At the Chicago Comics and Entertainment Expo this weekend, Marvel Comics confirmed that the second phase in filmmakers George A. Romero’s zombie comics epic Empire of the Dead will kick off in September.The story, which sees vampires and zombies at odds with the city of New York stuck in the middle, will be drawn by Dalibor Talajic, who is delighted just to be working with the horror legend.”In my zombie films, I’ve always been at least as interested in what the living do as what the dead are doing,” Romero said in an on-site interview for Marvel’s website. “We’re supposed to be superior to the zombies because we still have heartbeats, but most of the time it’s us who mess things up. Faced with any kind of crisis—like, for example, a bunch of slow-moving flesh-eaters—our ability to communicate with each other always seems to break down and we end up fighting over all the usual human problems. Money. Food. Shelter. Power.
