For all the hype this series got, I have almost no drive to read the second volume - the characters were predictable and boring, the plot was... predictable and boring, and unless more interesting story arcs start to come out of the woodwork, I doubt I'll continue after the second volume. Good art if somewhat uninspired. That's actually how I felt about the entire first volume - uninspired. The zombie genre is done to death, and this adds nothing interesting or original. ( )

There's something to be said about zombies. They are a very interesting pop culture phenomenon, from Plan 9 from Outer Space to Left 4 Dead, zombies have swarmed into our culture and multiplied, most likely by biting elements of the culture, and thus turning those elements into zombies. Why else would we have things like Pride and Prejudice and Zombies?

Or The Walking Dead?

The Walking Dead is like the NeverEnding Story, only instead of luck dragons and childlike empresses, we have zombies and humans trying not to be turned into zombies. It follows the story of a police officer, after waking up in the hospital (which seems to be a very common theme among zombie and zomboid films). He slowly makes his way to Atlanta, which is overrun with the undead. He finds his family, having left him in the hospital, and he and they and the rest of the survivors live (if living you could call it) on the outskirts of the town.

Beautifully drawn by Tony Moore, this comic features panel after panel of black and white images. Additionally, it is masterfully written by Kirkman, a fan of the classic (and in my opinion, only) zombie.

If you like books by authors like Brooks or films by Romero, you'll most certainly have a place for Walking Dead in your heart. Just make sure it doesn't get to your brains. ( )

People are scarier than Zombies. ( )

See review here: http://panelpatter.blogspot.com/2008/... ( )

(Amy) I know I've mentioned before that I love zombie fiction. I really don't know why, but it's true, and it's also true that my standards for calling zombie fiction "good" are rather lower than they probably are for most people.

I'm okay with that.

So, this is a comic book about zombies. By all normal logic, it should be absolutely wretched. Instead, it would appear to be made of awesome. Of course, by the nature of comics, this first volume only has the beginning of the story - the first chapter of the novel; the pilot episode of the series - so I'm reserving full judgment until I've read a few more volumes, but so far, it is of the good.

(And reading the introduction gives me reason to believe it will stay that way, too, given the way the guy says he wants to approach the zombie-story thing.)

( http://weblog.siliconcerebrate.com/ze... )