51 Minds has acquired the rights to adapt the groundbreaking comic book series, Heavenly Blues, from Scout Comics & Entertainment.

Created and written by Ben Kahn with art by Bruno Hidalgo, Heavenly Blues is published monthly by Scout Comics, with issue #3 recently released.

Heavenly Blues is an Ocean’s Eleven-type story set in the afterlife, this stylish, commercial, and organically diverse crime-adventure story is centered on the greatest thieves in history – a witty team consisting of a 1920’s mobster, an Egyptian grave robber, a Salem witch, a 16th century Ninja, and an outlaw from the Old West – who team up to pull the ultimate heist for an Angel in heaven, in order to finally escape an eternity in hell.