Though I'm likely to get flack at home, this announcement from Terminal Press made me laugh and shake my head so much it had to be run.

Sometimes a project looks so wrong it has to be right. When you take a classic adult film property -- and whether some like it or not, there are a few such titles and this qualifies -- you have to wonder how to update it and speak to today's audience. In particular, Debbie Does Dallas has had numerous sequels, a couple of which may have had plots, a stage musical adaptation and at least one previous comic book series. So how do you make it fresh?

Zombies. Zombies make everything fresh.

And if any of you jerks steal my Pirates vs. Zombies vs. Ninjas vs. Monkeys idea, I'm suing.

Anyway, back to commentary: Ric Remender is mining similar territory with Xxxombies, but this has name recognition. This even has at least good cover art. While pornography and flesh-eating undead don't particularly float my boat, you might be the guy at home thinking "Debbie Does Dallas needed to be post-apocalyptic." You know who you are, Jordan Rosa.

The only thing really missing here is preview art beyond the cover. Maybe that will be forthcoming, and maybe it will be suitable to run here. We'll keep you posted. In the meantime, imagine what they'll do with titles like Deep Throat ("This zombie wants to swallow it all"), Candy Stripers (an alien race invades Earth in search of sugar and ...sugar...) and Tell Them Johnny Wadd Was Here (John Holmes comes back as a zombie...okay, I'm really out of ideas...)

Click on the cover image above for a much larger version.

In the book, Debbie finds herself stranded and under the threat of nuclear decimation in the days leading up to the apocalypse. As one of very few survivors left, she will battle her way through hordes of the living dead, aided only by an abandoned military exoskeleton and the will to make it out of Dallas, Texas alive.

“The creative team was given the opportunity to actually get creative with this title, which isn’t the norm when you’re working on a license” says writer and Terminal Press founder Brian Ferrara. “They just let us go crazy and I think that paid off. It’s not what people are going to be expecting”

“When I started talking to Terminal Press about licensing our Icons for comic books we agreed to do something completely different and insane. After reading the script and seeing the artwork this book is totally amazing! The only hang up is if we were to ever shoot this project we are looking at over a $100 million dollar budget. However, the coolest thing about comic books is that you can draw anything you could ever imagine.” said Arrow's Marketing Director Robert Interlandi.

“Debbie Does Dallas” is illustrated by Russ Manning nominee Rolo Ledesma, written by Brian Ferrara, with Colors by Narek Gevorgian and Color Separation by Joe Frazzetta and Keith McCleary.

This will be the first of Terminal Press’s collaborations with Arrow Productions. Future titles will feature reinterpretations of classics like “Deep Throat,” “Candy Stripers,” “Tell Them Johnny Wadd Was Here” and several others.

To order or buy the limited edition comic visit the Arrow Productions booth at the 2008 Adult Entertainment Expo or terminalpress.com this January.

Derek McCaw