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In Their Own Words, Fred Van Lente On His New Zombie Series

The Dynamite panel at NYCC has just announced Rick Remender as a new hire for the company, but they are also looking over the week's worth of announcements.

Here's Fred Van Lente on writing his new zombie  comic for the company in 2013.

"Like a lot of things that I do, my zombie project at Dynamite mocks a genre while very much being a part of that genre. In a lot of zombie stories we get the beginning of plague, or the zombie apocalypse, but we skip all the military, governmental and just plain human screw ups that got us from Point A to Point B. Well, that's all this book is about — a global disaster of this magnitude results in a lot global stupidity, and therein lies comedy. Think of this as World War Z with jokes and a B drive-in movie Grindhouse sensibility. At the heart of our story is a group of message-board experts — yes, geeks — recruited (not without real-life precedent) by the Defense Intelligence Agency to see if they can't apply their unparalleled knowledge of the zombie genre to figure a way to solve the crisis. As a professional comics writer, will I allow Internet know-it-alls save the world, or will they all be horrifically slaughtered? I can't wait to find out myself."

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