{"id":20700,"date":"2018-07-21T18:34:59","date_gmt":"2018-07-21T22:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=20700"},"modified":"2018-07-22T08:44:00","modified_gmt":"2018-07-22T12:44:00","slug":"jonathan-maberry-going-down-george-a-romeros-road-of-the-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=20700","title":{"rendered":"Jonathan Maberry Going Down George A. Romero&#8217;s &#8220;Road of the Dead&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2018\/z072018roadofthedead_maberry.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"297\" \/><\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Remember <a href=\"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=18085\">last year when George Romero announced his next zombie film<\/a>, <em>George Romero Presents Road of the Dead<\/em>?\u00a0 While I was glad Romero was taking part in a new addition to his zombie films, I wasn&#8217;t thrilled with the concept which to me sounded like\u00a0<em>Death Race 2000<\/em> meets <em>Dawn of the Dead<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Then in <a href=\"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=18372\">July of last year, Romero gave an interview<\/a> talking up <em>George Romero Presents Road of the Dead<\/em> and more.\u00a0 Sadly, three days later he died.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Today at Comic-Con, IDW announced that Jonathan Maberry will write a 3 issue mini-series based on Romero&#8217;s Road of the Dead.\u00a0 Maberry is the perfect choice for this project <a href=\"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=18094\">having worked with Romero<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1250112249?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=craizabls&amp;camp=1789&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;creativeASIN=1250112249\">Nights of the Living Dead<\/a> anthology last year.\u00a0 That and the fact that Maberry is a fantastic writer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In addition to Maberry writing the series, I was pleased to see that my pal, Drew Moss will be providing covers and interior art!<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleedingcool.com\/2018\/07\/21\/george-a-romero-road-of-the-dead-comic-idw\/\">Bleeding Cool<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember last year when George Romero announced his next zombie film, George Romero Presents Road of the Dead?\u00a0 While I<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[58,61,52,56,53,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-authors","category-books","category-comics","category-horror","category-zombies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20700"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20708,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20700\/revisions\/20708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}