This volume brought back so many memories of the show for me and reminded me of just how much I loved it- even with the jump scares.īut The Walking Dead doesn’t only focus on the gore of killing zombies, it also explores how people deal with extreme situations and how these events CHANGE them. I absolutely loved the first two seasons of The Walking Dead, so I decided why not give the comic books a chance. This review contains *spoilers* for both the tv show (season 1 &2) and the graphic novel. Tropes show how literature is conceptualized and created and which mixture of elements makes works and genres unique: So maybe The Walking Corpses are better than I can perceive, although I am still absolutely not sure about how far to read this series regarding the limited options, especially compared to many other series that have aliens and dwarfs in the mix. I am absolutely not sure about my ability to assess characterization, because I don´t really care about that as long as the story is awesome. Just maybe (bloody lie!) I am too plot, action, meta, and complex world building prone to fully enjoy too much character focused art and writing. It´s just not possible to endlessly produce new, fresh, and especially credible plots with the always similar storylines, instead, it goes towards necromantic human flesh made soap opera some people might love, because I can luckily still detect my There can´t be that much science fantasy in it, because many readers expect it to be more realistic survival, which leads to the suspension of disbelief backlash problem, looking at you, Resident evil with fantasy and magic attempts. I love everything zombie, movies, novels, games, but there is, as said, a big problem with the limitation of this setting. This happens later in the series: First growing a beard, then again losing it in redundancy and repetition It of course doesn´t have to end so disastrously as with Game of Thrones, although one can see the problem and conflict potential by the sheer loads of both graphic novels and seasons that just can´t permanently satisfy each individual post apocalyptic wet dream. Seriously, I wonder how this would have evolved and how big it would have become without the TV series.Īs so often, different fandoms clash and quarrel, even playing with the option of full fandom wars. A prime example of how restrictive genre conventions can be. Warning, I now want to drivel a bit about the problems I have with the long running of not just this series, but many famous trademarks/franchises in general.ġ93 comic books and 11 seasons (3 watched 10 years ago) of The Walking Dead show that general fiction, horror, and thriller have a big problem compared with big sci fi and fantasy series, which can play with close to all tropes and genres and mix whatever imaginable. That´s why it´s often spiced with the philosophy of groups or individuals to fuel some extra character focused conflict. So it´s mostly just superficial because the complex systems criticized in other genres don´t exist here anymore and it´s more anarchy, tribalism, and barter than macroeconomicing the heck out of Friedman and Keynes. Political, economic, and ideological content can be put in the armored zombie cracking truck engineīut, it can´t get as complex as in satires or sci-fi, because most of it is just at a steampunk level with some left high tech that makes the owners the big wigs. First, as small and later growing groups, until the big „let´s rebuild/build a better society/ establish a terrible dictatorship, etc.“ instinct kicks in and gives it a bit more meta complexity because now It´s not really that much about secret special recipes for preparing brains, but about how people from different socioeconomic backgrounds develop after the apocalypse. Separated from his family, he must now sort through all the death and confusion to try and find his wife and son.Įdition MSRP: $9⁹⁹ US (ISBN 978-1-58240-672-5)ĭeath often comes with felt eternity, especially in long running series like this one, Resident evil, and similar stuffĮstablishing backstories to prepare future conflicts A couple months ago he was a small town cop who had never fired a shot and only ever saw one dead body. Rick Grimes finds himself one of the few survivors in this terrifying future. In a world ruled by the dead, the survivors are forced to finally start living. In a matter of months society has crumbled: no government, no grocery stores, no mail delivery, no cable TV. An epidemic of apocalyptic proportions has swept the globe, causing the dead to rise and feed on the living. The world of commerce and frivolous necessity has been replaced by a world of survival and responsibility. How many hours are in a day when you don't spend half of them watching television? When is the last time any of us really worked to get something we wanted? How long has it been since any of us really needed something that we wanted?
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