''Survivors' Club'' is a

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series created by writers

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and Dale Halvorsen, and artist Ryan Kelly, published by the

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imprint of

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, beginning in 2015. The series is set in a world where the archetypal characters from 1980s horror movies are real. The titular "Survivors' Club" is made up of those would-be victims who managed to escape. The series ran monthly for nine issues until 2016.

Publication history

The first issue of ''Survivors' Club'' was released by

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, an imprint of

, in October 2015. The series ran for nine issues until June 2016. The complete series was compiled as a

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, which was released in September 2016.

Characters

* Chenzira Moleko * Teo Reyes * Kiri Nomura * Simon Wickman * Alice Taylor-Newsome * Harvey Lisker

Canceled television adaptation

In November 2018, a television series based on ''Survivors' Club'' was in development at

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from

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. Jared Frieder and Len Goldstein were attached to the potential drama series as executive producers, with the former also set to write the

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script. The longline for the project read: The script was not picked up to pilot by The CW for the 2019–2020 television season and no further development updates have been announced.

References

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