Skybound has provided CBR with an exclusive first look at new pages from The Walking Dead: Clementine: Book One, by Tillie Walden.
A follow-up to Telltale Games' The Walking Dead: The Final Season, Clementine: Book One is the first in a series of three young adult graphic novels focused on the titular character. Published by Skybound Comet, Clementine sees the character heading north and encountering an Amish teenager named Amos. Together, they head for an abandoned ski resort in Vermont where other teens are trying to build a new settlement.
CBR's exclusive first look at Clementine: Book One takes place in the book's second chapter. Clementine awakes and hears Amos leaving his Amish settlement. She follows after him and sees him dispatch a number of walkers with ease. He reveals that he's going on a rumspringa, a rite of passage in which young Amish people go out into the world. Amos specifically wants to help build a settlement and, as a reward, get a plane flight. As the book reveals, the Amos' Amish community has survived the pandemic, at least in part by closing itself off from the rest of the world. However, this has led to some, like Amos, being naive about what's really happening.
Voiced by Melissa Hutchinson, Clementine first appeared in the first season of The Walking Dead video game. Clementine is a young girl whose parents are missing at the start of the zombie apocalypse. The first game generally depicts her as the ward of player character Lee Everett. However, following Everett's death, players assume control of Clementine. Eventually, she herself became the adoptive parent of a child named AJ and becomes the leader of the Ericson's Boarding School community of survivors. Prior to the events of The Walking Dead: Clementine, she decides to leave Ericson's Boarding School and journey north.
Telltale's The Walking Dead video game series began in 2012. The titles were released episodically and as seasons. In total, Clementine played a key role in four seasons of The Walking Dead. In 2018, Telltale laid off much of its staff, leaving Skybound Games to complete The Walking Dead: The Final Season. The next year, Telltale Games was revived by LCG Entertainment. Currently, there are plans for new games based on Fables and The Expanse.
Walden is a cartoonist best known for her work on 2017's Spinning, a memoir about her time as a competitive figure skater. She won an Eisner Award for Best Reality-Based Work for Spinning. Walden's other published works include 2015's The End of Summer and 2015's I Love This Part.
You can read CBR's exclusive first look at Clementine: Book One below.
Clementine: Book One, by Tillie Walden, goes on sale at comic book stores and on digital on June 22. The book will release wide on June 28.
Source: Skybound