(you’ll have to open each in a new tab to read them, sorry :/)
Bill Wray did a comic book adaptation of Eight O’Clock in the Morning for the April 1996 issue of Alien Encounters (Eclipse Comics) that John Carpenter read and ended up liking enough to buy the rights to make They Live. The comic features monsters with vague intentions (it’s clear they exist, and that they run political offices/the media, but why?), rather than John Carpenter’s obvious Reaganites from Outer Space.
Interestingly, both the comic and the short story feature the protagonist’s name (Nada) prominently, while the movie only ever mentions it in the credits. Considering the slight significance of it (it being spanish for zero whatever whatever etc), it’s surprising John Carpenter didn’t do more with it.
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