This is NOT an adaptation of the film but the first in a two-issue series that follows the exploits of Mathayus a young warrior destined to rule one of the mightiest empires on Earth. Destiny will call him the Scorpion King. To save his kingdom from an evil tyrant Mathayus must recover a mystical book from the cave of an unspeakably horrific monster. This book holds the power to prophesize the future and with it the power to rule the world!