Walking Dead TV Series Starts Filming!

Robert Kirkman announced that filming has started for the Walking Dead television series, which will air on AMC in October. You can hit the link below to see the details, but here’s the gist of it:

It will start with 6 episodes
It is being written, produced and directed by Frank Darabont (The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile)
There are makeup caps in the link below! Check em out!

http://www.superherohype.com/news/articles/101966-first-look-at-amcs-the-walking-dead

I’m pretty sure Amrit’s necrophilia is starting to creep up right about now.

Jon says, read: Invincible

Think of every great comic series you’ve ever enjoyed. No really, go on, think about it. In your youth, in your adolescence, in your adulthood. Every single one. I’ll give you a minute.

Got em? Good. Now in your head (I repeat, IN YOUR HEAD), tear out every page of fluff, filler, and cheese — wait. Leave in the good cheese. A little cheese never hurt anyone. Now take some duct tape, and tape all the remaining pages together into a book, and what you have, is something that serves as inspiration for Robert Kirkman’s Invincible.

In an unspoiled nutshell, Invincible follows the life of Mark Grayson, a teenager learning to harness the superpowers given to him by his father, the legendary Omni-Man. The series looks at the superhero dilemma, and examines it from all angles; from keeping a secret identity, to dealing with annoying arch nemeses, to the social awkwardness of flying while carrying another man in your arms.

You can tell from where Kirkman draws his inspiration. He makes no apologies about it. In fact, you could almost say this is a love letter to everything that’s great about superheroism. You can tell that Kirkman has a lot of fun writing Invincible. You can tell that he is taking all the great inspirations in his life, and weaving them into a world out of any 80’s or 90’s graphic novel. And yet, there’s a bit of fun-poking to be made. He openly mocks Aquaman (though to be fair, who doesn’t?), and original characters with outlandish names like Monster Girl, Dupli-Kate, Rampage, and the Mauler Twins hint at the kind of cartoons Kirkman watched in his earlier days. Indeed, Invincible covers it all.

What’s best about the series is that no matter how typical and predictable Invincible appears to be, it is still a completely original piece of work. Plots twist and turn, characters hide the greatest surprises up their sleeves, and the universe is rich, and incredibly well laid out. You don’t question why anything has happened, you just want to turn the page to see what happens next.

At the time of posting, Invincible is an ongoing series, still in print. Individually issues are being released, but I’m currently reading the trade paperbacks (just finished 12, desperately awaiting 13). There are also hard cover complications encasing 5 trades in a single volume. Do yourself a favour, and grab the first 3 trades. You’ll be glad you did.