{"id":8846,"date":"2013-10-04T05:21:01","date_gmt":"2013-10-04T09:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=8846"},"modified":"2013-10-03T17:53:34","modified_gmt":"2013-10-03T21:53:34","slug":"george-romero-brings-empire-of-the-dead-to-marvel-comics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=8846","title":{"rendered":"George Romero Brings &#8220;Empire of the Dead&#8221; to Marvel Comics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><\/strong><strong><\/strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2013\/z100413empire_dead.png\" width=\"500\" height=\"667\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"><br \/>\n<strong>Zombie<\/strong> fans are gonna love this.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Starting in <strong>January 2014,\u00a0<\/strong> <strong>Marvel Comics<\/strong> is going to publish <em><strong>Empire of the Dead<\/strong><\/em>, a <strong>15 issue series<\/strong> written by <strong>George <\/strong><em>&#8220;Night of the Living Dead&#8221;<\/em><strong> Romero<\/strong> with art by <strong>Alex<\/strong> <em>&#8220;Batman&#8221;<\/em> <strong>Maleev<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Romero<\/strong>\u00a0likes\u00a0that comics have no budget restrictions on special effects&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;It&#8217;s a comic book, which means we don&#8217;t have to go out and shoot the stuff,&#8221; says the\u00a0<i>Night of the Living Dead<\/i>\u00a0filmmaker, who wrote a 300-page\u00a0<i>Empire<\/i>\u00a0screenplay that is being put to page by Marvel and artist Alex Maleev. &#8220;You can let your imagination run wild and do pretty much anything you want, assuming it&#8217;s within the bounds of decency.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Thanks and an extra <strong>&#8220;They&#8217;re coming to get you, Barbara!&#8221;<\/strong> to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/life\/2013\/10\/03\/george-romero-empire-of-the-dead-comic-book-series\/2829897\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>USAToday<\/strong><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicbookresources.com\/?page=article&amp;id=48263\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>CBR.com<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zombie fans are gonna love this. Starting in January 2014,\u00a0 Marvel Comics is going to publish Empire of the Dead,<\/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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[58,17,56,53,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-celebs","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\/8846","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=8846"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8849,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8846\/revisions\/8849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}