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Credit: AMC The Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman's multimedia entertainment company (and franchise home)  Skybound Entertainment continues to be a treasure trove of news items and teases for the AMC series' upcoming ninth season With still a little over three months to go before the expected season 9 premiere, our friends over at "The House of the Dead" have[...]

Between social media, conventions/fan events, interviews, set visits, and anyone with a decent camera and some time to spend in and around the Atlanta area, there are ways to get information — and usually the obvious ones are the ones we end up finding last. Credit: AMC Case in point? The Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman's multimedia[...]

Do you enjoy buying variant covers, but feel that actually seeing them before you hand over your money takes some of the fun out of it? Well, you're in

Walking Dead hero Rick Grimes is getting a pretty nifty SDCC exclusive box set from Skybound and McFarlane Toys The four-figure set, the "Evolution of Rick Grimes", will feature Rick at various stages of the characters 15 year history in the comic book First, a brand new sculpt of Sheriff Grimes, a new version of[...]

If you're not familiar with Seanan McGuire work in the grown-up publishing world, perhaps all you need to know is that she's apparently a really big X-fan, as exemplified by her complete geek-out when the news of the annual broke.

Crude continues with Piotr Petrovich reaching the city of Blackstone and finding it under the thumb of two warring gangs. He plans to go through them both to figure out what happened to his son. Does it make for a good read?

The series are being produced through Amazon's first-look deal with Kirkman's Skybound Entertainment. Hickman, who will now be able to add "f*** you money" to the long list of negotiating advantages he has over desperate comic book publishers like Marvel and DC, said of the budding relationship with Skybound and Amazon: "Nick, J.M[...]

Skybound Entertainment has announced the final story arc of Thief of Thieves, coming this July, along with its creative team New writer Brett Lewis will join artists Shawn Martinbrough and Adriano Lucas on the last set of issues of the comic created by Robert Kirkman, who in his high school senior yearbook was voted most likely[...]

This installment of Bleeding Cool Comics Chatter consists of yours truly, Josh Davison, and Jeremy Konrad discussing Exiles, Domino, Immortal Men Crude, and the Dead Hand, all of which are first installments of their series.

Little more than a month after leaving his role as Editor-in-Chief at IDW amidst widespread industry turmoil, Chris Ryall has signed on with Skybound, according to a report from THR Ryall apparently doesn't have a title yet, but he'll work alongside current Skybound Editor-in-Chief Sean Mackiewicz on publishing, the report claims. Skybound founder and Walking Dead mogul[...]

"I'm thrilled that Skybound reached out to me to do just that, and that we took the time to find the right artist in Alexandre, who's brought this strangely familiar world to life with the help of Jean-Francois Beaulieu's lovely color work." "Since the beginning, I've always followed my heart when choosing the stories I'd draw,"[...]

Skybound has released the "April Fools" variant cover for Redneck #12 by Gabriel Hernandez Walta, playing off the Marvel Legacy trade dress with a Skybound Legacy story titled "Granpa Wins!" The comic is billed in a press release as the "jaw-droppingly shocking, mouth-wateringly delicious finale to the second story arc" of Redneck. In the smoldering fallout of[...]

Oblivion Song delivers a world where thousands of people have disappeared and arrived in a world called Oblivion. Only a handful of people still seek out the survivors. Is it a good read?

In a move sure to send shockwaves throughout the comics industry and beyond, Skybound mogul and third most famous person to ever come from Kentucky Robert Kirkman has sworn to refrain from going back to press on Oblivion Song #1, the first issue of the exciting new comic from Kirkman and Lorenzo de Felici! According to[...]

Redneck #9 brings many of the Bowman family into the hands of Father Landry. He has plans for them, and they aren't pretty. However, the police have caught wind of a disturbance and are on their way. Does it make for a good read?

Joshua Williamson and Andrei Bressan's Birthright will be coming to a theater near you sometime in the future, courtesy of Universal Pictures and Skybound Entertainment The Image Comics fantasy series, which also features colors by Adriano Lucas, will be produced by David Alpert, Bryan Furst, Sean Furst, Jeb Brody, and Robert Kirkman. Kirkman, the third famous person to ever[...]

If you don't want to know anything about the ending to Invincible, you best click away now. Go ahead. Get out of here. Still there? Okay. Artist Ryan

Negan leads a box set of villains from The Walking Dead comic in an exclusive figure box set coming on Black Friday to the Skybound Store. This one takes its place next to the Shiva Force Box Set that was sold at cons this summer starting at SDCC The box set includes GI Joe-style carded figures[...]

Thankfully for Evolution, the Skybound horror title by James Asmus, Joseph Keatinge, Christopher Sebela, Joshua Williamson, Joe Infurnari, and Jordan Boyd, it looks like the title has what it takes to survive. Evolution #1 is being "rushed back to print in order to keep up with increased customer demand," according to a press release from Image Comics. A[...]

Vaughan and award-winning artist Fiona Staples, is coming to Funko! Saga depicts two lovers from long-warring extraterrestrial races, Alana and Marko, as they flee authorities from both sides of a galactic war. Traveling with their newborn daughter, Hazel, they encounter astonishing aliens, fearsome bounty hunters and a host of allies and enemies alike as they try and keep their new family[...]

Octavio Karbank reports on the Skybound Entertainment panel at the New York Comic Con Skybound Comics, partnered together with Image Comics, features such talent as Robert Kirkman and Donny Cates Together with Image, they put out a tremendous body of work, including fan-favorite titles like The Walking Dead and Invincible, and lesser-known masterpieces like Kill The[...]

Get those checkbooks ready, television producers! Walking Dead mogul and Kentucky land baron Robert Kirkman is launching a new ongoing series with artist Lorenzo De Felici at Skybound in March 2018. Called Oblivion Song, the new series is a sci-fi book and also features colors by Annalisa Leoni and letters by Rus Wooton Newsarama has greedily sucked the[...]

With good art, compelling characters, and an allegory about how groups can become radicalized against one another, Extremity provides an engaging story.

Manifest Destiny #31 is an intriguing read, opting for slow-boil storytelling as opposed to back-to-back terror. It makes for a great read.

Robert Kirkman's Skybound Entertainment hopes that it's going to find ratings and critical "life" on other planets, optioning award-winning science fiction author Frederik Pohl's 1977 novel Gateway for development as a TV series The novel is the first in a series of six books in Pohl's "Heechee Saga" that chronicles the history of an alien[...]

At all the big cons they bring great, quality Skybound exclusives And this year is no different While not as many as SDCC, these will be just as desirable. Walking Dead NYCC Exclusives #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 50%; } #gallery-1 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-1 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */ Beta Action Figure[...]

Skybound, as part of their first look deal, and Universal are developing a feature film based on the comic series Kill the Minotaur by writer's Christian Cantamessa and Chris Pasetto with art by Lukas Ketner and Jean-Francois Beaulieu The series debuted in June as is based on the Greek myth of Theseus and the Minotaur[...]

With The Walking Dead Season 8 premiering on October 22nd (a milestone 100th episode), AMC released a much more detailed synopsis for the season that

But did you know the company behind the Walking Dead franchise, is flipping the script on how the entertainment industry works with, and more importantly, for creators? Skybound Entertainment, a multi-platform entertainment company, was founded by Kirkman and CEO David Alpert in 2010, and now has developed properties in comics, television, film, interactive gaming, animation,[...]

When it was announced last week that Robert Kirkman and Skybound Entertainment had ended its long-term deal with AMC Networks and signed-on to a two-year deal with Amazon Prime, there was some concern as to how the deal would impact Kirkman's current AMC programming slate The creator of The Walking Dead, Fear The Walking Dead[...]