AMC renewed its hit series The Walking Dead for a fourth season today … but the news was overshadowed with the announcement that its current showrunner will be departing. The Los Angeles Times has a number of statements from various parties on the change and what it means, if anything, to the series.
Based on the graphic novels by Robert Kirkman, Tony Moore, and Charlie Adlard, the series stars Andrew Lincoln as sheriff's deputy Rick Grimes, who awakens from a coma to find the world dominated by zombies. Setting out to find his family, he finds he is not alone and that others have survived the apocolypse.
The Walking Dead is currently on its mid-season break, and will return with new episodes on Sunday, February 10th, 2013.
Kirkman, together with Jay Bonansinga, have recently co-written two novels (to date) featuring the characters, the second of which was published this past October (details below).
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The Road to Woodbury
Robert Kirkman and Jay Bonansinga
The Walking Dead
The zombie plague unleashes its horrors on the suburbs of Atlanta without warning, pitting the living against the dead. Caught in the mass exodus, Lilly Caul struggles to survive in a series of ragtag encampments and improvised shelters. But the Walkers are multiplying. Dogged by their feral hunger for flesh and crippled by fear, Lilly relies on the protection of good Samaritans by seeking refuge in a walled-in town once known as Woodbury, Georgia.
At first, Woodbury seems like a perfect sanctuary. Squatters barter services for food, people have roofs over their heads, and the barricade expands, growing stronger every day. Best of all, a mysterious self-proclaimed leader named Philip Blake keeps the citizens in line. But Lilly begins to suspect that all is not as it seems. Blake, who has recently begun to call himself The Governor, has disturbing ideas about law and order.
Ultimately, Lilly and a band of rebels open up a Pandora's box of mayhem and destruction when they challenge The Governor's reign … and the road to Woodbury becomes the highway to hell …
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