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"David Lapham has discussed his comic adaptation of Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan&amp;#039;s book The Strain. The Stray Bullets and Young Liars writer explained his eight-issue miniseries based on the novel about a virus which transforms its victims into vampires. The title was unveiled at San Diego Comic-Con following the release of a teaser earlier in July.  Lapham told Comic Book Resources: &amp;quot;For starters it&amp;#039;s a dark, horror, end of the world scenario mixed with stories of human survival and tragedy. Y&amp;#039;know, all the fun things in life. The only thing it lacks is the funny. Nothing funny here - just bodies. Unless you find bodies funny. Then, seek help. &amp;quot;The fact that it&amp;#039;s not one monster lurking [in] the night. That it&amp;#039;s working like a virus makes it global in scope. It also makes it far less likely you&amp;#039;re going to live. Any of you. And by you, I mean you and not me. I take that Airborne stuff. That&amp;#039;s gotta protect me, right?&amp;quot; Lapham also explained the challenges of adapting a novel into a comic book series. &amp;quot;Fitting everything [in]! Well, actually, you can&amp;#039;t,&amp;quot; he said. &amp;quot;A novel has the luxury of being as expansive as it wants. &amp;quot;The trick here is keeping the good stuff, the important stuff and the terrifying stuff and making sure you can bring that together in a way where you&amp;#039;re faithful to the book, but you&amp;#039;re actually creating something new. Something that&amp;#039;s its own work.&amp;quot; The Strain comic will debut in December. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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