Martin Kove launched the comic with his son Jesse.
The Big Picture Cobra Kai star Martin Kove, best known for portraying karate sensei John Kreese in the Karate Kid franchise, is taking the leap into comics. During New York Comic Con 2022, Kove, with the help of his son Jesse Kove, debuted his comic book series Prodigal Son, bringing readers the first of four issues. Since its initial debut, the Koves have been working towards a greater launch for the series via an ongoing Kickstarter campaign.
During an interview with Collider's Perri Nemiroff, the Koves revealed that they are working towards adapting Prodigal Son into a television series . Jesse shared that while the Kickstarter will primarily help garner support for the comic, he and Martin want to go even farther, using the fan base they establish to see where else they could take the story — including turning it into a show.
"But the next phase I think would be seeing what else it can turn into, like we were talking about a series, you know, the next phase of where 'Prodigal Son' will go. It's also like my dad's love letter to the western, and the west. It's something that obviously he loves and if we can do a series as well as the comic books, I think my dad could leave this planet knowing that he did that, that he did justice with this.
A 'Prodigal Son' Adaptation Is Already Generating Interest Prodigal Son isn't near any solid development stages as a show — in part because of the ongoing SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes — but Jesse said that "there's real interest in turning this into a series. We're not just blowing smoke here. There's some real interest.
Prodigal Son is a four-part comic book series that follows a 12-year-old boy who teams up with a ruthless outlaw to avenge his family after they were murdered in cold blood. Meanwhile, the outlaw has his own vendetta against the gang. As the pair trek across the desert to gain their revenge, the boy begins to wonder who's truly a threat: the gang or the outlaw. Martin and Handfield co-created the series that was also co-written and lettered by Clay Adams.
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