It is written by George A. Romero, his second comic after "The Death of Death", a mini-series he wrote for the DC Comics anthology Toe Tags in 2004 and 2005. Empire features zombies similar to those in his Living Dead series of films. One way the series departs from his films is that vampires are also part of the story.
Publication history
The series was announced in October 2013, as a 15-issue miniseries, split between three 5-issue acts.[1] Act One launched in January 2014, with art by Alex Maleev, and ended in June 2014.[2] Act Two, which featured art by Dalibor Talajic,[3] began in September 2014 and ended in January 2015. The final act, Act Three, features art by Andrea Mutti and began in April 2015[4] and ended in August 2015.[5]
In May 2015, it was announced at Cannes that the production company Demarest was developing the comic series in to a TV series. The series was going to be written and executive produced by Romero and Peter Grunwald, with Sam Englebardt and William D. Johnson also executive producing.[6]
