“THE WALKING DEAD” IS GETTING A POP-UP THEME PARK AT COMICCON
Ever wanted to pay to run away from actors pretending to be zombies? You’ll have your chance in San Diego.
AMC has rented out Petco Park (as in, an entire stadium), where you can sign up to be a survivor, and scramble across cargo nets and other obstacles; a walker, where presumably you’ll snack on survivors; or a spectator.
The really ballsy part is that AMC expects you to pay for all of this. Tickets to be a survivor are running at $70 to $90 a pop, although we imagine that as scalpers buy them the cost will go up. There’s no “prize” announced just yet, but we’re a little skeptical a cable network would go to this much trouble and expect people to shell out that much money if there wasn’t something at stake beyond your ego.
Either that or they’re testing out “The Walking Dead Live!” for the general public. We really hope it’s not that.
image courtesy Image Comics
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DAMN! I wish I could go this year. I am really trying to get to San Diego Comic Con in 2013 though. Soo cool though! You guys better reblog the shit out of this! lol
The Walking Dead Video Game Episode Titles!
Episode 1: “A New Day”
Episode 2: “Starved For Help”
Episode 3: “Long Road Ahead” (Due out in late summer)
Episode 4: “Around Every Corner”
Episode 5: “No Time Left” (Due out later this year)
Fans of “The Walking Dead” have always wondered whether they have what it takes to survive in the grim post-apocalyptic world of the comic created by Robert Kirkman — and at this year’s Comic-Con International at San Diego, they just might find out. In celebration of “The Walking Dead” #100, Kirkman and Skybound have announced their first ever event, “The Walking Dead Escape: San Diego,” which is described as “unlike any obstacle course event in the U.S.” The post-apocalyptic event will expand on “The Walking Dead” comic book series, allowing both Survivors and Walkers to explore the initial days of the zombie apocalypse. To that end, Skybound is turning Petco Park into a full-out representation of the earliest days of the undead uprising.
“Our fans have been reading about it, watching it and now they get to live it with The Walking Dead Escape,” Kirkman said via press release. “We are literally transforming Petco Park into the early days of society’s collapse and San Diego is just the first city to fall.”
The obstacle course isn’t a race (participants aren’t even timed), and the objective is simple: survive. At the end of the course, survivors reach a “decontamination zone” where it’s determined whether they’ve actually survived or if they’ve become infected. If participation isn’t quite your game, spectators are allowed to watch the apocalypse from thesafety of the “Escape Party.”
Robert Kirkman talks The Walking Dead #100 (Semi-Spoilerish if you’re not caught up on the comics… If that’s true SHAME ON YOU!)
We’re quickly approaching The Walking Dead #100 and Robert Kirkman promises that it will “easily be the most gruesome, most violent, disturbing” issue of comic book series. During a recent interview, he talks about issue #100, a panel from a previous issue that still haunts him, and his writing process:
***Major Spoiler Warning: There are major spoilers for those who have not read the first 50 issues of the comic book series. This also may be a future TV series spoiler.***
Via CBR: “Speaking of moving forward, and I know you don’t like to give much away about upcoming issues, but can you tell us anything about what happens in “The Walking Dead” #100?
I can say that everybody knows that there’s this group out there called the Saviors that are kind of intimidating everyone on the Hilltop. They’ve kind of gotten on Rick’s radar, we [saw] their first interaction in #97. We’ve basically got another very violent, dangerous group out there that Rick is going to be clashing with head-on and I can say that issue #100 is going to easily be the most gruesome, most violent, disturbing issue of “The Walking Dead” yet. So, be on the lookout. Yet, when I say that, I do remember all of the gruesome, disturbing and violent things that have happened in “The Walking Dead” thus far, so I promise I mean it.
In a lot of comics, you hear that kind of tease and it feels like bluster, but considering all the insane things you’ve done, readers must take you seriously. Are there moments that even surprised you with how far they went?
Seeing that baby arm come out from under Lori with her staring at you with those dead eyes in that panel Charlie drew [in “The Walking Dead” #48], that panel still haunts my dreams. When I wrote that, I was really upset and like, “Ah god, we’re killing this baby, but we’ve got to do it, it’s ‘The Walking Dead.’” And I never in a million years expected that panel to affect me the way it did when Charlie turned that page in, but that’s a real tough one for me, but it’s part of the job. You gotta do what you gotta do.
Is that how you generally work by focusing on “The Walking Dead,” “Invincible” or “Super Dinosaur” for a certain number of days and then moving on to the next?
I bounce around. It’s not structured at all. Sometimes I’ll work on all three in a day and sometimes I’ll work on one of them for a week or two. I know it does help me to move from those different stories and different kinds of genres and moods. I do exaggerate a little bit, it’s not completely depressing to write “The Walking Dead,” but there have been times where I’ve written nothing but “The Walking Dead” for a solid week and at the end of that week I’m like, “Ahh, I’m just not happy and I don’t know what’s going on.” Then I realize like, “Oh, yeah, you’ve been in this world and it’s affecting you.” “
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