The Walking Dead, Book One by Robert Kirkman

THE WALKING DEAD isn’t immune to these issues. Even the great graphic novels have these issues (WATCHMEN, for example). Or the characters will say and do completely ridiculous things-things that stand out because of the art medium used and because there are so few words. Typically you get panel after panel of people looking shocked and amazed while they repeat over and over, “What?!” It gets old. One of the main reasons we don’t read too many comics or graphic novels is due to the poor dialogue. He encounters fellow survivors and makes his way through zombie infested Atlanta. Just the surface detail there is very 28 Days Later, but it diverges from there quickly. We follow Rick Grimes as he wakes from a coma into a world that has suffered a zombie apocalypse. The art in the first 6 issues is tremendous. After all, what are zombies if not a reminder to what we become without our humanity? After reading THE WALKING DEAD: BOOK ONE ( Amazon) - a hardback collection of the first 12 issues of the series - we were struck by the very human element in it. This series has been going on for a while now, and it is easy to see why. If all those authors in that blog post like it, then it needs to be read. In it, there were several mentions of the Robert Kirkman comic series THE WALKING DEAD. There was a blog post on Jonathan Maberry’s blog back in November talking about zombies. What this TV series did was direct all sorts of attention to the comic series that inspired the TV show. That’s not what this review is going to talk about (though you absolutely should watch the series!). On the whole it was quite good, though it was lacking fairly heavily in the pacing department. The first season of the show came and went in a six episode spurt. While watching AMC’s Mad Men and Breaking Bad, new ads began showing for a new show. Graphic novels, lately, has become to go-to source for new visual material.

The movie industry has been looking to novels for, well, ever. It is natural that various art mediums look to each other for inspiration.

The Walking Dead, Book One by Robert Kirkman