Check Out The Cover For The Art Of AMC's The Walking Dead Universe

AMC Networks, Skybound Entertainment and Image Comics revealed today the historic new cover to The Art of AMC’s The Walking Dead Universe from iconic illustrator Brian Rood (Star Wars, Transformers).

This all-new cover marks the first time that the casts of AMC’s three iconic TWD series – The Walking Dead, Fear the Walking Dead and The Walking Dead: World Beyond – have ever been featured in the same piece of art, and includes the artist’s rendition of over 50 (!) cast members, along with a multitude of terrifying Walkers.

“We’re thrilled to reveal this monumental painting by Brian Rood, combining all three of The Walking Dead Universe series like never before,” Mike Zagari, Head of AMC Networks Publishing, said in a statement. “The image perfectly encapsulates the epic scope of the ever-expanding TWD Universe, and we look forward to sharing more with fans as we approach the book’s launch this fall.”

Available at comic shops on September 29, and everywhere books are sold on October 5, The Art of AMC’s The Walking Dead Universeis an in-depth compilation of behind-the-scenes pre-production and production art from all three of AMC’s iconic The Walking Dead series and will feature never-before-seen original sketches, concept art, storyboards, special product illustrations, and more from the shows inspired by Robert Kirkman’s comic book turned pop-culture phenomenon.

Marking AMC Networks’ first venture into book publishing, the book also features an introduction by Chief Content Officer of The Walking Dead Universe Scott M. Gimple and fun facts from creators and crew members on all three series. The Art of AMC’s The Walking Dead Universe can be pre-ordered now everywhere books are sold, in both print and digital formats. Plus, fans will soon be able to pre-order an exclusive special variant edition that will be available on Skybound.com and a second exclusive special variant edition that will be available on TWDUshop.com, both in super limited quantities.

FEAR THE WALKING DEAD SEASON 5 TRAILER

When the world's ending, the only choice is to try to make it a slightly better place. Fear the Walking Dead returns June 2. Watch the Season 5 trailer below:

Fear the Walking Dead: Season 2B Comic-Con 2016 Official Trailer

Check out the Fear The Walking Dead Comic-Con trailer for the second part of Season 2 before it premieres on Sunday, August 21 at 9/8c below.

Zombie Book Of the Day: Enthralled by D. Ryan Gish

Like all things in Shane McCall’s life, a trip to the grocery store for a gallon of milk should be simple. No decisions required. Especially not the kind he’s forced to make when an old woman attempts to steal his three-year-old son. And after returning his children home safely, nothing would have pleased Shane more than to forget the incident ever happened. That was several hours ago,     

…before the strange man bit a chunk out of Shane’s arm…          ...before the cryptic word showed up on his mute son’s bedroom wall…

               …before the screaming began.

Now Shane and his family are on a race to leave civilization before doomsday takes over and they become the walking dead they’re desperately evading. But others are hunting them too. Gangs form, outlaws preying on the weak with no society to keep them in check, as Shane leads his family through them to the wild frontier in a splay of bullets. Yet, even in the quiet dark of their new home, they aren’t safe as a new magic in the form of a sorceress harbinger bears news of impending doom and extinction. A darkness is coming, a dark force that wants Shane’s children and doesn’t care if anyone else survives.

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Fear The Walking Dead: Go behind the scenes with the cast and crew.

Go behind the scenes with the cast and crew of Fear the Walking Dead to find out what to expect in Season 2.

Watch entire Fear the Walking Dead Flight 462: Parts 1-16

Fear The Walking Dead: Flight 462, A group of passengers experience the outbreak aboard a commercial plane. Watch the complete 16-part series below .

Fear the Walking Dead picked as one of 2015's worst shows

Variety TV columnist Brian Lowry has released his "The Worst TV Shows of 2015" list. One of the shows to make that list was AMC's Fear the Walking Dead. While I wasn't a big fan of the show and think it needs to pick up the pace, I'm not sure it deserves to be on a "worst shows" list.

Brian Lowry wrote this about Fear the Walking Dead being included on the list:

Again, this spinoff was a victim of its ties to the hugely popular original series, having tried to essentially cross “Parenthood” with the outbreak of the zombie apocalypse. While that was in theory an interesting idea, a lackluster assortment of characters created little incentive to root for anyone to get out alive.

The Dead War Series at Walker Stalker Con NY/NJ

Hi all, this is George Cook author of the Dead War Zombie Series. Last night the wife (who does not understand my infatuation with The Walking Dead or zombies) gave me an early Christmas present by buying me tickets to the first day of the Walker Stalker Con (Walking Dead Convention) in Seacuacus NJ. I just wanted to share a few pics and videos of our fun experience there and some of the very nice people we met.

After parking our car we were greeted by the site of a Walking Dead bus!

Once inside we immediately met Herschel! Okay we met the actor Scott Wilson who was a very nice guy. A little huggy with the wife and I imagined cutting his head off, LOL. But seriously though, he could sense that my wife couldn't quite get into the Walking Dead/ Zombie thing as was trying to make her feel at ease. As I stated earlier he's a real nice guy.

Minutes later we were able to meet Merle AKA Michael Rooker who is also a very nice guy. Nothing like the asshole character he played on The Walking Dead.

We then were able to meet one of my all time favorite characters from The Walking Dead TV show, T-Dog (IronESingleton)! This just might be one of the nicest PEOPLE I have ever met. There were two lines for people with general admission and for others with VIP passes and he treated everyone the same. He spent equal amounts of time with everyone and was actually interested in the fans and loved taking pictures. This guy loves to hug EVERYBODY! He almost broke my neck but it was all love. LOL. he shared some plans with me on some music he is working on so I wish him luck. I wonder if he will b e allowed to use the T-Dog name.

Later we sat and listened to Lincoln A. Castellanos, the actor that plays Tobias on Fear the Walking Dead during a Q & A session. Sorry no pics or video of this as I was to busy explaining to the wife who Tobias was and that there are two The Walking Dead TV shows. But he is a very funny young man and was very coy about the future of Tobias on Fear the Walking Dead.

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We then walked the convention floor checking out what the vendors were selling. This is where I decided to zombify myself much to the bemusement of my wife. The guys at the Zombie Photo Booth (https://zombify.smugmug.com/ made my photo into a very convincing zombie. I have actually incorporated there work into a new ad for my book.

After that it was almost closing time so the wife and I decided to beat the crowds out the door so that we could avoid the traffic but WE had a great time. She eventually loosened up and although she is loathe to admit it she enjoyed herself at Walker Stalker Con.

Can't wait until next year!

George L. Cook III, author of The Dead War Series

Fear the Walking Dead: Flight 462 premieres October, 4!

Fear the Walking Dead may be concluding its first season this Sunday, October 4th, but “Fear” will continue to spread as AMC rolls out its newest web series, officially titled Fear the Walking Dead: Flight 462, online beginning this fall. The first installment of the 16-part series will debut on amc.com on Sunday, October 4th and will then air as promos during two commercial breaks within The Walking Dead Season 6 premiere episode on Sunday, October 11th.

Subsequent episodes of Flight 462, each less than one minute long, will debut every Sunday, online and then on-air as promos during new episodes of The Walking Dead, for the duration of Season 6. In addition, one of the characters featured in the web series, which is produced by Fear the Walking Dead showrunner and executive producer Dave Erickson and co-executive producer David Wiener, will join the cast of Fear the Walking Dead Season 2.

Fear the Walking Dead: Flight 462 tells the story of a group of passengers aboard a commercial airplane during the earliest moments of the outbreak. Over the course of the series, the plane and the lives of its passengers are put in jeopardy once they discover an infected traveler. The series is written by L. Signorino and Mike Zunic and directed by Fear director of photography Michael McDonough.

“Flight 462 is a great extension of the world of Fear and will engage fans across multiple platforms with another riveting story set at the start of the fall of civilization,” said Joel Stillerman, president of original programming and development for AMC and SundanceTV. “We are thrilled to be collaborating with Dave Erickson and David Wiener on another piece of original content. Watching how they’ll bring one of these new characters to the second season of Fear will be really exciting for viewers to follow.”

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Fear The Walking Dead Fans, stop yelling at your TV.

If you are like me you screamed, "Don't do that!", a lot during the second episode of Fear The Walking Dead titled So Close, Yet So Far. I honestly was going ape sh*t every time a character did something that was incredibly stupid. I had to remind myself of something to keep from having a nervous breakdown.

The characters on Fear The Walking Dead don't know the rules yet.

My one little, okay big quibble with this is that this is another zombie show/movie where no one has ever seen a zombie show/movie. So it therefore takes a while to realize that getting bitten is a bad thing and destroying the brain is how you kill a zombie/walker. But I digress...

So when we see Alycia do some dumb sh*t like continuing to touch her sick boyfriend or worse yet her parents allowing her to do so when they know something is wrong we have to just let it go.

When Madison leaves the house leaving the two dumbest teenagers (one being a junkie) on TV behind to fend for themselves during the start of a zombie apocalypse, we have to let it go.

When we see Madison try to talk to zombie Artie while he's going full walker we have to let it go. I thought Principal Skinner is the only school administrator that hangs out in school all day. Oops I digressed again.

I'm not even going to mention the other annoying kid, Chris or how polite Travis is through all of this.

So just stop yelling things like "You stupid b*tch!", "Are you f*cking kidding me!", and "The head, hit it in the f*cking head!". At some point, and hopefully soon these characters will learn the rules.

Until then we have Tobias!

Why Are We Obsessed With Zombies?

Check out this Newsweek article by Catriona Miller that delves into our current zombie obsession.

“The zombie apocalypse has upended the entire TV business.”

Those were the words of TV Guide in response to The Walking Dead, the smash-hit show for cable channel AMC in 2012.

Based on an equally popular graphic novel series, the show centers on Rick Grimes, a deputy sheriff who wakens from a long coma to find that the world has been overrun by a zombie apocalypse. It was the No. 1 entertainment series on TV among 18- to 49-year-old adults at the time, a “landmark accomplishment for a cable show.”

The monster ratings continued through to this year, so no wonder AMC is now launching a prequel series. Fear the Walking Dead will take place at the start of the zombie apocalypse and follow a different group of survivors. Teasers, trailers and speculation have been all over the Internet for months ahead of the August 23 premiere, making it one of the most hotly anticipated across the globe for some time.

While the main show is itself returning for a sixth season in October, there are also numerous other big-budget zombie stories in the offing. World War Z is being followed by a sequel in 2017, while the odder mash-up phenomenon that is Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, adapted from a novel of the same name, is due for release in 2016.

And that’s just the tip of the zombie-berg. They stretch into any number of forms that encourage participation in popular culture: video games, such as Wii U console launch title Zombi4U; augmented reality games; phone apps; and immersive zombie walks across the globe. There are zombie runs, where participants are “encouraged” along by zombie attacks; the zombie shopping mall experience; and even the I Survived a Zombie Apocalypse game show.

Read more: Why Are We Obsessed With Zombies?

Sneak Peek: Episode 102: Fear the Walking Dead: So Close, Yet So Far

Check out this sneak peek of episode 2 of Fear The Walking dead, Yet So Far.

The First 3 Minutes of the Series Premiere: Fear the Walking Dead

Check out the first three minutes of the series premiere of Fear The Walking Dead, which premieres August 23,2015.

A Look at the Series: Fear the Walking Dead

Go behind the scenes with the cast and crew and find out what to expect from AMC’s new original series Fear the Walking Dead.

Official Comic Con Trailer: Fear the Walking Dead

Check out this three minute trailer for The Walking Dead spin off, Fear The Walking Dead released at the Comic Con.