Walking Dead: No Way Out

[samurainoir]

I was originally reading Walking Dead in trade format, but these latest arcs have been so intriguing, I've gone monthly with it. What an agonizing wait between issues!

Rick, Glenn and Andrea have been there since the beginning, and they have been placed in very precarious situations with this new commune. I'm really afraid for all of them!





Hoping many of you will jump on board the book once the TV series starts airing!

[spamn]

I was originally reading Walking Dead in trade format, but these latest arcs have been so intriguing, I've gone monthly with it. What an agonizing wait between issues!

Rick, Glenn and Andrea have been there since the beginning, and they have been placed in very precarious situations with this new commune. I'm really afraid for all of them!

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Hoping many of you will jump on board the book once the TV series starts airing!

It just kills me that people are already slagging the series as a 28 Days Later and Zombieland knockoff, when its source material has been around longer than both.

[Bizarro Amy]

We get it in trade, because I think I would freak out if I could only read a single issue at a time. Nate actually has a line of people at work who want to read it. I keep hoping that someone will go and buy their own copies.

[ctc]

>It just kills me that people are already slagging the series as a 28 Days Later and Zombieland knockoff

Yeah; when it's obviously a Deadworld ripoff!

Not really.... but all zombie stories have the problem of being really similar, so it's easy to compare on e to another like this.

Don C.

[spamn]

>It just kills me that people are already slagging the series as a 28 Days Later and Zombieland knockoff

Yeah; when it's obviously a Deadworld ripoff!

Not really.... but all zombie stories have the problem of being really similar, so it's easy to compare on e to another like this.

Don C.

One of the great things about Walking Dead is that these are true Romero Zombies, and inbetween the Post Apocalyptic horror of man's inhumanity to man, Kirkman's explored a lot of the consequences of living in a world overtaken by them and expanded their 'mythology'. EG, how packs of them behave, how they know to attack the living and not each other, how cold affects them, etc.





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The absolute best thing he did was establish something that everyone forgets about Romero's zombies - iincluding the folks who remade Dawn of the Dead - in a very dramatic reveal in the first year or so: Zombies are not werewolves. It's not the bite that turns you into a zombie; it's dying. It's not that there's an isolated gas leak or infection or a patient zero infecting the world at a single location; the dead all over the world are getting up and walking. ANY dead person with an intact brain will become a zombie. Drowning victims, car accident, natural causes, gunshot victims, suicides that didn't blow their brains out, starvation victims... you get the picture.

It's just that the zombies are so putrid with nasty germs that a bite from them is untreatable and lethal. So you die from a nasty infection. And then, like the rest of the dead in the world, you get your second life. The bite didn't turn you, it just killed you.

Very few people get or realize that, and many other zombie films have not helped by having their rules establishing that only bitten people turn, or explicitly saying that the zombies carry an infection that's transmitted by biting.

[samurainoir]

I think the primary difference between Dead World and Walking Dead is that the latter does not have an overarching supernatural antagonist (ala the King Zombie).

As Rick made explicit around the fiftieth issue... they are the titular Walking Dead and in almost every single scenario they have faced thus far, it's the humans and even the "heroes" of our story that our their own worst enemies (much like the formula of the Romero movies). The zombies are always treated as a plot device or a force of nature and very rarely as any kind of characters unto themselves other than perhaps a reminder of what they once were.

However, the strength of Kirkman's work is it's longevity (much like Deadworld), where it does get to explore long term consequences rather than the two hour slice we get in each Romero installment.

[samurainoir]

Oh poor poor Glenn!

[AcroRay]

I loved WALKING DEAD. It has to be one of the best zombie-genre works out there in any media format. I'm a couple of trades behind, but hope to catch up later this year.

Very few fictional works have kept me in an emotional vice grip and on the edge of my seat like this series.