP STATE went on sale earlier this month and it's all about a shadowy organization attempting to make sure the general public believes all of the crazy things that have really happened are nothing more than conspiracy theories. The first issue started a story that reveals there's much more to the moon landing and we gave it a 4-star review. Apparently, we weren't the only ones who liked it! BOOM! Studios has announced the comic is going to second printing because it sold out at the distributor level. On top of that, the rights were sold as a TV drama which is "part of its first-look deal with 20th Century Fox TV."

So yeah, as you can see, DEEP STATE is kind of like The X-Files meets Men in Black, which obviously makes for a pretty promising TV series. You know, assuming it's given a team who goes all-out and the show doesn't air at a terrible timeslot. Have you read the first issue and can you see it being turned into a solid TV series? If you haven't checked it out yet, does this news motivate you to give it a look?

Hmm, I still have to read that first issue so I can't really say anything about the story itself.

For BOOM! Studios this certainly is great publicity and marketing for a brand new comic book and having sold the TV rights probably means the next 2-3 arcs have just been funded, too.

About time to start reading the book...

loved the first issue i'm surprised its already getting picked up for tv

I'm not liking the trend of comic book getting TV SHows before it ends or even reaches 5 issues.

@madeinbangladesh: its not really that surprising, TV devlopment is a constantly turning wheel where you actually don't see the majority of it and with Hollywoods love for brand recognition comics are the new hot licensing property. Besides this is just Mark Millar's endgame.

The premise is easily strong enough that I can see TV execs jumping all over this. I personally thought the first issue was just OK. I liked it but in an already crowded pull list I'm not sure if it will make my long term cut. I'll be picking up issue 2 and then make my decision on whether or not it will be a regular book for me.