Image Comics/Skybound Entertainment has announced that the popular Panel Syndicate story, The Walking Dead: The Alien, by Brian K. Vaughan and Marcos Martin — which spins out of bestselling phenomenon The Walking Dead by Robert Kirkman and Charlie Adlard — will be available in oversized hardcover this July.
The stunning hardcover will feature a story firmly set in The Walking Dead comic book continuity by Vaughan (Saga) and Martin (The Private Eye, Barrier), and will include never-before-seen designs, sketches and layouts.
Originally released in digital format on Panel Syndicate and printed as an oversized single issue exclusively and in limited quantity for Local Comic Shop Day, The Walking Dead: The Alien story will now be available widely and in hardcover for the first time ever.
Robert Kirkman comments:
“I couldn’t be a bigger fan of Vaughan and Martin’s work. I’ve been very hesitant to allow anyone to play in the Walking Dead sandbox in comic form but when the opportunity arose for these gents to show up what Charlie Adlard and I had been doing, I jumped at the chance. It’s remarkable what Vaughan and Martin were able to accomplish in one self-contained story. A tale with so much heart and emotion told far more succinctly than I’ve ever been capable of. I’m so thrilled to finally be sharing this story with a wider audience in this spectacular hardcover edition.”
