Image Comics/Skybound Entertainment have announced that the Panel Syndicate story The Walking Dead: The Alien by Brian K. Vaughan (Saga) and Marcos Martin (The Private Eye) will be available in an oversized hardcover. The story, which is an offshoot of the bestselling The Walking Dead by Robert Kirkman and Charlie Adlard, will be out in July 2020.

“I couldn’t be a bigger fan of Vaughan and Martin’s work,” said Kirkman. “I’ve been very hesitant to allow anyone to play in the Walking Dead sandbox in comic form but when the opportunity arose for these gents to show up what Charlie Adlard and I had been doing, I jumped at the chance. It’s remarkable what Vaughan and Martin were able to accomplish in one self-contained story. A tale with so much heart and emotion told far more succinctly than I’ve ever been capable of. I’m so thrilled to finally be sharing this story with a wider audience in this spectacular hardcover edition.”

The story, set in The Walking Dead continuity, includes never before seen designs, sketches, and layouts. It was originally released in digital format on Panel Syndicate and printed as an oversized single issue. This will be the first time that The Walking Dead: The Alien will be available in wider release.

It will be released on Wednesday, July 29 and in bookstores on Tuesday, August 4. It can be preordered at local comic book shops.