'Fight Club' Sequel Confirmed... In Comic-Book Form

Apologies for having got your hopes up with the first half of that headline, but the fact remains that a sequel to 1999 cult sensation Fight Club has indeed been announced – it’s just that Fight Club 2 won’t be coming to the big screen, but rather via renowned indie publishing house Dark Horse Comics.

Dark Horse has since confirmed the revelation that came at the hands of American daily USA Today, explaining that the 10-issue maxiseries will be written by the original novel’s author, Chuck Palahniuk, with art by Eisner Award-winning illustrator Cameron Stewart (Catwoman, Batman And Robin, Seaguy, The Other Side).

The cover art for the series will come courtesy of famed Kabuki artist David Mack, with issue one hitting digital and physical stores on April 8, 2015.

As USA Today revealed, Fight Club 2 will be set in both the future and the past, picking up ten years following the original novel’s conclusion, and became something of an inevitability following Palahniuk’s appearance at New York Comic-Con last year.

“I messed up and said I was doing the sequel in front of 1,500 geeks with telephones,” Palahniuk told the paper. “Suddenly, there was this big scramble to honour my word.”

The protagonist is married to fellow former support-group shill Marla Singer, with whom he has conceived a now-nine-year-old son, Junior - and the narrator “is failing his son in the same way his dad failed him”.

Several characters from the first novel will make an appearance, as will infamous anarchist organisation Project Mayhem.

As far as the fate of Brad Pitt’s iconoclastic imaginary friend Tyler Durden (guys, the book came out almost 20 years ago) is concerned, Palahniuk would only say: “Tyler is something that maybe has been around for centuries and is not just this aberration that's popped into his mind.”

And ten years on, for the narrator and Palahniuk alike, as they’ve navigated their way beyond being the struggling young men they were in the late ‘90s to the apparently stable middle-aged professionals they’ve become, it seems that the Fight Club story – or at least, Tyler’s role therein – has become ever more relevant to the man who first created it.

“[When] you’ve made it to a certain extent … You’re still not really happy, but for different reasons,” he said.

“Also, the idea that if you suppress that wild, creative part of you — that Tyler part of you – do you lose the best part of you? Sure, your life is more stable and safe, but is it a better life?”