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PORTLAND, Ore. 05/01/2025 — Earlier today IGN exclusively revealed the long-awaited, highly-anticipated first official trailer for the upcoming Revival TV show set to premiere Thursday, June 12 at 10 p.m. on SYFY with episodes available on Peacock a week after they air.
This paranormal noir show stars fan-favorite Wynonna Earp actress, Melanie Scrofano, alongside Romy Weltman, David James Elliott, and Andy McQueen. It will bring to life (revive?) Tim Seeley and Mike Norton’s New York Times bestselling graphic novel series of the same name.
This Wisconsin-set ‘farm noir’ story puts a twist on the zombie genre that makes it the perfect read for fans of horror obsessions like Twin Peaks, The Walking Dead, and The Last of Us, but with a grounded procedural mystery through-line similar to Mare of Easttown and Broadchurch.
Revival first launched at Image in 2012 and took the industry by storm with multiple sell-outs and reprints, a bevy of award nominations, and critical accolades that shot the title to the top of the sales charts. The Revival series has since sold over 1 million copies across all formats and continues to be one of Image’s most popular reordered backlist titles today. It has been translated and published internationally in France, Spain, Italy, Germany, Poland, and Mexico.
In Revival, for one day in rural central Wisconsin, the dead came back to life. Now, it’s up to Officer Dana Cypress to deal with the media scrutiny, religious zealots, and government quarantine that has come with them. In a town where the living have to learn to deal with those who are supposed to be dead, Officer Cypress is unexpectedly thrown into the center of a brutal murder mystery of her own… and left to make sense of the chaos amidst a town gripped by fear and confusion. Everyone, alive or undead, is a suspect.
Revival Compendium trade paperback (ISBN: 9781534389168) is available at local comic book shops, independent bookstores, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books-a-Million, and Indigo.
Revival is also available in trade paperback and hardcover editions:
- Vol. 1 trade paperback – ISBN: 9781607066590
- Vol. 2 trade paperback – ISBN: 9781607067542
- Vol. 3 trade paperback – ISBN: 9781607068600
- Vol. 4 trade paperback – ISBN: 9781632150127
- Vol. 5 trade paperback – ISBN: 9781632153791
- Vol. 6 trade paperback – ISBN: 9781632154729
- Vol. 7 trade paperback – ISBN: 9781632159014
- Vol. 8 trade paperback – ISBN: 9781534300569
- Vol. 1 Deluxe Collection hardcover – ISBN: 9781607068143
- Vol. 2 Deluxe Collection hardcover – ISBN: 9781632151025
- Vol. 3 Deluxe Collection hardcover – ISBN: 9781632155405
- Vol. 4 Deluxe Collection hardcover – ISBN: 9781534300422
The digital editions can be found across many platforms, including Amazon Kindle, Apple Books, and Google Play.
Select praise for Revival:
“A chilling ‘rural noir’—a supernatural saga grounded in the economic and familial realities of small-town life. Norton’s art is wonderfully specific and evocative of the rural Midwest—and often shockingly gruesome.” —Slate Book Review
“Seeley (Witchblade, Bloodstrike) and Norton (Battlepug) craft moods and story themes equally inspired by Elmore Leonard prose and Coen brothers small-town crime flicks.” —USA Today
“At first read of the book’s description, you may think Revival is yet another zombie comic… but writer Tim Seeley has a different take on the dead coming back to life… Seeley refers to Revival as ‘rural noir,’ which perhaps gives you a hint that he’s looking to tell a story that’s less about horror film plot devices and more about the characters and the complicated choices they make. The cold, Midwestern setting also brings to mind the Coen Brothers’ modern crime noir Fargo.” —Mental Floss
“Revival’s brilliance lies in how it focuses just as much on the emotional drama surrounding the revivals as in the effective horror set pieces it creates. Like the best TV, the world only becomes more defined and the story richer with each new installment.” —Paste