Almost immediately after ABC announced the cancellation of Pushing Daisies in November 2008, creator Bryan Fuller began talking about resurrecting the quirky comedy as a comic book. Over the next two and a half years since, he's occasionally offered updates about the fate of the pie-maker who can bring things back to life, saying just last fall that the first issue "will hopefully be out in early 2011."

Well, it's early 2011, and there's no first issue. But Fuller has offered, or rather tweeted, the next-best thing: a preview of the first page. He doesn't indicate who the artist is, though.

There's also no word yet as to when we'll see the first issue, as Pushing Daisies had been destined for DC Comics' recently closed WildStorm imprint.

Fuller has described the comic as a 12-issue series that ties up loose ends left by the show's untimely demise as the characters deal with a flash flood that empties bodies from a nearby cemetery.

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(via The Atlantic)