When There Is No More Room In Hell, The Dead Will Wait In Line For Marvel’s One Men’s Room: New Marvel Teaser Poster Released

It’s been a little while since Marvel dumped out one of their recently ubiquitous, one-word teaser posters to hype an upcoming new title, but a new one entered the wild yesterday, following a tease at a retailer’s breakfast yesterday… and as an aside: why does Marvel seem to have so many breakfasts for retailers? It was a retailer’s breakfast at New York Comic Con where Marvel teased The Superior Spider-Man, and it just seems… weird. I know that the owner of my local comic store, where they know me by name and ask me to consider making their establishment the first stop on my comic store / local bar routine, would much prefer a retailer’s cocktail hour. Or at least I presume that he would, considering that every time I leave his store, I hear him mutter, “Christ, I need a drink.” But I’m getting a little off point here.

The point is that there is another intriguing teaser poster for some new Marvel book coming this fall. And the bad news is that, like all the other teasers preceding it, it gives almost no information on the actual book – including no creator names.

But the good news is that Marvel apparently got Ike Perlmutter to sign off on the budget for a couple of additional words for the teaser! Which you can check out after the jump.

Now, the phrase “Marvel of The Dead” lends itself to a million jokes about books by fired and out-of-favor creators… although these days, I’d think we’d be more likely to see that kind of story with the DC bullet at the top. *BOOM!*

But seriously, anything followed by the phrase “of The Dead” simply screams George Romero’s pantheon of zombie flicks… and frankly, the smart money is on this being a tease for a Romero zombie comic for Marvel. A few months ago, Romero did an interview with Twitchfilm where he teased that he was working on a comic book for Marvel:

ROMERO – …I am also writing a comic for Marvel. I’m writing it now, but it’s [sic] plot is a secret.

TWITCH – Awww c’mon George, just a little nibble? A tid bit?

ROMERO – Well I can tell you it won’t involve any of their on-going characters, there will be no superheroes. But it will involve zombies!

So it seems pretty clear that this teaser if probably for Romero’s book… but it still leaves wide open what kind of story it will be. Sure, there will be zombies, but that quote seems to rule out a Marvel Zombies story, unless it takes place in that world but eschews the use of the actual, you know, Marvel Zombies.

If you want my personal opinion as to what this is? Well, Romero has released a couple of zombie movies since he rebooted his original Dead trilogy with Land of The Dead back in the 2005 – Diary of The Dead and Survival of The Dead – the last of which was released directly to Video on Demand rather than getting a theatrical release. And Land of The Dead was actually a lot of the story that Romero wanted to tell in the mid-80s Day of The Dead, but was unable to due to budgetary concerns. So what we might be looking at here is a big zombie story that Romero conceived, but one for which he can’t get the budget to realize on the big screen. But that’s pure speculation. All I know is that I’m a sucker for Romero’s zombie movies, and if he’s bringing that style to comics, I am there.

Regardless, whatever “Marvel of The Dead” stands for will be released sometime in the fall.

(via Bleeding Cool)