George A. Romero’s not-so-secret Marvel project appears to be lumbering toward a fall debut.
As part of its presentation on Friday to the annual meeting of ComicsPRO, the direct-market trade organization, the publisher released a blood-spattered “Marvel of the Dead” teaser (below) that could only be for the comic the horror legend revealed four months ago.
“I’m writing it now, but its plot is a secret,” the filmmaker said in October. Prodded for details, he added, “Well, I can tell you it won’t involve any of their on-going characters, there will be no superheroes. But it will involve zombies!”
Marvel previously cashed in on the pop-culture revival of zombies in 2005 with Marvel Zombies, a miniseries whose success spawned numerous sequels and one-shots, a prequel, an inter-company crossover (with Dynamite Entertainment’s The Army of Darkness), and countless bleeds into other titles.
The 73-year-old Romero, frequently referred to as the “Godfather of Zombies” because his 1968 film Night of the Living Dead effectively created the subgenre, is no stranger to comic books: He wrote the 2004-2005 DC Comics miniseries Toe Tags, based on an unused move script.
~comicbookresources.com
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