The release of The Walking Dead Comic-Con trailer this week has the press excited about the drama's Halloween premiere, with praise from Entertainment Weekly, Variety and others.

• Entertainment Weekly calls The Walking Dead trailer "mind-blowing" and warns, "I don't recommend watching it alone!" Variety says, "I believe the word 'freaky' satisfactorily describes the nearly five-minute trailer." USA Today believes the trailer shows that the TV series "just might be as good as the books...and then some." And The Hollywood Reporter writes, "Love zombies? Hate zombies? Don't matter. People are going to be talking about The Walking Dead."

• Robert Kirkman talks to MTV about writing The Walking Dead's fourth episode: "It's kind of like going back home again and getting a second pass at earlier stuff. It's a lot of fun."

• Dread Central's set visit report has Gale Anne Hurd admitting of Andrew Lincoln's casting, "We never thought we'd find our Rick Grimes in the UK."

• USA Today quotes Gale Anne Hurd in a piece about why television centered around cataclysmic events is so popular now: "Under the strain of this kind of environment," she says, "there's a lot of challenge and drama."

Close your windows, lock your doors and clear your schedules. Come this Halloween, you'll have more to fear than trick-or-treaters. AMC has announced that its newest original series, The Walking Dead, will premiere on Halloween night, Sun., Oct. 31 at 10PM | 9C. The Sunday night series will debut with a 90-minute premiere episode. Subsequent episodes will be one-hour long presentations.

If that isn't enough to whet your undead appetites, perhaps footage from the series will: The official four and a half-minute trailer first screened at Comic-Con is now available here online in full-screen HD.

This week, MTV has Frank Darabont comparing Andrew Lincoln to a classic movie star, while on SFX Gale Anne Hurd explains why zombies are so popular these days.

- "You put this guy on a horse and he really does look like Gary Cooper," Frank Darabont tells MTV about Andrew Lincoln.

- Executive Producer Gale Anne Hurd tells SFX that zombies are big now because "there's something in the zeitgeist about human survival after an apocalypse."

- Screen Junkies runs new photos from The Walking Dead that first showed up on AMCtv.com, asking, "Is it October yet? Damn. I'm counting down the days until AMC premieres The Walking Dead." Dread Central, MTV and Comic Book Resources also point to the pictures.

- The Atlanta Constitution has a photo of a military tank being delivered to the set of The Walking Dead. (No Link)

Today, AMC releases five new images from the set of its upcoming original series The Walking Dead, which depict new shots of walkers as well as the arrival of Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) on horseback in Atlanta -- and the horrors he encounters there. The Walking Dead is currently being filmed on location in Atlanta, GA, and will premiere on AMC this October.

You're excited about The Walking Dead, but why only indulge that passion from the comfort of your home or office? Now, courtesy of AMC's official app for the iPhone and iPod Touch, you can take your fandom on the road with free, easy access to crew interviews, eye-catching photos and behind-the-scenes video. It's the easiest way to balance your love of zombies with a perfectly rational desire to stay on-the-go for fear of them.

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MTV catches up with Bear McCreary, the Battlestar Galactica composer who's working on The Walking Dead, while Bloody Disgusting and Fangoria pay visits to the drama's Atlanta set.

- Composer Bear McCreary talks to MTV about writing the score: "I'm a huge fan of the comic, so I already have these melodies in my mind."

- During Bloody Disgusting's set visit, Executive Producer Gale Anne Hurd praises Atlanta's zombies: "I don't think there's anywhere in the world where you could find better zombie extras."

-Fangoria also visits The Walking Dead set, where Special Make-Up Effects Designer Greg Nicotero explains the show will "set a new standard for gore on TV."

Continue reading "MTV Chats With Composer Bear McCreary, Bloody Disgusting and Fangoria Visit the Set" »

The British comic artist for The Walking Dead describes dressing up as a zombie in the AMC series and creating comic art based on live-action depictions of his artwork.

Q: What inspired you to play a zombie extra in The Walking Dead?

A: I just figured if I'm going to be on set watching it, I might as well be in it. I also wanted to get the make-up on as an experience. And I was lucky because I got to sit in the trailer and have the make-up applied by Greg [Nicotero]'s (for want of a better word) A-list guys. That was brilliant, the best part to be honest. It wasn't like those horror stories you hear from all the stars who've had prosthetics put on for hours. It was an hour and a half, and it was air conditioned.

Q: Did you recognize yourself afterward?

Continue reading "Dispatches From the Set - Comic Artist and Series Zombie Extra Charlie Adlard" »

The 76th installment of Robert Kirkman's Eisner-winning comic book series hits stands this Wed., Aug. 11, but you don't need to wait 'til then to find out what happens next. AMCtv.com hereby presents the first seven pages of the latest issue of The Walking Dead comic, in which the conflict at the Alexandria Safe Zone escalates to dangerous levels. Has Rick permanently sabotaged his one hope of safety and happiness? Read on to find out.

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USA Today and TV Overmind chime in this week with coverage of The Walking Dead's Comic-Con presence, while the Guardian discusses zombies getting their due and Frank Darabont talks to Comic Book Resources.

- USA Today calls The Walking Dead The Walking Dead "one of the biggest hits" of Comic-Con, and TV Overmind agrees, adding, "Even with only six episodes for the first season, I have a feeling it's going to leave us craving for more."

- The U.K.'s Guardian newspaper muses about The Walking Dead,"Perhaps AMC is about to kick-start a new trend, which sees the vampires step aside, and the zombie given its due on television too."

- Comic Book Resources talks to Frank Darabont about his initial reaction to The Walking Dead comic: "I get what Kirkman's doing here. I'd love to follow in his tracks and get this going as a television show."

- AMCtv.com's interview with cinematographer David Boyd gets picked up by Rabid Doll, Bloody Disgusting, Dread Central and FlickDirect.

- SyFy's Blastr says of AMCtv.com's Bicycle Girl video, "Now [this video] is really making us cry out for 'BRAINZ!'"