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The zombie infestation continues unchecked and only a handful of survivors fight for their lives against the rising tide of un-dead mayhem! Will these poor souls find hope in the small coastal town of Alfredo Bay, or has that world died along with most everything else in this post apocalyptic nightmare?

Dynamite’s hit series Raise the Dead returns with an all-new tale of undead debauchery, plotted by Leah Moore & John Reppion, scripted by Mike Raicht, and with art by Guiu Vilanova!

Collecting the four-issue series in one volume, complete with bonus material and a cover gallery.

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ometimes with Twitter, and Facebook, and Google+, and everything else, we get so used to putting bitesized chunks of information out quickly, as and when, we forget that some of the more major stuff can easily get lost amid more trivial things. So, for the benefit of those of you who might not be addicted to any of the above sites (as well as those who are but just missed any of this info as it zipped past), here are few exciting bits of Moore & Reppion news:

• The Thrill Electric will be available on iTunes (still 100% FREE) as of next month.
• Darklore Vol VI is coming early December 2011 (just in time for Xmas) and features an article about the mysterious prehistoric Calderstones monument here in Liverpool, written by John Reppion.
• Moore & Reppion have just sold their first Black Museum story to 2000 AD (thanks Tharg).
• We’re writing a brand new 8 issue series for Dynamite Entertainment (we also have our second Sherlock Holmes series – The Liverpool Demon – coming next year).

That’s all we can tell you about for now but there’s plenty more exciting news to come very soon. If you’re not one who Twits, or a Facebooker, or whatever, you might want to subscribe to our mailing list to make sure you don’t miss anything. Otherwise, please keep checking the site for regular updates.

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A couple of months ago Leah and I were asked if we had some pictures of ourselves to go with an interview, or an article, or something. This is not uncommon – every now and again someone will want a photograph of us to accompany something just so, you know, people know what we look like. It makes perfect sense  – if I’m reading an interview I suppose I want to know what the person answering the questions  looks like – but it always feels a bit weird when you have to provide a picture of yourself.

Back in the olden days we used to use pictures we’d taken ourselves, which was okay but not all that professional. Then, in 2009, we had some photos taken for an interview in the Liverpool Echo which, somehow, managed to make us look like proper writers. Naturally then, we’ve been using those pictures for all our official press stuff ever since. However, emailing them off for umpteeth time, it dawned on me that we should probably, finally,  stop using them. They’re fantastic pictures but, perhaps unsurprisingly, neither of us actually look very much like we did two years ago. This meant that we had to do a really weird thing – we had to try to get some new professional photographs taken.

I say weird because… well, because  it’s weird. We’re pallid, stay at home writers – why would anyone want pictures of us? But, as I’ve explained, sometimes people do. They really do. So it makes sense. But it’s still weird.

So, anyway, we did what any self respecting electra-magnetically radiated, shut-in, keyboard-jockeys would do when faced with uncertainty about anything -  we asked Twitter for help.  One of the first replies came from our old e-chum author Mr Adam Christopher (lots more info about him at www.adamchristopher.co.uk) who suggested we get in touch with Stockport based photographic duo Diana Steinway and Chris Cawthorne AKA DC Sterne (see examples of their wonderful work at dcsterne.posterous.com) who had taken some great author shots for him. So, we did and they, very nicely, said they’d love to take some photos of us. That was it. That simple. That’s why it’s cool living in the 21st century. All we’d need to do was sort out a location.

When we were just beginning work on The Thrill Electric a little over a year ago Leah and I -  along with Emma Vieceli, Kit, Fez, Nina and Alex from Windflower, and Andy and Jonathan from Hat Trick – were given a wonderful walking tour of some of Manchester’s extant Victorian sites by Manchester Metropolitan University’s senior lecturer in Social & Economic History Dr. Terry Wyke . One of the many places we visited was the Portico Library on Mosley Street (www.theportico.org.uk) and it left a lasting impression on us both.

The library, which opened in 1803, is housed in a Grade II neo-classical listed building with an impressive Georgian glass and plaster dome. It’s a truly beautiful building housing an amazing collection of books and is well worth a visit (open 10am-4pm on Saturday 10th and Sunday 11th September 2011 as part of the Heritage Open Days if you’re in Manchester this weekend). So, after a bit of googling, we got in touch with Librarian Emma Marigliano and asked if there was any way we might be allowed to have some photos taken in the Portico. And, because she’s lovely, she said yes. Easy peasy.

We had our shoot (I don’t like calling it that…) a couple of weeks ago and, as you can see from the few I’ve posted here, the pictures came out really, really well despite having us in all of them. We’re very pleased with them and amazingly grateful to Diana and Chris for all their hard work.

That’s not all though – when Ms Marigliano kindly agreed to let us use the library she also asked us if we could do her a “favor”. Throughout October and November The Portico will be home to Journey through Wonderland – Alice in Multimedia - an series of events and ongoing exhibitions based around Lewis Carroll’s Alice books and related works. Emma asked us if we’d be willing to give a talk on adapting Carroll’s books into our Dynamite Entertainment series The Complete Alice in Wonderland as part of the events and we, naturally, said yes.

So, please join us at the beautiful Portico Library on Wednesday the 12th of October 2011 for a talk, a Q&A session, and wine and nibbles. In a beautiful Georgian Library that also happens to have a really nice Real Ale pub below it. Come on !

I love it when things just work out.

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The final issue of Raise the Dead II arrives in shops worldwide this week and even if we hadn’t plotted the series ourselves we’d genuinely be recommending it. Writer Mike Raicht and artist Guiu Vilanova have done a fantastic job bringing Alfredo Bay (a joint homage to Hitchcock and Carpenter, in case you hadn’t got that) and the rest of the zombie infested world to life. We really couldn’t have hoped for a better team on the book and we’re eternally  grateful to them both for all their hard work.

Our original idea for RTDII was that, where the first series was set in a kind of Peter Jackson/Sam Raimi/Dan O’Bannon zombie world, the follow up would be darker and more bleak — if series one was our Dawn then two is definitley our Day. We didn’t want to just be nasty for nasty’s sake however; we wanted RTDII to have a (still beating) heart too and Mike and Guiu have really pulled that off.

If you haven’t picked the series up already then you really, really should and if you don’t cry reading the final issue then chances are you’re already a zombie yourself.

BEWARE SPOILERS FOLLOW!

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The Zombie onslaught continues! In this gore-ific issue we peek back in time and witness the terrible zombified end of Alfredo Bay. What deep, dark secret is Rachel hiding and will its repercussions lead to the end of our survivors? Meanwhile, the remnants of the United States government and military are working feverishly to take back their country, but how do you fight a country filled with undead corpses? The answers to these and other questions will surely horrify you! Don’t miss out!

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