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If you’ve had a look at the film section here at Buzztown you’ll realise I like a bit of Zombie action now and again.

What’s that? you haven’t seen ‘Weekend of the Walking Dead’, well go watch it, I’ll wait here…..

…welcome back, crap isn’t it! Well maybe not bad for a first filmmaking attempt.

Anyway as I was saying, I likes me some Zombies movies, but always get a little sad at the end, because I want to know what happens to the heros after the credits roll.

Well that problem was solved the day I picked up The Walking Dead, by Image Comics. You see, this story doesn’t end,  I guess it will one day, but for now, there are no plans to finish it up. In fact Issue #50 was the highest seller so far and has gone for a second print run. So its future looks good.

The Walking Dead is centered around a small-town police officer from Cynthiana, Kentucky, his family, and a number of other survivors who have banded together in order to survive after the world is overrun with zombies. As the series progresses, the characters become more developed, and their personalities shift under the stress of a zombie apocalypse. Fighting growing despair — and occasionally each other — the group searches for a secure location which they can finally call home.

The only problem with this book is that I can’t wait till the next issue each time. It’s very adictive. Volume 8 of the graphic novel has just come out and it’s on it’s way to me right now.

I highly recommend starting from the beginning and giving it a go. check it out here.

If your a Doctor Who, and comic book fan, you’ll be doubly pleased to hear about “Doctor Who: The Forgotten” from IDW Publishing.

Set to start in August the series will feature “lost” stories from each of the 10 Doctors.

Think it might be worth a look. You can read more about it from its creative team, Tony Lee and Pia Guerra over at CBR

Batman Gotham Knight – Official Trailer

Check out the trailer for the Batman Gotham Knight animated film.

When I first read Watchmen a few years ago, I was blown away at how far it pushed what was possible in a graphic novel.

To date, Watchmen remains the only graphic novel to win a Hugo Award, and is also the only graphic novel to appear on Time Magazine’s 2005 list of “the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to the present.”

So you can imagine, along with everyone else that has read the book, I’m rather excited and scared.

Watching videos like the one here, showing some behind the scenes footage though, put my mind at ease. The amount of detail that director Zack Snyder is putting into the film is incredible and he seems to be sticking very closely to the book.