It is still dark outside when the group come across the distinct skyline of Pittsburgh – replete with PPG Place, Fifth Avenue Place and the Encore on Seventh – on the opposite banks of the Allegheny River. While the others debate whether to return to their sleeping bags afterwards, Eugene Porter points out that the noise generated from the skirmish might have aroused additional members of the “walking dead” and they are thus better off continuing their journey instead. The comment elicits another squeal of “Ooooh, exciting” from Yumiko but likewise puts Michonne on edge as well.Įventually the group decides to set up camp for the evening but are interrupted during the night by an unexpected zombie attack.
As for the status beyond the safe zone, however, he has no idea what they can expect to find. This is exciting!”Īt the edge of the safe zone, the group encounters a guard who tells them that things have indeed been quiet. “I’ve never been that far north in my life,” she remarks. The journey involves an additional fifteen miles within the safe zone from their starting point so Michonne is expecting a “quiet day,” but fellow traveler Yumiko has a different viewpoint. The first of these twin issues begins with leader Rick Grimes sending a small group of his followers – led by Michonne Hawthorne – to Ohio in order to meet with another survivor simply named Stephanie. Romero died in July 2017, and while issues 170 and 171 had been written beforehand, their release in August and September of that year served as a tribute nonetheless, bringing a small group of survivors from The Walking Dead to the Steel City for the one and only time. The Walking Dead simply does not exist without George A. They’re the true north of what I’ve done in this series. To say these movies were an inspiration for what you’re now reading the 171st issue of is an understatement. Romero and the setting of Night of the Living Dead and Dawn of the Dead – I just couldn’t resist the idea of having Michonne turn around and reenact the memorable scene from Day of the Dead.
“When I had them leaving deserted Pittsburgh – the hometown of George A. “I wrote the opening sequence to this issue a few months ago,” Kirkman explains in the back of issue 171 of The Walking Dead.
PRINCESS THE WALKING DEAD SERIES
It was Romero, after all, who transformed the zombie lore of the past into the living dead of today, while Kirkman took inspiration from Romero’s groundwork to create his on classic The Walking Dead, first as a long-running comic book series and then as a successful television show. Twenty-two years later, Michonne Hawthorne tells a group of fellow survivors in issue 171 of The Walking Dead comic book, “Hold up, I want to try something.” She then looks around her surroundings on the outskirts of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and likewise shouts, “Hello! Is anyone there?”īoth scenes share more than the same dialogue as each was written by arguable the two biggest giants of the zombie genre – George A. Suddenly one of them shouts, “Hello! Is anyone there?” In the opening scene of the 1985 film Day of the Dead, two of the main characters disembark from a recently landed helicopter and stare down a vacant street cluttered with debris.
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