The Golden Girls Turn Violent in Vicious New Battle Royale Comic
A new miniseries from Image Comics is giving the Battle Royale treatment to the concept of The Golden Girls, and fans will never view the beloved sitcom the same way again. The Golden Girls was a huge hit during its run in the 80s and early 90s. The ensemble sitcom starring beloved actresses like Beatrice Arthur and Betty White focused on a group of elderly women and the friendship that kept them together as they go through their golden years. The series still runs in syndication to this day and has been referenced countless times right down to its iconic theme song «Thank You for Being a Friend.»
About eight years after the final season of The Golden Girls came to an end, a film by Kinji Fukasaku called Battle Royale hit theaters and became a massive hit worldwide. The film was based on a novel by Koushun Takami and followed a group of high school students that are forced to fight each other to the death or else risk being killed by the collars strapped to their neck. The story's immense popularity led to many notable inspirations including a massive modern trend in video games called the Battle Royale, which has players fighting each other for survival as the map around them pushes them closer to each other. Now, these two unlikely worlds are about to collide in a landmark new comic by Image.
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In a post on their website, Image Comics revealed Golden Rage. Golden Rage is an upcoming comic miniseries by Image created by Chrissy Williams and Lauren Knight. The story follows a dystopian future in which elderly women that have reached a point where they're "deemed useless by society and abandoned on an island." Left with nothing more than their basic instincts to
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