The Walking Dead: The Alien One-Shot Comic Now Available; Name Your Price!
Debi Moore
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Are you missing your weekly dose of “The Walking Dead” now that the series’ sixth season has come to an end? Well, a new entry in the comic world of The Walking Dead has arrived, but it’s a bit different from what we’re used to…
As THR explains it, The Walking Dead: The Alien is the first installment not written by creator Robert Kirkman. Instead, the issue was written by Brian K. Vaughan (Y: The Last Man, Saga) and Marcos Martin — who founded digital distribution platform Panel Syndicate, which released the issue earlier this week. The price? Whatever you can afford!
The single issue reveals the fate of Rick Grimes’ younger brother, Jeff Grimes, who was first mentioned in the third issue of The Walking Dead.
“I’d been fascinated by the idea of Rick Grimes’ long-lost kid brother ever since he was first mentioned waaaaaay back in Walking Dead #3,” Vaughan wrote in the afterword of the issue.
The one-shot takes place in Barcelona — where Martin is from — and reveals that the apocalypse isn’t just happening in America.
“In the comics, we’ve stayed in the continental United States; we haven’t really ever explained what’s happened outside of it,” Kirkman said. “I used to joke that people are hanging out in Australia and they’re fine and it’s just the American continents that are all messed up — but that’s not the case.”
Hear more from Kirkman and Vaughn about The Walking Dead: The Alien in the below video from Skybound.
Synopsis:
The Walking Dead: The Alien centers on Jeff Grimes, who wakes up in Barcelona and meets local girl Claudia, a museum curator, and their efforts to return to the States, where the American government is rumored to have found a way to contain the outbreak.
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