Could "Marvel Of the Dead" Team Zombie Masters George Romero and Tony Moore?

Yesterday, Marvel Comics released a teaser image that just said 'Marvel of the Dead,' with some [...]

By Russ Burlingame

Marvel Of The Dead

Yesterday, Marvel Comics released a teaser image that just said "Marvel of the Dead," with some blood-spattered lettering, and the rough date of Fall 2013. With no immediately-clear candidate for what the book might entail, ComicBook.com and a number of other sites leapt to the conclusion that the "dead" in question would be the standard superhero event-death stuff...but then we got to thinking... Late last year, zombie godfather George A. Romero, director of Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead and Day of the Dead, told Twitch that he was working on a zombie book with Marvel. "I'm writing it now, but it's plot is a secret," Romero said of the book. "I can tell you it won't involve any of their on-going characters, there will be no superheroes. But it will involve zombies!" So, not part of their regular Marvel Zombies line of superhero zombie books, but rather its own, presumably stand-alone zombie story. No further details or artists were offered. But what about Tony Moore? The Deadpool artist appears to be leaving the book or at least trading off for a while, as Mike Hawthorne steps in. He's not yet been announced on another Marvel title (unless I'm forgetting one), and so immediately that's where my mind goes--what if the original artist for The Walking Dead were working with the director of Night of the Living Dead on a zombie story? Would that not be a match made in Heaven for Marvel? And it would give Romero a chance to work as close to The Walking Dead as he's likely to get after passing on directing an episode back in 2011. This is all speculation, of course...

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