The Halliwell Sisters To Get the Comic Book Treatment in June

The Halliwell sisters are coming to a comic book store near you!

Newsarama reports that Zenescope Entertainment has just secured the comic book and graphic novel publishing rights to the television series, which ran for eight years on The WB from 1998-2006.

Charmed was part of the original WB lineup that included Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Felicity, and Dawson's Creek. The show followed the lives of three sisters living in San Francisco who discover they are powerful witches. Charged with the responsibility of fighting evil, they try to balance their professional and personal lives with the supernatural. The original cast included Shannen Doherty, Alyssa Milano, and Holly Marie Combs. Doherty left the show after three seasons and Rose McGowan stepped in at the start of the fourth year.

The Zenescope press release states that a preview issue (referred to as issue #0) will be released in June and that the first issue of the series will debut at Comic Con International in July. No details yet on how many issues are planned for the run, but Zenescope did indicate that they intend for the story to pick up where the series left off.

I'm not 100% clear on the canon-ness of these comic books. Charmed novel author Paul Ruditis is attached to write the series, and he previously had to work with series creator Constance M. Burge on his stories. However, the canon-ness of those novels is still undetermined. Burge herself is not singled out in the release as having direct involvement in the series, but I am crossing my fingers that she will be involved somehow so that these can be considered part of the canon because, well, I loathe non-canon.

I am not ashamed to admit that I am pretty excited about this. Sure, Charmed was a super cheesy show, but it was also a wonderful female-driven supernatural series that really helped to shape what would become the golden years of The WB. I have always, always felt that the season seven finale would have been a better series finale than what transpired in the eighth and final season. I am pleased to no end that "Forever Charmed" will no longer be the last memory of the Halliwell sisters that fans are left with.