Captain's Library & Theatre / CoronaVirus Comics I AM LEGEND: AWAKENINGS "Death as a Gift"

In the world of the movie I Am Legend (2007) you are either immune or not.

There are far fewer who are immune...

...now there is one less.

When the post-apocalyptic pandemic movie I Am Legend opened, this comic, which combined both new material and adaptations of several motion comics from the film's website was distributed to comic stores and movie theaters!

This melancholy story, by writer Dawn Thomas and artist Jason Chan, was either adapted from the motion comic, or the motion comic was based on it.

(I'm not certain which)

Death As A Gift (Motion Comic) from Sanity Jane on Vimeo.
You'll see the other stories...soon!

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I Am Legend/Omega Man

Which features both the recent Will Smith version and the 1970s Charlton Heston version!

(But not the 1960s Vincent Price adaptation.

That one, you can get here...)

Last Man on Earth

CoronaVirus Captain's Library I AM LEGEND: AWAKENINGS "Losing Voice: Ethan's Story"

When the post-apocalyptic pandemic movie I Am Legend opened in 2007...

...this comic, which combined both new material and adaptations of several motion comics from the film's website was distributed to comic stores and movie theaters!

Written by Steve Niles and illustrated by Bill Sienkiewicz, this was the first of four prequel stories set in the movie's universe.

Please Support Secret Sanctum of Captain Video!

Visit Amazon and Order...

I Am Legend/Omega Man

Which features both the recent Will Smith version and the 1970s Charlton Heston version!

(But not the 1960s Vincent Price adaptation.

That one, you can get here...)

Last Man on Earth

Richard Matheson (1926-2013)

If it wasn't for Richard Matheson...

...zombies would not be rampaging across movie and TV screens today!

His novel, I am Legend, and the first movie adaptation, The Last Man on Earth, were the inspiration for George Romero's Night of the Living Dead....

...which redefined "zombies" in pop culture.
In addition, Matheson was one of the three major contributors to the original Twilight Zone (along with creator Rod Serling and Charles Beaumont) with his most famous story, "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" filmed twice.
When the leads of the two versions met up in Third Rock from the Sun, they commented on their airline troubles...

Add to that a plethora of novels and short stories, most of which were adapted into tv episodes and movies, plus his own screenplay adaptations of other authors' works (including Edgar Allan Poe), and his own original scripts for shows like Star Trek...
 ...and you have an amazing, creative, talent who will be missed.