The "Road Rage" series of four comics is in stores tomorrow, Wednesday February 15th.
Adapted from the short story "Throttle" by Stephen King and Joe Hill, which itself was inspired by "Duel", a short story by Richard Matheson, the comic series features The Tribe, a motorcycle club that acts as a family unit.
Club leader Vince rides alongside his son Race, as well as fellow Vietnam vet Lemmy and a passle of others. They've been together a long time, these two generations of riders. But never before have they seen the kind of trouble they're about to run up against.
War is easy—lines are drawn, sides are chosen. But when the club is attacked on a lonely highway road by a trucker with unknown but quite murderous intent, their hard-scrabble existence becomes one of pure survival. And not all of 'em are going to make it through.
If all this has a familiar ring to it, it's likely because you've seen the 1971 made-for-television movie Duel, which stars Dennis Weaver as a motorist being stalked by an unseen truck driver. With a screenplay adapted from the same Matheson short story that inspired King and Hill, it was Steven Spielberg's first turn as a director and remains one of the most suspenseful films we've ever seen. (We watched it once decades ago … and it is one of the few films that we are too terrified to watch again.)
The covers of the four comics are shown below. Look for them in your favorite comic book store tomorrow.
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