While the Darren Aronofsky RoboCop reboot appears to be frozen in production limbo, Dynamite Entertainment are dusting off the character for a new RoboCop comic book series, the first issue of which will hit stands in January 2010.

The series, from writer Rob Williams and artist Fabiano Neves picks up immediately after the first film, in an attempt to capture the hard-hitting action and dark satire that made the original so memorable. In a press release from Dynamite, Williams says "We're coming in off the back of the first Verhoeven movie and pretty much ignoring everything else that's ever happened Robocop-wise. So, Dick Jones is gone. OCP are still there, albeit in a restructured form. Some unnamed time has passed since the end of the first movie, but that's our status quo pretty much. Old Detroit's overrun by crime, the country's following it down the tubes due to a 'super recession' and Murphy, Lewis and the rest of the ODPD are fighting a losing battle on the streets."

Dynamite President Nick Barrucci is particularly excited about Williams' new version of RoboCop's classic foil, "And the all-new all-dangerous ED-209 will undoubtedly be considered the true continuation of director Paul Verhoeven's vision of Robocop from the first movie."


Dynamite adds RoboCop to an already strong stable of popular licensed properties that includes Stargate, Red Sonja, Buck Rogers, Xena, Sherlock Holmes, The Lone Ranger, and Zorro. The character has made several bids at comic book fame with previous comics published by Marvel, Dark Horse, and Avatar Press, but the concept has never quite caught on with readers, who seem to prefer his exploits on the big screen. RoboCop's greatest comic book success was in Dark Horse's RoboCop Versus the Terminator, with a script by RoboCop 2 screenwriter Frank Miller and art by comic legend Walt Simonson. That four-issue crossover spawned a video game for the Sega Genesis and Super Nintendo that was named "Bloodiest Game of 1993" by Electronic Gaming Monthly.