Awesome! Viz Media is going to be releasing Q Hayashida’s dark as fuck manga series Dorohedoro, starting this month. While not primarily a zombie series, there is so much darkness and grit and monsters and zombies, that any fan of the genre should take a chance and check it out. Only $12.99 for 176 pages!
DC Comics imprint Vertigo launches their new zombie series I, Zombie, by Chris Roberson and Mike Allred, this May and issue one will only cost $1.00! I’m excited to see Allred’s crisp, clean style back doing horror comics and can not wait to read the first issue. You can sample I, Zombie by reading the seven page prequel from last year’s House of Mystery Halloween Annual online for free. Also, check out this interview with both creators from last summer on CBR.com to get some insight into their creation.
Every month we tell you about the latest zombie offerings from Diamond, which are all available at your local comic book store. So, here are the zombie-related selections from Diamond Previews #258 March 2010, to ship in May 2010:
COMICS
ALTERNA COMICS
Jesus Hates Zombies, Lincoln Hates Werewolves Volume 4 GN $6.99
ANTARCTIC PRESS
How To Draw (and Fight) Zombies Pocket Manga Volume 1 $12.99 OFFERED AGAIN
BOOM!
28 Days Later #11 $3.99
Tag Omnibus TP $24.99
DARK HORSE
The Goon: Fancy Pants Edition Volume 3- Goon Year $34.99
The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service Volume 11 $10.99
DC/ WILDSTORM
Resident Evil #5 $3.99
DC/ VERTIGO
I, Zombie #1 $1.oo
IDW
The Ghoul HC $14.99
We Will Bury You #3 $3.99
Zombies VS. Robots Adventure #4 $3.99
IMAGE
The Walking Dead #73 $2.99
MARVEL
Marvel’s Greatest Comics: Marvel Zombies #1 $1.00
Marvel Zombies 5 #3 (of 5) $3.99
CLOTHING
Zombieland: Sign Black T-Shirt Med-XL $15.99 XXL $17.99
Zombieland: We Stand United T-Shirt Med-XL $15.99 XXL $17.99
TOYS
The Night of the Living Dead: Ben 1/6 Scale Action Figure $PI
Simon Garth, The Zombie Statue $100.00
More information can be obtained at previewsworld.com
PI=Price Inquiry, please inquire at your local comic book store for the prices on items marked with this code
Check out this awesome comic by cartoonist/ musician Jacob Borshard. See a larger version here.
Another free comic preview, this time from friend of the ZRC/ comic book writer Gary Reed! Check out the preview of Deadworld: Slaughterhouse HC, from Desperado Publishing, once again over at comicmonsters.com.
Check out this preview of 28 Days Later #6, from Boom! Studios, over at comicmonsters.com.
You can now read a review of the pilot script for AMC’s The Walking Dead over at Corona Coming Attractions. But here’s your warning- if you want absolutely no spoilers, no matter how minute, read on cautiously.
Marvel Comics is really milking the shit out of this series, which has mixed it’s most popular and b-level characters with a raging world full of zombies and multi-company crossovers, once again. In April you will be able to read more about Machine Man and his continuing adventures with zombies in the five-part series Marvel Zombies 5 (aka MZ5). While the basis for this series sounds more interesting than Marvel Zombies 3 & 4, I hold my praise until reading it. Writer Fred Van Lente had this to say about the next story-arc and it’s multiverse zombie road trip vibe:
“…each issue of MARVEL ZOMBIES 5 features a variation on the zombie theme from throughout popular culture. From the slow-moving George Romero style to the crazed infected from “28 Days Later” to even the Deadites in “Evil Dead,” the writer equates the limited series to a “smorgasbord [or] salad bar for the zombie connoisseur.” But as variety is the spice of life, Van Lente decided to sweeten things up even more by also setting each issue against an assortment of backdrops.
“We’ve got zombies in the Old West, we’ve got zombies in Killraven’s War of the Worlds, we’ve got zombies in Camelot,” he exclaims. “I like the storytelling challenge of taking a straight-forward genre and twisting it into pretzels. It’s also fun to come up with new ways to eviscerate zombies.”
Read more about this “new” series here.
Just a quick note to let our readers know that Comic Book Resources posted their 30 Most Important Comics of the Decade, Part 1 today, with Robert Kirkman’s The Walking Dead coming in at #28. I think it should be higher in ranking (even based solely on it’s importance to comic storytelling or it’s importance in helping revitalize Image Comics), but I’ll wait until the second half of the list is released to finalize my opinion.
The Walking Dead Compendium Volume 1
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