Emerald City Comic Con is coming up this weekend, and everybody’s excited. There are all sorts of panels you can attend and goodies you can get, notably amongst them a beautiful hardcover copy of the first 48 issues of Robert Kirkman’s seminal Image work, “The Walking Dead.”
Of course, that book has been around in trade paperback format for quite some time. I’ve even tricked some of my non-comic reading friends into buying it in the advent of the TV show. Of course, once they finish reading, the question is always asked: “When is the second book coming out? When can I read more?”
Here’s your answer: in the most recent issue of “The Walking Dead” (#95), there is a letter in the back of the book asking if there will be a 100 issue omnibus of the series. While there is no discussion of that type of book in particular, editor (and all around cool guy) Sina Grace does reply with this:
I can’t say much about a 100 issue omnibus, but I can say we’ll have a second compendium out this fall! (And THAT li’l announcement is why we printed this letter!)
Which Kirkman later follows up with:
As long as people are interested and enjoying this comic, I can ignore getting the same questions asked over and over. “When is Compendium 2 coming out?” is something I’ve been dealing with on issue sixty-something… and seeing as how Compendium 1 has 48 issues in it… we couldn’t do volume 2 until we had 96 issues done. I look forward to getting asked about Compenidum 3 over the time it takes us to get to issue 144… sigh.
In a later note, Grace also confirms that a second book like “The Rise of the Governor” is on the way.
So there you have it — Fall 2012. “The Walking Dead” Compendium Volume 2. Issues #49-96. Just in time for season three of the show! Prepare yourselves.
