Walking Dead's Rick Grimes and Danai Michonne Hawthorne to get spinoff series

Longtime The Walking Dead cast members Andrew Lincoln and Danai Gurira wowed fans at Comic-Con on Friday with a surprise appearance at Hall H. The two announced a spinoff series centered around Rick Grimes and DMichonne Hawthorne is set at AMC+, the two actors revealed in a surprise appearance at the last-ever “The Walking Dead” San Diego Comic-Con panel on Friday. The limited series will consist of six episodes and is expected to premiere next year. Scott Gimple will serve as showrunner, and Lincoln and Gurira are executive producers.

The spinoff is going forward in place of the previously announced “Walking Dead” films, which were set to be led by Lincoln. According to its logline, the show “presents an epic love story of two characters changed by a changed world. Kept apart by distance. By an unstoppable power. By the ghosts of who they were. Rick and Michonne are thrown into another world, built on a war against the dead… And ultimately, a war against the living. Can they find each other and who they were in a place and situation unlike any they’ve ever known before? Are they enemies? Lovers? Victims? Victors? Without each other, are they even alive — or will they find that they, too, are the Walking Dead?”

“Rick and Michonne are two of my favorite people and Danai and Andy are two of my favorite people,” Gimple said in a statement. “Working with all of them continues to be a dream come true. The three of us, along with a terrific team of TWD all stars and incredible new voices, are crafting an insane love epic worth the long, long wait.”

New trailer for The Walking Dead: Michonne mini-series game

'The Walking Dead: Michonne - A Telltale Miniseries' stars the iconic, blade-wielding character from Robert Kirkman's best-selling comic books, portrayed in-game by award-winning actress Samira Wiley (Orange is the New Black). Haunted by her past, and coping with unimaginable loss and regret, the story explores Michonne across a three episode miniseries event. Players will dive into the mind of Michonne to discover what took her away from Rick, Carl, and the rest of her trusted group... and what brought her back.

In this premiere episode, Michonne joins Pete and his crew on the sailing ship The Companion as they cruise the coast for survivors and supplies. When a desperate signal for help draws them to a scene of horrific massacre, Michonne and the crew are lead further to the floating survivors' colony of Monroe, which may just be harboring the person responsible for the carnage. The first installment, In Too Deep, is available now for PC/Mac, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, Xbox One and Xbox 360 here: https://www.telltalegames.com/walkingdead/michonne/buy/

Watch the launch trailer below.

Sonequa Martin-Green (Sasha) previews 'The Walking Dead'

Bigger' is the best way to described the new season of 'The Walking Dead,' according to star Sonequa Martin-Green who plays 'Sasha Williams.' She previewed season six during Good Day New York. Watch more of that interview below:

The 'Walking Dead' Season Premiere Wants To Be Spectacular

The Walking Dead’s season-six premiere is set up to make you think it is an ambitious piece of TV filmmaking. It jumps back and forth in time, putting the past in black-and-white, the present in vibrant color. The episode, titled “First Time Again,” is constructed as a daring, somewhat complex plan to corral and contain a large number of walkers, led, of course, by Rick Grimes.

It looked for a little while last season that The Walking Dead had finally come up with a woman who could match Rick for tough leadership. She came in the person of Tovah Feldshuh as Deanna Monroe, leader of the Alexandrians. Feldshuh is a singularly commanding actor, and Deanna an unusually forceful figure in the Walking Dead TV-universe. But though this is open to interpretation, I think Sunday’s episode proves — very pointedly at the start of a new season — that no one gets the upper hand with Rick around.

Rick is the John Wayne of The Walking Dead, but he’s not the simple, heroic John Wayne of hundreds of Westerns — no, he’s a specific John Wayne: the John Wayne of The Searchers. The one who is tragically arrogant, blinded by his sense of his own personal loss to insist that his way is the only way, and anyone who disagrees with him should get out of the way or be crushed.

Read more (Warning: Some spoilers ahead.): The 'Walking Dead' Season Premiere Wants To Be Spectacular

Diversity reigns supreme on The Walking Dead

The Walking Dead has quietly assembled one of the most ethnically diverse casts on a top-rated TV show. When it airs its midseason finale Sunday, the show will have at least seven major non-white characters, including Michonne, a sword-swinging African American heroine who is also one of the program's most popular characters.

Listen to a great piece from NPR on the diversity showcased on The Walking Dead below

During a zombie apocalypse are you riding with Michonne or Alice?

Okay boys and girls, here's the scenario.

During the zombie apocalypse you have managed to find a group that contains both Michonne of The Walking Dead and Alice of Resident Evil. Things have been going pretty well ( well as well as things can go during a zombie apocalypse ) until there's an argument about whether to continue on to Alaska or a rumored floating city off the coast of New York. Alice has decided to go one way and Michonne the other. who are you rolling with?

Sneak peek of this season 4 of The Walking Dead featuring Michonne

Check out this Sneak peek of season 4 of The Walking Dead featuring Michonne, her, horse, and walkers!

What's worse? Being black on The Walking Dead or wearing a red shirt on Star Trek?

If you have watched The Walking Dead you know that it ain't easy being African american and staying alive in a post apocalyptic world. In Three seasons we have lost Jacqui ( Season One ), T-Dog, Duanne, and Oscar. ( all in season three ). We still have Michonne, Tyrese, and Morgan ( but he's bat shit crazy ) and the quiet guy with the crossbow who is with the Governor. But then again they were all introduced in season three and T Dog and Oscar had to go to make room I guess. But we still have three episodes left in season three so there's still time for someone to die.

This got me to wondering. What do you think is safer? Being black on The Walking Dead or wearing a red shirt on Star Trek. What do you think?

Walking Dead Poll: Are you Team Prison or Team Woodbury?

Unless you have bee living in a cave you know that next week Rick and his group finally meet up with the Governor and Merle's group. So whose side are you on. Team Prison ( Rick, Michoone, Darryl, etc ) or Team Woodbury ( The Governor, Merle, and maybe Andrea? )? Take our poll below:

Alternate scene introducing Michonne from season two finale of The Walking Dead

Check out this alternate version of Michonne coming to the rescue of Andrea. It features a little more human on zombie violence. It starts at the 37 second mark.

Great close up picture of Danai Gurira as The Walking Dead's Michonne

AMC has released new photos of The walking Dead cast. Check out this cool close up shot of Danai Gurira as Michonne.