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• sung - Nov 11 2006 | review, books, comics, Graphic Novel

  so i just finished reading issues 1 - 25 of the walking dead. i first came aware of it because of eric's dot http://bluedot.us/users/eric/dot/67803333199 on this comic series. read what wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Walking_Dead had to say and i became interested.

  here's my review - the first few issues weren't that interesting. you have a cop who gets shot - goes into a coma wakes up to find... yup you got it, zombies. like most horror flicks it seems like a typical storyline. he goes out and finds some peeps - decides to find his wife and kid by heading to his mother-in-laws... you seeing a pattern.

  he goes to atlanta in hopes of finding his family and ends up meeting a group of survivors. okay - the set up is done, so what makes this story different from every other zombie movie story line? well - the character development and the fact it's a continuing storyline. meaning in a zombie flick it has the setup, minor character development, death and some random survivors and then it's over. in this story line it continues more then just a day / a week / etc... by issue 25 the amount of time passed was bout 6 months, and the strain of it was starting to affect the survivors in various ways.

  okay i'm rambling - bottom line, surprisingly good. would recommend that you give it a read - meaning not just read issue one, but read up to issue 5-10 to get the story development, character development and interactions between characters.

  • eric - Nov 12 2006
    

    Hey man, can I borrow the first few? I made it over to the new Fantagraphics store in Georgetown (remember when we were talking about that a couple weeks ago). It was sweet and I started on a new series called "Black Hole." I'll let you know how it goes.