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Cover of Chopper #1
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| Publisher | Asylum Press |
| Schedule | Bi-monthly |
| Format | Miniseries |
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| Publication date | October 2011 – February 2012 |
| No. of issues | 3 |
| Creative team | |
| Created by | Martin Shapiro |
| Written by | Martin Shapiro |
| Artist(s) | Juan Ferreyra Cliff Richards |
| Colorist(s) | Chandran Ponnusamy |
Chopper is a horror comic book miniseries written by Martin Shapiro, illustrated by Juan Ferreyra (who was later replaced by Cliff Richards from issue #3 onward), and published by Asylum Press in 2011.[1][2]
The series is a modern-day reimagining of the Headless Horseman from Washington Irving's 1820 short story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" that takes place in Daytona Beach, Florida during Bike Week.
In the story, a police officer's rebellious teenage daughter takes a strange new ecstasy-like drug at a party that causes her to see ghosts – and one of them is a headless Hell's Angel on a motorcycle who collects the souls of sinners in the afterlife and he wants her tainted soul.
As part of an ambitious transmedia launch strategy, a prequel to the main Chopper storyline was produced as a web TV series[3] starring actors Tyler Mane (Halloween, X-Men) and Andrew Bryniarski (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Batman Returns).[citation needed]
A film adaptation of the comic book is in the works. The screenplay was written by Martin Shapiro.[4][5]
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Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" (1820)
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