As fans of science fiction and horror television may know, one of the big summer hits on the SYFY channel is the new series “Revival.” Set in the Wisconsin town of Wausau, “Revival” is about people coming back from the dead, not as the usual zombies but “revived,” looking and acting just as they once had.
The show is based on an Image Comics series of the same name, written and illustrated by Tim Seeley, a 1999 illustration graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire.
“I set the story in the place I grew up,” says the Wausau native. “The town is trying to figure out what has happened with these 40 people who have come back from the dead. The main character is a cop who is trying to solve the murder of her sister, when suddenly her sister is ‘alive’ again. It’s horror, murder mystery, and a bit of dark comedy.”
Seeley says the first talk of creating something from his comic series began in 2018, and it then took seven years to launch the series.
“I think the show is landing well with people who like dark, weird stuff — people like me,” he says.
