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New in comic stores this week from Image Comics is issue #109 of The Walking Dead.
"Maggie and Sophia pick up the pieces and continue their lives at the Hilltop."
Featuring a story by Robert Kirkman and art by Charlie Adlard and Cliff Rathburn.
Dark Horse Comics is hosting a Twitter chat this afternoon with the creative team behind the comic adaptation of Naught Dog's upcoming zombie video game The Last of Us.
"We'll be taking over the Dark Horse Twitter feed for one hour next Wednesday April 10th to chat with Naughty Dog's Video Game Last of Us and Comics Writer Neil Druckmann and Comics artist and writer Faith Erin Hicks.
Join us to ask your questions about the new series #TheLastofUsAD, the writing process, and what we can expect from the brilliant new series based on the Video Game going forward!
Not only will everyone get to ask questions of the two creators about the the brilliant and beautiful new series, but we are giving away 10 FREE Digital copies of Last of Us #1 to participants."
Follow @DarkHorseComics and use hashtag #TheLastofUsAD for the chat that begins today, Wednesday April 10th, at 2:30pm ET.
CONAN's Andy Richter gets zombified and tours Atlanta as a walker.
New this week from Screen Media Films is Infected, directed by Glenn Ciano and starring Michael Madsen, William Forsythe and Christy Romano.
"An annual relaxing outing in the countryside becomes anything but after a blood virus infects a group of hunters, turning them into blood-thirsty maniacs.
Now, the pack of survivors must thwart off the creatures in order to see daylight again. Starring William Forsythe (Boardwalk Empire) and Michael Madsen (Reservoir Dogs), Infected is a true, but wickedly twisted, tale of survival in the wilderness."
Infected is available now on DVD.
New this week from Entertainment One is 13 Eerie, directed by Lowell Dean and starring Katherine Isabelle, Michael Shanks, Brendan Fehr, Brendan Fletcher, Jesse Moss and Nick Moran
"Six forensic undergrads, vying for a trainee position with the FBI, embark on a scientific expedition to a remote island that was once used for illegal biological testing grounds for life-term prisoners. Now, the mutilated cadavers of these convicts have come back to life and are savagely hunting them down one by one."
13 Eerie is available now on DVD.
New this week from Image Comics - '68: Jungle Jim #1 - featuring a story by Mark Kidwell and art by Jeff Zornow and Jay Fotos.
"Vietnam, 1968: Behind enemy lines, Private Brian Curliss is alone. The enemy caged him, the dead want to devour him and the voices in his head are driving him to madness. A madness that emerges in the form of an unstoppable killing machine wrapped in burlap and bamboo...
Curliss is a one-man-army, sworn to wade through a wet red jungle gone straight to hell in search of a ghost named Jungle Jim. To the Viet Cong, he's a nightmare. To POWs trapped in enemy hands, he's salvation. To the legions of shambling, hungry dead...He's the Grim Reaper in a gas mask.
MeatGrinder Studios and Image Comics return to the grim world of '68 with an all-new, four-issue series continuing the story of Jungle Jim. The brutal sequel to the original one-shot, Jungle Jim #1 fleshes out the new dark star of the Vietnam/Zombie apocalypse. Scripted by Mark Kidwell with savage artwork by Jeff Zornow and Jay Fotos. Covers by Jeff Zornow, Nat Jones and Jay Fotos."
With Georgia overrun by walkers, The Walking Dead's Merle and Carol seek refuge in Conan O'Brien's studio. And, yes, there will be casualties.
When you're dead but still need to look your very best...
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The upcoming film adaptation of Max Brooks' World War Z scores the cover story for the latest issue of Entertainment Weekly.
The cast and crew of take us inside the making of "Welcome to the Tombs", last night's third-season finale of The Walking Dead.
"In the Season 3 finale, Rick discovers that the only way to survive the apocalypse is to be open to others."
Here's a sneak peek at "Welcome to the Tombs", tonight's third-season finale of The Walking Dead.
"Carl reminisces about life before the apocalypse in this sneak peek of Episode 316."
It's deja vu all over again, this time with a young woman filling in for Rick Grimes in the role of unlucky patient awaking in a walker filled world.
Here, in the premiere episode of "Cosplay: Piano" from Stan Lee's World of Heroes, Sonya Belousova takes on some zombies... and a keyboard.
From domestic bliss to the zombie apocalypse in 150 seconds in Paramount's new trailer for World War Z.
Word War Z opens in theaters on June 21, 2013.
... in the new Zombieland - The Series poster.
New this week from World Wide Multi Media is Zombie Genocide: Legion of the Damned.
"Chaos is rampant as a biochemical terrorist attack rages in several heavily populated cities in the US. The world will never be the same as the virus spreads quickly across the continent turning thousands of people into a horrific flesh-eating army of the dead. A group of strangers band together to defend their loved ones from being consumed by the rampaging, frenzied zombie apocalypse. A man stuck in a traffic jam narrowly escapes to warn others of what's heading their way; best friends fight to return home and save their families; a mother and son in hiding desperately seek to escape the horrors of what awaits outside; while a father tries to reunite with his wife and child. As each human stands to fight and survive, the army of the dead continues to multiply. Not for the squeamish, Zombie Genocide: Legion Of The Damned is full of zombie gore galore."
Zombie Genocide: Legion of the Damned is available on DVD now.
AMC's Zombie Apocalypse Marathon of every episode of The Walking Dead, from start-to-present, begins tonight at 8pm ET. With breaks during the day, this will run up through Sunday night's third season finale.
Check out the full schedule here - The Walking Dead Zombie Apocalypse Marathon.
World War Z just got a brand new teaser poster... and it's a wild one. Guess again if you think that a helicopter is going to be your ticket to escape the unstoppable horde of the living dead in World War Z's version of the zombie apocalypse.
World War Z, the adaptation of Max Brooks groundbreaking zombie apocalypse book, stars Brad Pitt, and will be released in the U.S. on June 21, 2013.
Here's a sneak peek at "This Sorrowful Life", tonight's new episode of The Walking Dead.
"Glenn and Daryl discuss Merle’s place in the group in this sneak peek of Episode 315."
New this week from BOOM! Studios - Fanboys vs. Zombies #12 - by writer Sam Humphries and artist Jerry Gaylord.
"What happens in Vegas, slays in Vegas... (Yup, THAT pun just happened.) The Wrecking Crew soldiers through the Strip in search of the mysterious government compound housing the contagion’s cure. But does Kurt have the group’s best interests at heart, or does he have more sinister motives?"
"Is it just me or does he actually have more personality now that he's dead?"
Downton Abbey with zombies, the way it should be...