The World’s Most Beloved Detective Series Officially Announces New Release
Murdoch Mysteries, the long-running Canadian period detective drama, is getting a comic book spin-off, announced at its New York Comic Con panel. The move takes the series back to print after it began as novels by Maureen Jennings, and could let its Victorian-era detective face larger adventures than the television budget allows.
Writer Ryan North, a Toronto-based comics writer, will lead the project. The first image shows detective William Murdoch confronting a criminal on a speeding biplane over the Canadian wilderness; the publisher, other creators and release date have not yet been announced. The television series premiered in 2008 and has released 330 episodes, with its 20th season now under way.
- Murdoch Mysteries is getting a comic book spin-off.
- Ryan North will write the series.
- The publisher and release date are still unknown.
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Murdoch Mysteries is a Canadian crime drama set in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It follows William Murdoch, a Toronto detective who investigates crimes using methods and technologies that were new at the time.
The television series began in 2008 and is based on Maureen Jennings’s novels. Its long run has made Murdoch and his world familiar to many viewers, while the original books connect the story to print.
A comic book can tell stories in a different format, with drawn action and scope that may be difficult to create for television. Ryan North, a Toronto-based comics writer, is leading the project.