Comics
Preview: ‘Zombies Vs. Robots’ Annual
Zombie and robot apocalypses can be found across pop culture right now. Perhaps because they represent our deep seeded fears of the future, and reflect the current downtrodden state of society. Or maybe it’s just because they’re badass. Either way, IDW brings robots and zombies together for an all out war in the first Zombies Vs. Robots Annual. Check the preview after the jump.
WRITTEN BY: Chris Ryall, Daniel Wilson, Rio Youers, and Kevin Grevioux
ART BY: Ashley Wood, Sam Kieth, Andy Kuhn, and Drew Ford
PUBLISHER: IDW
PRICE: $7.99
RELEASE: May 30th
This first-ever ZvR special not only reunites co-creators Chris Ryall and Ashley Wood, but it opens the ZvR world to other creators, too. Creators like novelists Daniel Wilson and Rio Youers, artists Sam Kieth and Andy Kuhn! In “Seasons of War,” each creative team looks at a different season of the zombie-robot apocalypse!
Comics
IDW Dark and Paramount Announce New ‘Smile’ and ‘A Quiet Place’ Comic Book Tales
IDW Dark and Paramount recently joined forces to launch limited comic book tales set in the worlds of Smile and A Quiet Place, and we’ve learned today that they’ll continue hanging around in those franchise universes with two brand new limited series tales.
Entertainment Weekly has exclusively revealed this afternoon that IDW Dark’s Any Given Smile debuts in September, while A Quiet Place: Rising Tides arrives in November.
First up, from writer Stephanie Williams and artist Pablo Collar, Any Given Smile puts a football-themed twist on Parker Finn’s successful Smile movie franchise.
The five-part limited series is “set in January 1995, during the American Arena League football championship game in St. Augustine, Florida. The rising superstar of the Sharks, backup quarterback Dupree, is feeling the pressure from his teammates, the fans, and also the city’s gambling underworld, to whom he owes a considerable debt. Meanwhile, a sports journalist investigates a string of suicides that may be connected to the big game. At the very least, they are connected to a sinister entity that preys on the minds of its victims.”
From writer Declan Shalvey and artist Luke Sparrow, A Quiet Place: Rising Tides will also be a five-issue limited story. The comic book tale “brings the creatures to the Florida Keys, where a father-daughter duo attempt to survive on water in a houseboat.”
EW further details, “This tense family reunion coincides with the arrival of the vicious creatures that hunt through sound. Grace and her dad find safety on the open ocean, but she’ll have to make landfall sooner or later; the father’s oxygen tank and their supplies are running low, while a hurricane swiftly approaches.”
Learn more about both comic books over on Entertainment Weekly.



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