Romero's Empire Of The Dead (comic)

[capncnut]

New fifteen issue Marvel comic series set in Romero's 'Dead' universe, written by George himself, called Empire of the Dead will drop episodically in January. Click for article.

[MinionZombie]

Oh aye, I was reading about this a while back on Daily Dead - hopefully they'll release a trade paperback of this and I can dig into it. It'll be interesting to see what he does within this medium. "These zombies are starting to show sparks of real care and concern for each other," Romero said. "I'm not going to go all the way to Omega Man where they take over the world, but I'm having a lot of fun with it. We've got some new rules and new characters, and we're taking it in a completely different direction." I'm all at once intrigued, and a little bit worried ... the above could so easily just come off as silly, or unbelievable, or whatever, but at the same time it's good he's not just doing Dawn of the Dead v2.0 or something lazy. Is it just me, or does this festering zombie chap look a little bit like Michael Rooker?

[MoonSylver]

It's not just you. As for the aforementioned comic...sorry, but that sounds horrible.

[Mr.G]

It can't be worse than Toe Tags. I bought that series out of sheer obligation to GAR.

[zombieparanoia]

"These zombies are starting to show sparks of real care and concern for each other"???? God damn you Romero. You have to go full Lucas on the genre you basically invented don't you? This sounds like it could be worse than twilight.

[Neil]

^^ Hmmmm!

[Trencher]

Did he not already write a comic series where one woman were riding an elephant and killing zombies?

[MinionZombie]

Preview pages (no text): Thoughts?

[JohnoftheDead19]

Who can honestly tell how its going to be

[shootemindehead]

What's with the flippin vampire at the end?

[AcesandEights]

What's with the flippin vampire at the end? It's a metaphor for sucking the genre dry

[MagicMoonMonkey]

Oh I do hope these vampires sparkle in the sunshine... Vampires in Romero's dead universe... I think George has been pilfering ideas from the fiction section - namely the short story titled, Preservation of the Species. I was ok with what I was seeing in those panels, that was until the guy from The Crystal Maze turns up at the end. George has been making me a bit more sad for a while now.

[Neil]

Jump to 47m40s - http://www.jaydotdee.com/poptards/PopTards206.mp3 They seem fairly positive about it...

[MinionZombie]

More preview pages here: http://dailydead.com/preview-pages-g...empire-dead-2/ Bit of cover art here: http://dailydead.com/cover-art-georg...pire-dead-2-3/ And some more preview pages here (with text): http://dailydead.com/new-preview-pag...empire-dead-1/ Notice the dialogue reference to Dawn?

[wayzim]

Oh I do hope these vampires sparkle in the sunshine... Vampires in Romero's dead universe... I think George has been pilfering ideas from the fiction section - namely the short story titled, Preservation of the Species. I was ok with what I was seeing in those panels, that was until the guy from The Crystal Maze turns up at the end. George has been making me a bit more sad for a while now. There have been a few recent fan e-mails that commented on similarities between characters from my stories, and those in George's newer films. One kid thought it was funny that Big Daddy from Land was a pump jockey, the same as my zombie in Dead Fall: the novel ( who I splatted before he could get smart ). And I winced slightly as Cholo took out the garbage to a landfill that reminded us of the one in Tuesday Morning Pickup. And I did get fan mail for Preservation from a guy named George (GRMonLI@aol.com ), back in October of 2000, who stated that Zombies and Vampires were his two favorites and it was great to see them mixed. Still, fourteen years later, and what's going with Empire that made you think of Preservation? Details, Man! I need details!