In 2007 Wildstorm announced its plan to cancel its ongoing New Line horror comics in favor of publishing mini-series and specials based on the movie franchises. The ongoing "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" series would come to an end after a six-issue run. Replacing them two months later came "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: Cut!", a one-issue special written by Will Pfeifer and with art by Stefano Raffaele. This issue would take place thirty years after the first film, with a group of film-students seeking to document the Hewitts. One month later, a second special, "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: About a Boy", written by Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning and with art by Joel Gomez, would follow. This issue featured a back story on Thomas Hewitt as a child prior to the events of "The Beginning". A third one-shot titled "Hoyt, By Himself" reunited writers Abnett and Lanning with artist Wesley Craig and focused on Hoyt's past, in particular expanding on his time as a POW during the Korean War and perforce taking up cannibalism to survive.