“Walking Dead” To Become A Video Game?

in a recently issued press release, Telltale Games said that one of their five projects that will be released soon includes “one based on a just-launched property from the TV and comic book world whose popularity is changing life as some know it.” Hmm comic book based property and a very popular TV show? Could [...]

Analyzing the 2010 Comics Charts

Diamond Comic Distributors–the company from which virtually every comics specialty store in America buys the bulk of their stock–has released their charts for the bestselling comic books and graphic novels of 2010 (for copies sold through them, which is to say it doesn’t include many bookstore sales). They list the top 500 in each format; [...]

Origins: “Walking Dead” Director Frank Darabont on His Influences

AMC’s The Walking Dead will wrap up its first season this Sunday and in honor of the finale we have a little treat for you.

Walking Dead To Shamble Into Prose Next Year

The franchise-ing of Robert Kirkman’s The Walking Dead continues apace. Even before the (much-anticipated) television series debuts on AMC at the end of this month, it’s been revealed that the long-running comic will get its own series of prose spin-offs from a subsiduary of St. Martin’s Press. The three novels will be outlined by Kirkman [...]

Is Walking Dead About To Go Day And Date?

Here’s something potentially interesting: iFanboy has noticed that the most recent issue of Robert Kirkman’s The Walking Dead was released on the same day, at the same price point, in both digital and print versions. Not surprisingly, that leads to the question, is this a new ongoing thing, or a mistake?

Comics on Our Pull List 7/21/10

Some of us are leaving for San Diego today. There’s that thing out there. I guess. Have no fear I will man my post at the local comic shop here in Gotham. Here are a handful of comics that I will be picking up tomorrow (and one I might have to run out and get [...]

New Comics for 7/8/10

You know what I don’t need on my list of weekly comics? Toys. Oh, and statues. And while we’re at it I could do without magazines, posters and t-shirts. When I climb the hallowed stairs of Midtown every week I’m going there to get new releases. So that’s what I give you. Just the new [...]

Robert Kirkman, Giddy As Can Be: Your Big Walking Dead News

Few TV projects in development have us as excited as AMC’s adaptation of The Walking Dead. The network behind Mad Men and Breaking Bad knows a thing or two about damn good TV, and sticking by a show that you believe in. And now apparently they know a thing or two about casting zombie epics.

Zombie Apocalypse! On a Cable Box Near You!

Yet another zombie apocalypse day in Hollywood!