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Rus Wooton Goodreads Author Illustrator ,. Stefano Gaudiano Illustrator ,. Cliff Rathburn Illustrator ,. Marc-Oliver Frisch Translator ,. Dave Stewart Illustrator ,. Michael Schuster Translator ,. Frank Neubauer Translator. The world we knew is gone. The world of commerce and frivolous necessity has been replaced by a world of survival and responsibility. An epidemic of apocalyptic proportions has swept the globe, causing the dead to rise and feed on the living.
In a matter of months society has crumbled: no government, no grocery stores, no mail delivery, no cable TV. In a world ruled by the The world we knew is gone. In a world ruled by the dead, the survivors are forced to finally start living.
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I absolutely loved the first two seasons of The Walking Dead , so I decided why not give the comic books a chance. And I was not disappointed. 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. It was certainly interesting looking back at how Rick started on his journey and how much he has changed and matured since.
Oh, and Shane also appeared which reminded me of how much I despised him always a fun reminder. At all. And I almost forgot how gruesome some scenes can be in The Walking Dead , especially when they went on the hunt for guns in Atlanta: I had to take a breather after that part. And yet this kind of made me want to continue watching the show?? If you're interested in buying The Walking Dead, Vol. I'll make a small commission!
View 2 comments. Dec 21, Anne rated it really liked it Shelves: braaaaaains-zombies , graphic-novels , read-in Kudos to Image Comics for saving all that money on a colorist better, Erica?
I get it, I get it! I'm frugal , too. In fact, view spoiler [ We just got back from a family vacation. And the entire time, I couldn't get my youngest to eat anything they served for breakfast at the place we were staying. Waffles with strawberries and whipped cream But she's 6, and none of it tasted like Mommy's food. On day 3, I spied their stash of Froot Loops. Or Kudos to Image Comics for saving all that money on a colorist better, Erica? Or not. These taste funny. At that point, my husband was giving me one of his classic, What the hell is wrong with your kid looks, and I realized that the Froot Loops tasted funny to her because they weren't the generic Bag 'O Artificially Colored Rings that I normally buy.
Well, shit. Seemed like a fine start for a story about the zombie apocalypse, though. Personally, I liked that the undead hordes were all pokey and sluggish. It was a nice switch-up from the new Turbo-Zombies that seem to be zipping around here nowadays.
I mean, come on! I can't be the only person who wants to believe that I'd survive the inevitable End of the World, simply because I can shuffle faster than a corpse! There's a lot of meaningful things that Days Gone Bye explores.
Life lessons, morality lessons, blah, blah, blah. But what struck me as amazing , didn't have anything to do with the real-life metaphors that Kirkman played with in this thing. Do you have any idea how hard that would be? Especially from his lower vantage point! The real moral of the story is that you need to teach your kids how to handle guns. Preferably, as soon as they can toddle. Someday, it might just save your life. View all 72 comments. Apr 02, Stephen rated it really liked it Shelves: comics-graphic-novels , , dead-heads , sf-apocalyptic-and-post-apocalyptic , horror.
You can see by the ratings and the other reviews of this book that a lot of people think very highly of this series and it is certainly justified. This is the kind of excellence in both writing and art that make the graphic novel an incredibly power medium when it is done well.
Basically, the set up is very familiar. It is a zombie apocalypse, society has broken down an 4. It is a zombie apocalypse, society has broken down and the walking dead control the cities with bands of humans living in the outskirts trying to survive. I think that is enough background for you to understand the basic premise of the series. The Realism The creators of this story have started with an impossible, unbelievable premise and yet from there have done their best to make the reader forget that we are dealing with science ficiton.
They have imbued the story with a very realistic tone and the actions and inactions of the characters in the story felt authentic. The character development is excellent and the emotional resonance is stronger than you typically see in this kind of story. The Zombies One thing that really struck me while I was reading this is that I found myself feeling sorry for the zombies.
I think this was something intentional on the part of the creators. She is just lying there moaning and unable to move. She looked Later on Rick sees this same zombie again and she is in the exact same spot and you can tell it makes him sad.
I found this aspect to be very compelling and added an additional layer to the dread of becoming one of these creatures. I thought the writers did an excellent job in this respect. Overall, I was very impressed with this first volume and plan to continue reading the series. Well written, well constructed plot with believable characters and an engaging storyline. But that's just me View all 10 comments. Jul 15, Jon rated it it was ok Shelves: comics-graphicnovels-manga , horror-gothic-weird , summer-reads , sci-fi-fantasy.
I wanted to really like volume one of The Walking Dead. Most people do like it. They like it a lot. I didn't, which doesn't make anyone better or smarter than anyone else, we just have different tastes. I appreciate Robert Kirkman wanting to write a social commentary and not just a horror story, but I don't know that he needs to state this in the introduction - all good zombie and horror stories are dealing with more than just the surface material, so Kirkman emphasizing his social commentary s I wanted to really like volume one of The Walking Dead.
I appreciate Robert Kirkman wanting to write a social commentary and not just a horror story, but I don't know that he needs to state this in the introduction - all good zombie and horror stories are dealing with more than just the surface material, so Kirkman emphasizing his social commentary sounds more like him trying to convince everyone his stuff is smart and deserving of our attention and praise; why not let his graphic novel prove its merit on its own?
I didn't feel that the character development was that deep. The greatest transgressor here was Lori, who is very one-dimensional. She's the most incompetent woman in the whole story. To me, she is just the whining wife character who tries to frustrate Rick's chivalric heroism by not wanting him to go to the city, or she's the over-protective mother figure who doesn't want their son, Carl, to be taught how to shoot a gun silly women, not letting their boys become men. She's helpless, submissive, and mostly just obnoxious.
I didn't feel that Kirkman explored some of the issues of survival very thoroughly. For example, gender issues and the division of labor is raised when some of the women are going to wash the clothes. But the issue is opened by Donna's shallow complaints about women doing the washing and men doing the hunting. Her argument is bland and Lori's response is equally so, she claims it "isn't about women's rights.
The problem is that if you're wanting to survive in the apocalypse or if you just wanna be able to live in our regular supposedly non-apocalyptic life , everyone should be learning as many skills as possible. Kirkman has the opportunity to examine gender roles here, but chooses to reduce the issue to a series of bumper sticker statements that don't really say anything.
This becomes even more of a problem for me when later the women are taught how to shoot. After the argument over who washes and who hunts, it seems silly that women are expected to learn so-called "manly" skills like shooting a gun but men are allowed to remain ignorant to washing clothes.
It's a man's world, zombies or no zombies. Obviously, women should learn how to shoot to protect themselves and to catch food, but domestic chores are also important for survival and the men should learn those too.
Is this a small detail I'm picking at? But it happens so often in our culture and our stories that it really annoys the hell out of me. And I don't think this is the characters being ignorantly sexist, I think it's Kirkman being ignorantly sexist. Another instance of cheap dramatics used to show Lori's helplessness and Kirkman's lame gender use is following the laundry washing when the women are attacked by a zombie and Dale beheads it with his axe.
The zombie's head is still "alive" which logically means they have to shoot the head to kill it, even though Dale is holding his axe and we see many zombies dispatched with axes and hatchets including right before this moment when Rick kills the zombie feeding on the deer with his hatchet. Using the gun to kill the head is a lame move, creating bland dramatics to get Rick and Shane to come running back to camp, where Lori cries on Rick's shoulder, completely beside herself with fear - "Oh, God, Rick.
Gender studies issues aside, The Walking Dead just moves too quickly a lot of the time. A story focusing on the day-to-day challenge of surviving in a blighted landscape should dwell on the monotony of survival, at least some of the time.
Kirkman wants the story to drag along and take its time, but it just felt rushed to me. It's like he wanted to have dead time where not much was happening, but then got bored with it and just rushed us on to the next zombie scene where we can be thrilled by Tony Moore's grisly art - mundane chores don't sell stories, but violence does. Moore's art is pretty good, especially the zombies. But this is an emphasis again on grotesque body horror and violence.
There are lots of close-ups of heads getting hacked at and shot. The gore abounds and while that isn't always a bad thing because we are reading a fantasy and zombie stories are a violent, nasty subject, I wonder if Moore was a bit too enamored with killing things. As I said, I wanted to like this graphic novel, but in the end it was just okay. It coulda, shoulda been brilliant and there are nice moments and signs of real quality.
But the effort to make it stellar proved too difficult, so Kirkman and co. View all 11 comments. Jan 23, Tina Haigler rated it really liked it Shelves: graphic-novel. Honestly, I'm probably the one person on the planet that hasn't watched much of the TV show but I was surprised at how much more quickly things in the comic happen.
I feel like season one was probably Vol. Rule number one for reading this: Do not get attached to any of the characters! At least one person dies in each one, at least they do in the first three volumes, and in most cases it's 2 or more deaths per volume. Comment 15 5 April Rio , big thanks for the missing content as well as for your quick reaction!!! Comment 16 6 April Thanks a lot man I've wanted to read Volume 24 for so long, and as a bonus I get issue ?
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With exclusive insights into season 7, special sidebars, as well as an original essay on Why We Love Zombies, The Ultimate Guide to The Walking Dead is the drop un-dead companion to one of the hottest shows on television today. Returning with the second eight volumes of the fan-favorite, New York Times bestseller series, The Walking Dead, collected into one massive paperback collection! This is the perfect collection for any fan of the Emmy Award-winning television series on AMC: over one-thousand pages chronicling the next chapter of Robert Kirkman's Eisner Award-winning continuing story of survival horror - beginning with Rick Grimes' struggle to survive after the prison raid, to the group's finding short solace in The Community, and the devastation that follows.
In a world ruled by the dead, we are finally forced to finally start living. Collects The Walking Dead The group has a visitor, but is she friend, foe or worse? Where did she come from? How did she survive?
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