Comics Legend Charlie Adlard Returns to the World of Zombies in This ‘All the pieces Useless & Dying’ Cowl

Charlie Adlard is likely one of the most acknowledged comics artists round, due to his landmark work on The Walking Dead, defining generations of comedian storytelling. Now, the artist is heading again into the apocalypse with a twist—due to a brand new sequence from Image Comics.

io9 can completely reveal your first have a look at Adlard’s stealth variant cowl for the debut subject of All the pieces Useless & Dying, set to hit cabinets this September. Written by Tate Brombal and with artwork from Jacob Phillips, the five-issue miniseries follows a person named Jack Chandler, the only real survivor of his rural farming neighborhood within the wake of a zombie apocalypse.

However relatively than clear his world of the undead—which tragically consists of his husband and their adopted daughter—Chandler has determined to maintain residing with and among the many unliving. As an alternative of preventing off zombie hordes, Jack will discover himself up in opposition to his fellow survivors when a gaggle of outsiders discovers his dwelling, keen to do something to guard the final connections to his pre-apocalypse life from being put down for good. So open large to take a look at Jack doing simply that in Adlard’s cowl for All the pieces Useless & Dying #1 under!

“It is a zombie story that I had by no means seen achieved earlier than, so I got down to write it myself. What if a lone man continued to reside alongside his undead, tended to them, saved them fed, and liked them like they had been nonetheless alive… just for the solid of The Strolling Useless to walk into city and put that man’s total world in danger,” Brombal teased to io9. “It’s about grief. It’s about morality and mortality in a fallen world. It’s about all the things we owe to all the things useless and dying.” 

“I bear in mind getting Charlie to do a sketch of me as a zombie, identical to everyone else, round 20 years in the past at a conference,” Phillips added. “So it felt solely proper we received Charlie ‘King of the Undead’ Adlard to do a canopy for this guide. And I feel we are able to agree, he KILLED it.”

“The Strolling Useless reshaped zombie fiction for the trendy period and its affect is felt throughout All the pieces Useless & Dying, so to get this blessing and passing of the torch from Charlie Adlard himself is nothing wanting unimaginable,” Brombal concluded. “It is a particular profession spotlight for me, as somebody who learn and liked these comics a lot rising up.”

All the pieces Useless & Dying #1 is about to hit cabinets September 3.

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