Sensible Erection | First images and video of AMC's new series based on the The Walking Dead.

Thursday, 3 June 2010

First images and video of AMC's new series based on the The Walking Dead.

quote [ Set to debut in October alongside AMC's annual "Fearfest" event, the series follows a police officer who leads his family and a group of survivors across the country in search of a safe home as zombie hordes dismantle society. ]

Vid is the director (Frank Darabont) having a nerdgasm. More Walking Dead stuff in extended.

Unrelated video editorial by Kirkman about the comic book industry: http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=17705

Some awesome cover artwork by Tony Moore: http://www.tonymooreillustration.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=386

Slightly more pictures: http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/TheDogPound/news/?a=18737

[by Fishwrinkle@10:02pmGMT] [+10 Informative]

Comments

afrasr said @ 10:22pm GMT on 3rd Jun
Noooooooo !

AMC doing it ? God damn they are going to fuck it up..

sunjing said @ 10:35pm GMT on 3rd Jun [Score:3 Insightful]
they don't seem to be doing that bad with Breaking Bad

pelon said @ 9:33pm GMT on 4th Jun
And Mad Men is the shit. Any fucking up will be done by the makers.

MelloHippo said @ 11:17pm GMT on 3rd Jun [Score:2 Insightful]
AMC doing it is the only thing that gives me hope. Mad Men and Breaking Bad are both very well written shows. I had liked Mad Men more for the dialog, but I think Breaking Bad has surpassed it with this season.

Here's hoping they keep the streak alive with their 3rd original.

uxbboy said @ 3:30pm GMT on 4th Jun [Score:1 Underrated]
Darabont is a badass. It should be ok.

Isosceles Lock™ said @ 10:32pm GMT on 3rd Jun
I'm so behind on the comics, I hope the show doesn't catch up before me :(

CapnSilver said @ 10:51pm GMT on 3rd Jun
This comic is probably THE BEST depiction of a zombie story ever.
Ever.

GordonGuano said @ 11:02pm GMT on 3rd Jun
No love for Vincent Locke's Deadworld?

*sniff*

f00m@nB@r said @ 11:39pm GMT on 3rd Jun

swiggy said @ 11:59pm GMT on 3rd Jun
Anyone else getting a little tired of zombies? We're about due for another implausible doomsday scenario to obsess over, aren't we?

I nominate gray goo. THERE'S a hopeless, "only a matter of time before you're comsumed slowly and painfully, hide out in a building with a rag-tag bunch of survivors and do your best to futilely prevent your inevitable doom" scenario I can get behind.

Silent said @ 12:19am GMT on 4th Jun [Score:1 Underrated]
Tired of Zombies? Not at all, always been a fan of the genre.
It does irk me that they're in vogue somewhat, but if it leads to me getting some decent quality zombie material I won't complain too much.

cb361 said @ 1:43am GMT on 4th Jun
You were into eating people's brains before it got popular?

Silent said @ 8:33am GMT on 4th Jun
Braaaains...

jhvh1 said @ 12:25am GMT on 4th Jun
How about gray goo AND Zombies?

swiggy said @ 12:43am GMT on 4th Jun
nanite infested walking corpses...interesting.

foobar said @ 3:34am GMT on 4th Jun
That's always seemed a more plausible explanation than viruses to me.

balzac said @ 5:49am GMT on 4th Jun
Sounds like the final season of LOST.

But then I guess the smoke monster turned out to not be nanites.

strangeffect said @ 2:40am GMT on 4th Jun
As a wise man once said, zombies are popular because they're just people that it's ok to kill en masse.

The same cannot be said of grey goo, though it has its own merits.

balzac said @ 5:55am GMT on 4th Jun
Yeah. I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but a grey goo movie would have the exact same tired characters in it that you see in every zombie movie, but the action scenes would be boring as hell.

Also, more expensive.

feeling constipated said @ 4:03am GMT on 4th Jun
I'm actually more fed up with vampires these days, except for the upcoming third season of True blood, so zombies is a welcome break.

balzac said @ 6:09am GMT on 4th Jun
We get a lot of zombie media, but no notable TV experiences. There was the big brothery miniseries, but the advantage of TV is that it allows for long running storylines while being more accessible than comics.

the circus said @ 4:27am GMT on 4th Jun
How about green goo (aka plants)?

nik said @ 11:01am GMT on 4th Jun
Anyone else getting a little tired of zombies?

WHAT?!? SHUT THE FUCK UP. Tired of zombies, he asks! TIRED of motherfucking ZOMBIES?!?!

I am going to bite you until you turn, buddy.

Dioxin said @ 12:32am GMT on 4th Jun
deadheads rejoice!

Roulette1337 said @ 12:39am GMT on 4th Jun
I stopped reading walking dead after a certain bit which kirkman just seemed to be doing for shock value.

I would have preffered if zombieland had turned into a tv show rather than a movie.

Mr. Langosta said @ 12:52am GMT on 4th Jun
Zombieland was ooriginally paid television series

Mr. Langosta said @ 12:53am GMT on 4th Jun
That was supposed to say it was originally pitched as a tv series.

Roulette1337 said @ 1:13am GMT on 4th Jun
I know and thats why I said that.

ENZ said @ 12:53am GMT on 4th Jun [Score:1 Informative]
What, the revenge-torturing of The Governor? Any instance of a kid being killed? Those cannibals? Or has there been something more recent? I've only read the trade paperbacks, so anything after what was in vol 11 is unknown to me.

Vol 12 is supposed to come out this month, isn't it?

Of course, if you want zombie apocalypse style shock value, check out Garth Ennis' Crossed. It's about a virus that basically turns people into the Reavers from Firefly who talk like /b/tards.

ENZ said @ 12:57am GMT on 4th Jun
Here is a relatively tame example.

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Roulette1337 said @ 1:17am GMT on 4th Jun
The baby dying. I wanted to avoid spoilers for anyone who isnt up to that bit.

Ennis is such a fucking hack.

ENZ said @ 2:37am GMT on 4th Jun
I like to call him the Quentin Tarantino of comics. Overrated, over stylized, edgy for the sake of being edgy, but every so often produces brilliance.

CapnSilver said @ 2:58am GMT on 4th Jun [Score:1 Underrated]
Punisher: Born and Preacher. Both of those are classics.

ENZ said @ 4:21am GMT on 4th Jun
I'm really digging The Boys. It's no where near on par with Preacher, but it's awesome to see the super hero genre get shat all over so thoroughly. It's not subtle, but so what?

archangel_2 said @ 1:40pm GMT on 4th Jun
My favorite Ennis story will always be his Hellblazer story (barring any future work that knocks it out of the park, of course - but so far, that's the best he's had to offer.)

GordonGuano said @ 8:12pm GMT on 4th Jun
I'm finding a surprising amount of nuance (at least, for Ennis) in The Boys. If this were just a Rifle Brigade-type romp, The Frenchman would only get to say a catchphrase instead of actual dialogue. Of course, Darick Robertson's art has a lot to do with that.

ENZ said @ 12:14am GMT on 5th Jun
There is nuance in the main characters sure. In fact, I read somewhere that The Frenchman's dialog is actually intentionally sketchy. It's is rife with grammatical errors and the like. Combined with his backstory as told by him, it's suggested that he's not French at all, and his hiding a much darker past.

The critique of Superheroes, on the other hand, is what lacks subtlety. When you flat out say that all superheroes are rapists and murderers, and all their heroic exploits is just propaganda so they can make millions selling comic books while hiding their real agenda of being primed up for a takeover of the military-industrial complex with metahumans instead of arms manufacturers, it's obvious he's got a huge chip on his shoulder for the genre.

GordonGuano said @ 1:19am GMT on 5th Jun
Have you been keeping up with the single issues? The latest storyline involves a group of supes loosely based on The Legion of Superheroes. They are an incredibly lame and innocent bunch of fuckups, but they have each other. I would never have expected poignance from Ennis, but if something awful happens to Bobby Badoing, I will actually feel bad. Sure, you can tell which supes Ennis has a real animus against, but I think it's cute more than anything ("so he has to make a giant green hand and wank off the Galaxius fella?").

It's not just Frenchie's dialogue that I think takes The Boys to a higher level than Ennis has gone before, though. His concern for The Female at not inconsiderable risk to himself made for an incredibly touching scene, enhanced by Robertson's gift for expressions. This might be the first work worthy of Robertson's talent since Transmetropolitan.

ENZ said @ 5:10am GMT on 5th Jun
Again, like The Walking Dead, I've only been reading the trade paperbacks.

balzac said @ 6:40am GMT on 5th Jun
It's really the best way to read comics.

GordonGuano said @ 7:42am GMT on 5th Jun
Agreed, but I'm making an exception for The Boys. It's that damn good.

balzac said @ 6:05am GMT on 4th Jun
Walking dead, in the reluctant words of my comics professor, is literally the walking dead.

The comic has been running on empty for about 4 volumes now.
And I say that as a huge fan of zombies AND kirkman.

SPOILER ALERT. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED

I think the end of the prison arc was the turning point for me, as well. Not so much that I disagree with killing off the baby and the wife, but that where the series went from there really wasted the potential of such a serious event.

Hallucination phone anyone?

Not to mention that the execution of.. Tyrell wasn't it? I can't remember his name, was completely paved under by more serious stuff. That makes sense for rick and his son, but even Michonne seems to have barely registered it.

There are a lot of extraneous characters right now that would have benefited from story arcs told from their perspective, but instead of whittling the group down by killing off characters or splitting the group, they're just regrouped and replaced. The comic is really chafing and suffering under the large group dynamic.

balzac said @ 6:25am GMT on 4th Jun
It also definitely doesn't help that Adlard isn't nearly as good at the nasty stuff as Tony Moore. Moore's gore is three times as convincing and greusome The panel where Rick's horse gets eaten in Atlanta had way more impact than the variety of beheadings and amputations that Adlard has drawn.

Those bites from the first attack on the group were excellent. The guy with the ball cap with the bite on the wrist that exposed bone still sticks with me, Whereas I can barely remember the panel where Rick's hand gets chopped off.

I've lent out books 1-10 so I can't get my bearings.

balzac said @ 6:11am GMT on 4th Jun
Wait, who is Ennis? Walking dead is written by Robert Kirkman.

archangel_2 said @ 1:42pm GMT on 4th Jun
They were talking about Garth Ennis' Crossed comic series as compared to Walking Dead.

balzac said @ 1:45pm GMT on 4th Jun
Didn't sound like it.

foobar said @ 3:37am GMT on 4th Jun
Sorry, no. There's no realistic post apocalyptic scenario where Michael Cera doesn't end up someone's bitch.

balzac said @ 5:51am GMT on 4th Jun
It's not Michael Cera. It's an acting clone. That's what really bothers me about the movie.

Wax said @ 12:41am GMT on 4th Jun
Huzzah!

azazel said @ 8:27am GMT on 4th Jun
Speaking of Dead... Highschool of the Dead/学園黙示録 is a really good manga, well worth your time if you're into zombies and stuff.

Also, All Flesh Must Be Eaten is perhaps the best named tabletop RPG ever. It's also surprisingly good, but I guess that's more to do with what you make of it than any inherent qualities...

klingon_fodder said @ 8:41am GMT on 4th Jun
i am so fucking tired of zombi shit -- i quit watching z flix, quit reading z comix, don't even think about z games -- i recall when the original NotLD was the long-running midnite feature at the fairfax in west LA and the same psychos came for every show -- george romero should be impaled -- the only good to come out of this is the term "jewish zombi" -- when is zombi culture going to DIE DIE DIE ?!?!?!?!?

foobar said @ 10:53am GMT on 4th Jun [Score:2 Funny]
You have to shoot it in the head.

ENZ said @ 4:54pm GMT on 4th Jun [Score:1 Funny]

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balzac said @ 12:52pm GMT on 4th Jun
Goode fore yeou. I'me glaed yeou... WFT where'd all these Es come from?

balzac said @ 1:25pm GMT on 4th Jun
What? Fuck the!

klingon_fodder said @ 8:06pm GMT on 4th Jun
those are surplus e's from the letter pool -- years ago, many words were appended to an 'e' like eTrade and eMoney etc -- now 'i' is the preferred vowel, as in iFuck and iBloviate -- so excess e's pop up all over -- you've been e'd, is all

balzac said @ 4:25am GMT on 5th Jun
Fueck.