By Staff Reports AMC made a number of announcements related to “The Walking Dead,” in the past week, the highest-rated cable series in history and the #1 show on television for the last six seasons and counting. The series is being renewed for a ninth season, to premiere in late 2018; current showrunner Scott M. Gimple is being elevated to […]
By Staff Reports Madefire, the award-winning standard in digital comics and innovator of the proprietary Motion Book™ format teams up with Image Comics, the publisher of some of the top selling, award-winning comics in the industry, to make available a trove of back catalog titles to the Madefire platform.
Various Image Comics go walker for The Walking Dead with Anniversary Variants By Staff Reports Image Comics is pleased to announce black & white versions of the highly anticipated month of THE WALKING DEAD variants and reveal four more of the planned variant covers.
AMC Shows Trailer for New Season of The Walking Dead, and Possible Time Jump By Nolan P. Smith “I hope you got your shittin’ pants on.” AMC showed the world the latest trailer for season 8 of The Walking Dead at the San Diego Comic Con, which can be seen above. The most noteworthy part of the trailer, in my […]
Comic Con Brings Plenty to the Convention Center and Downtown San Diego By Nolan P. Smith (Victor Valley)—In Southern California, the summer means vacation, beach visits, and the return of the San Diego Comic Con. Pastrami Nation will once again be covering the show all week, bringing you a ton of photos and information throughout the week.
Rick Goes All Negan in Variant Walking Dead Cover, Complete with Lucille By Staff Reports Image Comics/Skybound Entertainment is pleased to reveal a very special limited variant cover for Robert Kirkman and Charlie Adlard’s THE WALKING DEAD #163.
Negan steps up to the plate tonight, who goes down for the count? By Nolan P. Smith We have impatiently waited for this day to come, and here it is. Who is the one that goes down swinging at the hands of the villainous Negan on tonight’s return of The Walking Dead? Is it going to be Glenn? Maggie? Daryl? […]
Vaughan and Martin’s The Walking Dead: The Alien takes the outbreak worldwide By Nolan P. Smith (Victor Valley)—Brian K. Vaughan and Marcos Martin created something amazing and innovative with The Private Eye, a series that was meant to be purely digital and on a “pay what you want” platform. When Image Comic’s Robert Kirkman wanted to collect The Private Eye […]
Negan Debut is Frightening Similar to Comic Book Counterpart By Nolan P. Smith When Negan made his debut on the hit AMC show The Walking Dead, he did so with impact. Jeffery Dean Morgan brought the most infamous villain from the The Walking Dead comics to the small screen, and left the internet buzzing. But how true to the comics […]
New Magazine from Image Comics to Accompany Diamond’s Previews Catalog By Staff Reports Image Comics and Diamond Comic Distributors are pleased to announce Image+, an all-new monthly magazine which will feature Image’s upcoming releases, as well as bonus creator-owned comics content. Each issue will be distributed with Diamond’s PREVIEWS Catalog each month, with the first issue of Image+ available in […]
By Nolan P. Smith (Victor Valley)—With the return for the second half of season 6, The Walking Dead packed plenty of punches, gore and surprises. More importantly, it was a highly enjoyable return for the show that shakes up the status quo. Spoilers below, you are warned. When we last left Daryl, Abraham and Sasha, they were surrounded by heavily […]
By Daniel Schwartz Contributing Guest Reporter (Victor Valley)– Did that just happen!? There are several shows that are defined by the most shocking and abrupt moments that change the direction of the narrative and leave the series changed afterwards. 2015 had no shortage of these moments. From Central City to the Seven Kingdoms, shock and awe filled the screens of […]
By Staff Reports Image Comics/Skybound is pleased to announce an exciting opportunity for any comics retailer who orders at least zero copies of THE WALKING DEAD #150. Participating retailers who meet the minimum of zilch orders will receive one free variant featuring art by series artist, Charlie Adlard. This very special Retailer Appreciation variant will be a black and white […]
By Staff Reports To commemorate the 150th issue of THE WALKING DEAD, Image/Skybound has enlisted the talents of veteran artists Jason Latour (SOUTHERN BASTARDS), Tony Moore (THE WALKING DEAD) and Ryan Ottley (INVINCIBLE) for three special variant covers in addition to the previously revealed Charlie Adlard cover and blank sketch variant. Additional credits for THE WALKING DEAD #150 include Stefano […]
By Nolan P. Smith (Victor Valley)– This episode, being the one right before the mid-season finale next week, had the hopes of viewers everywhere as high as possible. With show mainstay Glenn still missing for a few episodes now, many feared the worst and awaited some sort of official word. With two episodes already being aired that made no mention […]
Review by Nolan P. Smith For the second episode of the new season of AMC’s The Walking Dead, we needed something big to happen. With a very slow season of “Fear the Walking Dead” and last week’s somewhat uneventful season premiere, we needed the pace to pick up and for the fear of this apocalyptic world to return. Well, you […]
Review by Nolan P Smith (Victor Valley)– We are two episodes away from the season finale of “Fear the Walking Dead”, so of course, with this being the second to the last episode, I had high hopes for “Cobalt”. Well, you should never aim high. I am not saying this was a terrible episode, because it wasn’t. It just didn’t […]
Review by Nolan P. Smith Last week, I reviewed the pilot episode for AMC’s Fear the Walking Dead, the spin off series from the mega hit, The Walking Dead. Sadly, the first episode was slow and somewhat boring for me, so I was looking forward to a more eventful second episode, which is titled So Close, Yet So Far. That’s […]
By Nolan P. Smith Fans of AMC’s The Walking Dead have been waiting for months to see what the spin off, Fear the Walking Dead, has in store. Will it coincide with the events of the original series? Will it have likable characters like its predecessor, and retain the same quality we come to expect? If this pilot is any […]
Review by Nolan P. Smith (Victor Valley)—Zombies have been all the rage for the past few years. Whether from the ultra popular TV show and comic book, The Walking Dead, or video games like Dead Rising and Dead Island, zombies have been the go to menace. But with so many products and projects cashing in on the craze, when does […]
By Staff Reports Image Comics is pleased to announce that a limited number of exclusive releases will be available to purchase over the course of San Diego Comic-Con, Wednesday, July 23 – Sunday, July 27, with many of the creators on-hand for signings throughout the convention. Stay tuned for the detailed Image Comics signing schedule. Image Comics and Skybound releases […]
By Staff Reports Skybound, Robert Kirkman’s imprint at Image Comics, will rollout out its one-of-a-kind immersive zombie obstacle course experience, The Walking Dead Escape, in a national tour launching in Baton Rouge, LA on April 24, 2014 at The River Center Arena. The tour’s first leg will visit multiple cities including the following dates below: Baton Rouge, LA – April […]
By Staff Reports The Walking Dead Escape tickets for Petco Park in San Diego are now on sale! This event takes place right across the street from San Diego Comic-Con International on July 25th and 26th. Run, jump, crawl, and dodge the dead to see if you can survive the apocalypse! Or become one of the undead and stalk the […]
By Nolan P. Smith The rap battle you never wanted to see is pretty amazing! I don’t know how I missed this one: check out the epic rap battle between The Walking Dead’s Rick Grimes and Breaking Bad’s Walter White. Extremely well done, I couldn’t help but laugh!!! Created by Peter Shukoff (aka Nice Peter) and Lloyd Ahlquist (aka EpicLLOYD), […]
By Nolan P. Smith Pastrami Nation (California)– AMC revealed the poster for the 2014 return of The Walking Dead today. The poster features Rick Grimes and his son Carl, as well as the line Rick told his son at the end of the mid season finale: Don’t Look Back. The Walking Dead returns with all-new episodes Sun., Feb. 9 at […]
This October is the 10th anniversary of THE WALKING DEAD, and we’re excited to announce that issue #115 will have 10 connecting covers in celebration. The covers, when viewed together, form an image that highlights significant moments from the past 10 years of the series. Each of the 10 individual covers will also depict a special moment from a year of THE […]
Ready for more? Saturday brought about some amazing costumes and people at the San Diego Comic Con: from Poison Ivy, looking lovely as ever, a female Bane, DeadPool-Maus, to the Doctor and his TARDIS! The Doctor was spot on, and the young lady TARDIS lit up and even had the “insides” of the TARDIS! Plus, a not so Little Mermaid […]
By Staff Reports (Beverly Hills)– It has become a cultural phenomenon. The fans embrace it, the critics adore it. And now the stakes have never been higher for the survivors…On August 27th, Anchor Bay Entertainment unleashes AMC’s original series THE WALKING DEAD: THE COMPLETE THIRD SEASON on Blu-ray™ and DVD. Available as a 5-disc set in each format, the release […]
By Staff Reports (California)– Its collections are the country’s best-selling graphic novels, it has been adapted into the top-rated television series in basic cable history, its 100th issue sold more copies than any other comic book in the 21st century, and now THE WALKING DEAD is breaking new ground by becoming Image Comics’ and Skybound’s first Spanish-language publication. A Spanish […]
“Yeah, and people in hell want Slurpees…” Daryl Dixon is hands down the breakout star of AMC’s The Walking Dead, and thanks to the blank cover for The Walking Dead #109, Daryl comes to the comics. Kinda. Pastrami Nation Co-Founder Jason T. Smith created this sketch cover feature everyone’s favorite redneck. It’s up on eBay, right now, at http://www.ebay.com/itm/290912898322?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649.