Chuck Palahniuk of the film adaptation), and in 2005 (with an afterword by Palahniuk). Palahniuk was cajoled to continue "Fight Club" in comics form by fellow novelist Chelsea Cain and comic writers Brian Michael Bendis, Matt Fraction and Kelly Sue DeConnick. A teaser was released by Dark Horse Comics for Free Comic Book Day 2015, with "Fight Club 2" #1 following in late May of that year. The series explores Joseph Campbell's concept of the 'second father' as being vital to the hero's journey, which is something that has always fascinated Palahniuk. On the "Orbital In Conversation" podcast, Palahniuk stated that he
Haunted (Palahniuk novel) carrot," referring to both the mother in the first story and to the total denial of all the parents involved. Purportedly all three of these incidents are based on true stories. According to Palahniuk, the first two tales came from his friends' experiences and the third he heard while shadowing sexual addiction support groups as research for "Choke". In one of these groups, he met an extremely thin man. When Palahniuk asked him how he stayed so thin, he told him "I had a massive bowel resectioning." When Palahniuk asked what he meant, he told him the story which was