Well, it seems that Robert Kirkman’s shadowy web of evil continues to expand:

Robert Kirkman’s first in a three book series with Thomas Dunne Books, an imprint of St. Martin’s Press will hit shelves nationwide October 11th and is now available for pre-sale on Amazon.com. The book, which Kirkman co-authored with horror genre vet Jay Bonansinga, is titled The Walking Dead: The Rise of the Governor.

In The Walking Dead, there is no greater villain than The Governor. The despot who runs the walled-off town of Woodbury, has his own sick sense of justice: whether forcing prisoners to battle zombies in an arena for the townspeople’s amusement, or chopping off the appendages of those who cross him. The Governor was voted “Villain of the Year” by Wizard Magazine the year he debuted, and his story arc was the most controversial in the 7-year history of The Walking Dead comic book series. Now, for the first time, fans of TWD will discover how The Governor became the man he is, and what drove him to such extremes.

Given the nature of Kirkman’s work one can only assume that there will be plenty of gratuitous and excessive violence against Zombies to ‘spice up’ this prose work as well.

An entire novel about a despot who forces Zombies to pit-fight vicious Survivors; what is the world coming to?

Tags: Books, Comics, Robert Kirkman

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