IDW launches second 'True Blood' series

IDW Publishing has announced a second miniseries based on the True Blood franchise.

The follow-up to the recent series will be co-written by Marc Andreyko (Manhunter) and Michael McMillian - who plays the Fellowship of the Sun’s reverend Steve Newlin in the show.

"The plot kicks off when bottles of Tru Blood are contaminated with this mysterious ingredient that makes vampires go, basically, insane," McMillian told Entertainment Weekly. "They go crazy. They lose sense of all sort of moral centre, and they pretty much go feral and attack anything and everything in sight.

"What happens is they reach Bon Temps and the lips of a very beloved vampire character. Sookie and the rest of the characters are trying to figure out: who's behind the contamination? How can they save their friend? That’s sort of where the whole arc starts off."

McMillian said he was inspired by the idea of a big PR disaster such as the BP oil spill, and the lack of attention that has so far been given to the company who manufacture Tru Blood.

The new miniseries will launch on February 23. The first series will be collected in hardback on February 8.