Title: The Walking Dead
Slug: the-walking-dead
Date: 2009-04-20 17:09:15
Tags: Comic Book,Zombies

 <p><img title="The Walking Dead Book 1 Cover" alt="The Walking Dead Book 1 Cover" src="https://images.kartones.net/posts/theelderthoughts/the_walking_dead1_cover.png" /></p> <p>I've just finished reading <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&amp;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FWalking-Dead-Book-Bk%2Fdp%2F1582406197&amp;tag=kartonnet-20&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325">the first book of The Walking Dead</a>, a comic about a post-apocalyptic zombie themed world.</p>  <p>The story is simple and typical: Somehow, zombies appear and (at least on the US from what I've read so far) seems to have destroyed the civilitation, leaving only groups of survivors scattered. The main character is a cop who, after being shot, awakes from a coma one month later and finds everybody is either dead or turned into a zombie.</p>  <p>Not much impressive about the argument (looks a lot like the 28 Days Later film), but as the author explains, it is like a "zombie film that never ends". Some situations are typical, others more deeply thought, and overall if you like zombie films (like I do), the comic is really nice and leaves you waiting for more (in my case, waiting for the re-stocking of the second volume).</p>  <p>The characters are well portaited and human psychology is well developed, having from psychopats to fearless, overprotective and other common schemes.</p>  <p>The series are not yet finished (4 books are available, each one covering 6 original comics, and the fifth "pack" is being released this year, first as another 6 separate comics and then probably as a fifth book). </p>  <p>As I said, is like a zombie movie, but longer.&amp;#160; The drawings are nice and the undead are frightening (even being at black &amp; white). I want more zombies!!! :D</p>
