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‘The Walking Dead: Michonne’ Unsheathes a Reveal Trailer
There’s a handful of Walking Dead games releasing in 2016, and two of them are coming from Telltale Games. The first of them is The Walking Dead: Michonne, a three episode-long standalone series coming in February to help prepare us for what will almost certainly be another emotionally draining season of The Walking Dead: The Game.
“We’ve been hard at work on this very special exploration of The Walking Dead universe that will further bridge together our game series with the canon of Robert Kirkman’s comic though one of its most complex characters struggling to maintain her own humanity,” said Telltale head honcho Kevin Bruner. “Deeply haunted by the decisions of her past, putting players in the role of a character like Michonne to navigate the broken world around her is an experience that feels uniquely Telltale, and something we simply cannot wait for The Walking Dead fans to play.”
This has been a good year for Telltale, thanks to a mostly solid slate of episodic series ranging from Game of Thrones to Minecraft. Between Michonne and their just-announced Batman game, 2016 is already shaping up to be just as good.
Which Telltale series has been your favorite so far?
In the grim darkness of the far future there is only war, but it was a cheerful illustrator from England who helped to define the terrifying war-torn imagery that inspired what we now know as Grimdark (a hybrid genre combining horror with sci-fi/fantasy).
Unfortunately for fans of Warhammer 40,000, Trench Crusade and countless other sources of Grimdark thrills, veteran artist John Blanche passed away this week after struggling with health issues for the past few years.
While the artist retired back in 2023, he leaves us with an enormous legacy of iconic artwork that continues to inspire gamers and storytellers around the world to this very day.
The news is especially gloomy as it was only last year that Daniel Lowman and Napoleon Dynamite himself Jon Heder released The Grim & the Dark: The Search for John Blanche, a documentary following Heder’s exploration of the Grimdark genre culminating in a heartwarming encounter with Blanche in his own home.
Below is one of my favorite pieces by Blanche, his highly influential depiction of Warhammer 40k’s God-Emperor of Mankind on his Golden Throne.
We send our deepest condolences to John Blanche’s family, friends, and fans.
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