--- description: 20 years after the publication of Fight Club, author Chuck Palahniuk announced that he is releasing a 10-issue comic book sequel in 2015. title: Fight Club 2 Announced by Chuck Palahniuk image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt82cb74106ba8f90f/69869c96361760ebc490d22f/poster.jpg?branch=production&width=1920&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Books](/tag/books/) ## Books Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Chuck Palahniuk Breaks First Rule of _Fight Club_ by Announcing Comic Book Sequel by [Laura Stampler](/author/laura-stampler/) ## Laura Stampler Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jul 22, 2014 11:44 AM CUT  Fight Club by [Laura Stampler](/author/laura-stampler/) ## Laura Stampler Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jul 22, 2014 11:44 AM CUT Almost 20 years after the publication of his novel _Fight Club_, author [Chuck Palahniuk announced](http://chuckpalahniuk.net/news/dark-horse-comics-to-publish-10-issue-series-of-fight-club-2 "undefined") Monday that he is releasing a 10-issue comic book sequel in 2015. Word of _Fight Club 2_ spread when Palahniuk broke the epic first rule of Fight Club—that you don’t talk about Fight Club, per the 1996 novel and its 1999 movie adaptation—at New York’s Comic-Con last year. “I messed up and said I was doing the sequel in front of 1,500 geeks with telephones,” [Palahniuk told _USA Today_.](http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/movies/2014/07/21/chuck-palahniuk-fight-club-comic-book-exclusive/12735275 "undefined") “Suddenly, there was this big scramble to honor my word.” Jokes about the broken golden rule have been running rampant on social media since Palahniuk made the first graphic novel’s April 8 release known: > [](https://twitter.com/TelegraphFilm/status/491489574372507648) > [](https://twitter.com/crossley%5Fbrian/status/491510991038193664) > [](https://twitter.com/craiguito/status/491343069623894016) The series will be produced by Dark Horse Comics, and illustrated by Cameron Stewart. According to _USA Today_: --- > “” --- Most of the original characters will be brought back, the newspaper reports. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3017968/fight-club-2-chuck-palahniuk/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3017968/fight-club-2-chuck-palahniuk/"},"headline":"Chuck Palahniuk Breaks First Rule of Fight Club by Announcing Comic Book Sequel","datePublished":"2014-07-22T11:44:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T09:16:23.949Z","description":"Will pick up a decade after the original left off","url":"https://time.com/3017968/fight-club-2-chuck-palahniuk/","keywords":["Books"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt82cb74106ba8f90f/69869c96361760ebc490d22f/poster.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Laura Stampler","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt82cb74106ba8f90f/69869c96361760ebc490d22f/poster.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Fight Club","caption":"","creditText":"Fight Club","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/books/","name":"Books"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3017968/fight-club-2-chuck-palahniuk/","name":"Chuck Palahniuk Breaks First Rule of Fight Club by Announcing Comic Book Sequel"}}]}] ```