| Limited: | Y |
| Genre: | Fantasy |
| Publisher: | Boom Studios |
| Date: | 2017—2018 |
| Issues: | 12 |
| Writers: | Annette Duffy (screenplay) David Odell (screenplay) Simon Spurrier |
| Artists: | Kelly and Nichole Matthews |
| Letterers: | Jim Campbell |
| Editors: | Sierra Hahn |
The Power of the Dark Crystal is a 2017 comic book limited series that is a sequel to 1982 film The Dark Crystal.[1] This series has a sequel, Beneath the Dark Crystal.
For decades, a sequel for the 1982 film The Dark Crystal had been planned as a motion picture, but ended up being adapted into a comic instead.[2] [3]
The unproduced screenplay was by David Odell, Annette Odell and Craig Pearce.[4]
It is set years after the events of the 1982 film where the Dark Crystal was healed and peace was restored on Thra. The world is faced with needing to reignite a dying sun at the center of the planet. The story of Power of the Dark Crystal follows the adventures of a young Fireling named Thurma, together with Kensho, a Gelfling outcast, that steal a shard of the Crystal of Truth in an attempt to reignite the dying sun.[5]
The comic received a mostly positive reception from critics.[6] [7] [8] [9]