New this week from BOOM! Studios - Fanboys vs. Zombies #9 - by writer Sam Humphries and artists Jerry Gaylord.
"BRAND-NEW ARC! PERFECT JUMPING-ON POINT FOR NEW READERS! Last month, the new-and-improved Wrecking Crew wrecked shop, eliminating the zombie threat in San Diego and salvaging what they could of the mecca of geek culture. But what happens when they’re faced with the Ghosts of Comic-Cons Past? Rising star writer Shane Houghton (REED GUNTHER) joins Team FvZ as the fanboy-favorite series enters a new era!"
In stores today, Image Comics puts out a throwback reprint of the premiere issue of The Walking Dead for the low, low price of $1 as part of their Image Firsts series.
"Available again as an Image First edition for only $1! Rick Grimes, Sheriff of a small town in Kentucky awakes in a hospitall. Comatose after being shot while on duty, Rick finds the world abandoned of all things living and is faced with walking undead, who attack him on sight. He returns home to find his family, son Carl and wife Lori, gone. He meets his new neighbor, who points him towards Atlanta. After retrieving supplies from the abandoned Police Station, Rick sets off to Atlanta to search for his family."
The Walking Dead #1 features a story by Robert Kirkman and art by Tony Moore.
The Walking Dead has just been named one of the American Film Institute's Television Programs of the Year.
"Each year, AFI Awards – favored by artists and entertainment executives for its intimacy and collaborative recognition – honors excellence in the moving image arts within the context of a Year in Review. One of AFI's national mandates is the creation of an annual almanac that records and preserves the evolution of the moving image arts in the 21st century. AFI Awards records each year's most outstanding achievements in film and television."
The other shows honored as Television Programs of the Year are American Horror Story, Breaking Bad, Game Change, Game of Thrones, Girls, Homeland, Louie, Mad Men and Modern Family.
New on home video today is Gangsters Guns and Zombies, directed by Matt Mitchell and starring Vincent Jerome, Huggy Leaver, Frabrizio Santino, Charlie Rawes and Cassandra Orhan.
"In post-zombie England, a botched robbery leads a motley crew of thieves into an apocalyptic battle with a zombie horde. "Q" had a nice, simple plan: drive the robbery getaway van, deliver everyone to the safe house and get paid. Unfortunately, life is never that simple."
Gangsters Guns and Zombies is available on DVD now.
Great news today for fans of The Walking Dead who use Verizon for their cable service as the two parties have reached a deal to keep AMC programming on the air!
The Walking Dead scored big at last night's Spike Video Game Awards, as The Walking Dead: The Game earned home five awards including the top honor of Game of the Year.
Game of the Year
Best Adapted Video Game
Best Downloadable Game
Best Performance by a Human Female - Melissa Hutchison
The National Post has put together a graphic, The Stopped Dead, illustrating the the complete, chronological list of all 347 of the on screen zombies kills in The Walking Dead.
"While AMC lets The Walking Dead gang take a short mid-season break – the Post’s Andrew Barr and Richard Johnson look at a few of the key statistics of two-and-a-half season’s worth of undead mayhem. They find noteworthy – the gradual increase in the body count, the increasingly creative means of Zombie dispatch, and the fact that every character seems to have developed a clear enjoyment for putting the ambulatory cadavers down for good."
Check out the full picture of The Stopped Dead on NationalPost.com.
The Walking Dead continues to not only survive but actually thrive in the brutal, savage, cannibalistic world that is the TV ratings business with a historic first in television history.
"The zombie smash has become the first cable series to win the fall TV ratings in the key demographic of adults ages 18 to 49, according to Nielsen."
The Walking Dead's midseason finale on Sunday night was watched live by 10.5 million viewers. An additional 4.7 million caught encores of the show and another 3.4 million viewers are expected to watch it via their DVR.
Congratulations to AMC and the cast, crew and makers of The Walking Dead.
The cast and crew of The Walking Dead look back at the first half of season three and look ahead to what lies in store for them... and us... in the second half.
*** Contains spoilers for the midseason finale so wait to watch this until you've completely caught up with Episode 308, "Made To Suffer" ***
New in print today is Zombies Invasion Britain, a do-it-yourself Amazon CreateSpace novella from Antony Stephens that clocks in at a brief 84 pages.
"It is the year 2250 and Stephen Williams finds himself in a Great Britain overrun by zombies and whose green belt land has all been concreted over. He is devoid of nearly all hope until he meets a nine-year-old girl called Julie Mayberry and together they try to survive in a land where their fellow humans are all but extinct. It is a struggle to the death against the zombies whose relentless pursuit of Stephen and Julie leads them both to learn of the final hypocrisy that lies beneath the betrayal of their country."
"From the makers of Coraline comes the story of Norman, a boy who must use his special powers to save his town from a centuries-old curse. In addition to spooky zombies, he'll also have to take on unpredictable ghosts, wily witches and, worst, of all, clueless grown-ups. But this young ghoul whisperer will soon find his paranormal activities pushed to their otherworldly limits. Featuring the voice talents of Kodi Smit-McPhee, Anna Kendrick, Casey Affleck, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Leslie Mann, Jeff Garlin and John Goodman, it's a frightfully funny tale for the whole family."
Director Guy Ritchie takes us behind the scenes for the making of the "Suprise" trailer for Activision's Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 featuring Robert Downey Jr., iJustine, FPS Russia, "Back in Black" from AC/DC and... of course... zombies!
New this week from BOOM! Studios - Fanboys vs. Zombies #9 - by writer Sam Humphries and artists Jerry Gaylord.
