Apparently deciding that speculative fiction just isn’t recursive enough, but that zombies are bookselling gold, Boom! Studios chose this weekend’s San Diego Comic Con to debut Fanboys vs. Zombies.
Created by conceived by Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winning producer Ben Silverman (The Office, Ugly Betty), who is the CEO and founder of multimedia studio Electus, and Jimmy Fox, who is the Head of Creative Development for Electus, FVZ “aims to put all those survival theories to the test and give readers some ideas for their own zombie apocalypse contingency plan,” according to Boom!’s Editor-in-Chief Matt Gagnon.
Boom!’s Marketing and Sales Director Chip Mosher offers this description of the book: “They’ve been called geeks, nerds, and social outcasts, but when a group of fanboys take their annual trip to Comic-Con International they’ll find one of their greatest nightmares turned reality as San Diego becomes zombie ground zero. Armed only with the undead know-how they’ve gained from comic books, video games and horror movies, it’s up to one group of friends to navigate the Comic-Con feeding frenzy, and make it out alive! But will the zombie hordes be deadlier than they ever imagined? Can they save their friends along the way, and still make it out with some Comic-Con exclusives? Find out when the dead rise at Comic-Con International in the chilling and side-splitting epic, Fanboys vs. Zombies!” He adds “Trust me when I say you’ll never look at Comic-Con or zombie stories the same way again once you feast your eyes on this gory and hilarious masterpiece. BOOM!’s first book, back in the day, was Zombie Tales—the company has been built on horror and humor comics. No one does zombies like BOOM! Studios!”
Co-creator Fox says “BOOM! Studios is the ideal partner for this initiative as no one understands what serves this audience better than they do. We wanted to create this for the real fans. The comic book junkies, the sci-fi nuts, the horror enthusiasts, the hardcore gamers—every one of them will be represented in our cast of characters. This is for any fan who has ever wondered what would happen if they had to play the role of the hero.”