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
Capcom announced the upcoming release of Resident Evil 5: Gold Edition for XBox 360 and PS3. The gold edition contains the original game, all downloadable content, and two brand new episodes (Lost in Nightmares and Desperate Escape) to play. Already own Resident Evil 5? Don’t worry, the new content will also be available as a download. Resident Evil: Gold Edition will be released March 9th, 2010.
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 #256 January 2010, to ship in March 2010:
COMICS
APE ENTERTAINMENT
Celebrity Zombie Killers GN $12.95
BOOM!
28 Days Later #9 $3.99
28 Days Later Volume 1 HC $19.99 OFFERED AGAIN
28 Days Later Volume 2: Bend In The Road HC $19.99
DC/ WILDSTORM
Resident Evil #4 (0f 6) $3.99
DYNAMIC FORCES
Army of Darkness Trading Card Box (with bonus random signed card and hand drawn sketch card) $PI
DYNAMITE
Army of Darkness #27 $3.99
IDW
The Ghoul #3 $3.99
Zombies VS Robots Adventures #2 $3.99
IMAGE
The Walking Dead #71 $2.99
MARVEL
Deadpool: Merc Without A Mouth #9 $2.99
BOOKS
QUIRK BOOKS
Dawn of the Dreadfuls by Jane Austin & Steven Hockensmith $12.95
BERKLEY TRADE
The Zombie Combat Manual by Roger Ma $14.00
EOS
Z Is For Zombies by Adam-Troy Castro & Johnny Atomic $14.99
CLOTHING
GRAPHITI DESIGNS
Undead Jay & Silent Bob T-Shirt MED-XL $17.95 XXL $20.95
MISC.
Mona Zombie Black T-Shirt MED-XL $15.99 XXL $17.99
Zombieland Logo Black T-Shirt MED-XL $15.99 XXL $17.99
GAMES
FLYING FROG PRODUCTIONS
Last Night On Earth: Survival of the Fittest Expansion Set $24.95
Last Night On Earth: Zombies With Grave Weapons Miniature Set $24.95
STEVE JACKSON GAMES
Zombie Dice Game $13.13
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
Capcom released a promotional t-shirt for the upcoming Resident Evil: Darkside Chronicle that allows you transform into a zombie! How does that work? Well the face of a zombie is printed on the inside of the shirt, so if you flip the shirt over your head like this it looks like you’re a zombie! Pretty neat, although I see one one potential problem with it – how the heck do you see? This was a giveaway item at Comic-con this year, so unfortunately there doesn’t appear to be a way to purchase one.
There’s a lot of zombie movie news coming out of Hollywood this week so I’ve compiled these all into a small, bite size portions for your reading enjoyment…
Principal cast for a new zombie film, named Gatekeeper , was announced last week. The project has a few big names attached to, such as Judge Reinhold and Ron Perlman – wait, are those really big names? In the famously low budget genre of most zombie movies, I’d say that they count.
The filmmakers behind the I Spit on Your Rave are looking for participants in yet another “world’s largest zombie gathering” record. The gathering will be used in a scene for the movie, which is a mockumentary about the world’s largest post-zombie-apocalypse music festival (try saying that 5 times fast).
A release date has been set for Resident Evil: Afterlife of September 17th, 2010.
The World War Z movie adaption is apparently still happening with the recent addition of screenwriter Matthew Michael Carnahan to the project. It’s unclear whether he is just tweaking the script or doing a whole re-write, although author Max Brooks is optimistic, saying “He’s one of Hollywood’s hot A-list writers, so if they went after him and paid him a mountain of gold, it definitely shows their confidence in this project.” I concur, Mr. Brooks.
Don’t forget, you always check out news on the latest upcoming zombie movies on our Upcoming Movies page in the Zombie Movie Database.
ShockTillYouDrop.com is reporting that internal Sony memos point to a fourth installment of the Resident Evil series being released September 17th, 2010. The working title is Resident Evil: Afterlife. Although we don’t have much more info than that, it’s probably safe to say that Milla Jovovich will return to her role as Alice.
UPDATE: Jovovich all but confirmed this in a video taken by paparazzi.
It’s been quite a week for fans of zombie video games so I’ve decided to consolidate all this week’s news into one big roundup. Yee-haw!
Valve announced some new downloadable content for their mega-hit Left 4 Dead. Once the content is released this spring, you’ll be able to play both the Death Toll and and Dead Air campaigns in versus mode. Also, they’ll be introducing a new mode of play called “survival” in which you’ll be pelted with wave after wave of zombies and compete for the amount of time you can stay alive.
Speaking of Left 4 Dead, George sent us a link to these awesome Left 4 Dead valentines, suitable for printing and handing out to your loved ones.
Prototype, the superhero zombie fighting game we posted about last month, gets a release date for June according to a company memo.
Wii gamers who wanted to play the critically acclaimed Dead Space will finally have a chance – EA announced they are working on a Dead Space game for the Wii. It is unclear whether this is a direct port or some sort of spin-off of the series, but either way it’s definitely good news for Wii fans.
Capcom also announced this week that they are officially working on a Dead Rising 2. They even released a viral video last week to get people amped up about running through a zombie horde in an American Gladiators style hamster ball.
And finally, speculation has started around a fourth Resident Evil movie. The screenplay has been written, and FX team assembled; all they need is Milla Jovovich to sign on to play Alice again. Even though the movie franchise continues to diverge from the video games, I still find them quite enjoyable. Here’s hoping for at least one more movie!
You may have heard about the Best Buy in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, that’s planning a zombie infestation inside the store for the release of Resident Evil 5 on March 13. They’re going to fill the store with zombies, quarantining areas off and even featuring a haunted house. Hired actors will portray scientists and doctors, and some “big scare” will wrap the festivities up.
But they’ve decided to take it further, now enlisting the help of the U.S. Army and their M16’s. And reports have come in about real chainsaws and spraying blood.
Getting to this particular store would mean a 5- or 6-hour journey for me. But zombies, M16’s, chainsaws, and spraying blood . . . it may very well be worth it!
Capcom announced their release schedule for the coming months this week and we now have release dates for a few of the highly anticipated zombie games since November’s release of Left 4 Dead. Dead Rising: Chop ‘Till You Drop drops first for the Nintendo Wii on February 27th. Based on the best-selling XBox 360 game, the Wii version will feature motion sensing controls for realistic zombie-bashing action. Following a few weeks later perhaps rather fittingly on Friday, March 13th, Resident Evil 5 will be released simultaneously for the XBox 360 and Playstation 3.
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