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Summary: Great series albiet contrived at times
Review: A great series that explores human nature and is sometimes a scathing commentary of the frivolousness of modern life and what we call civilization. Depressing at times, it is also very uplifting at others. The only real flaw with The Walking Dead is how dreadfully transparent the storylines are and now much influence it draws on modern zombie movies such as 28 Days Later... The smooth, clean artwork is also to be noted.
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Summary: Kirkman Rocks
Review: All I gots to say is Rip Off OF 28 Days Later!!!!! Get some tallent on this book. Im just kidding. I've read just about everything Kirkman has done voraciously, including the small print Battle Pope (bring on tha' whores!). Other titles that are extremely awesome are Invincible, a new take on the super-hero genre. The now defunct Tech-Jacket was a good sci-fi yarn (bring it back! And Space Dog too!) Hell, this dude even got picked up by Marvel (sellout) of all things. Check out his current run on Captain America with the whole Avengers Dissaseembled mess going on (but Batroc? Man, c'mon thats lame. A leaping bad guy. Real threataning. i.e. Toad from X-Men, what a chump). Kirkman is a great guy and a great new tallent that is on his way on the up and up. Excelcior! cough*28DAYSLATERRIPOFF*cough
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Summary: the epic zombie movie we always wanted to see
Review: i am a huge zombie fan and i love romeros work among others, and there was always the problem of not having the best actors possible and the budgets being next to nothing, but i had in my mind a epic zombie tale..this is it!we have great writing that makes us grow to love the characters and feel for them, there are plenty of moments with just people being people, it's not all gore and zombies, that is why so many non horror fans love this. but worry not horror/zombie fans, there is plenty of attacks, cities full of zombies living dead horror, no budget worries here, the artist can simply fill the page with as many as he wants, and the art is fantastic, very realistic with a ever so slight cartoony edge that never takes away from the impact of the story, and these are some of the best zombies i have ever seen. it's all balanced out so well, it keeps you coming back for more, i hope they release more since the series is at issue 8 now and this collects the first 6.
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Summary: You'll love this book.
Review: I borrowed this from a friend... now I HAVE to get my own copy. I can't wait for volume 2. This book is that good people. Run... don't walk to get this little gem.
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Summary: In any good Zombie story the scariest things are the HUMANS.
Review: I certainly read my fair share of comic books. However it is in an inexpert method, I must say, I am reviewing this graphic novel (being a few years unaccustomed with comicbook story and art).
Right off the bat I will say this book is definitely no less then four stars. It surely is in line for more if there was a second volume in tow (coming in December I believe), but I will evaluate the story as it is in this volume only.
My only qualm about the book is the jumpiness it seems to expedite. Though you could consider this a good attribute as far as the writing goes. You just seem to want more in this very good story by Mr. Kirkman.
It was the second time that I read "Days gone bye" that I really began to lean heavily on the art to tell the rest of the story that isn't worded.
And as the story goes, this is a very Human story. The one good and priceless facet of which is the fact that I can see myself as the story's protagonist, who is devoid of superpowers or genetic superiority.
He's just a Man, a man who desperately wants to find those that he loves and were lost in the chaos of the world's new normal.
"Days gone bye" has a first-rate beginning, shortly after which the story begins to move very quickly ascending toward the story's climax, a little too quickly in my opinion, as mentioned before.
But around a 1/3 of the way through the graphic novel the story starts to settle a little bit to a more measured pace. It is around this point in the story that some of the more poignant scenes take place.
Though it is probably from an untutored eye in, my opinion Mr. Tony Moore is quit the exceptional artist. I am not sure I can amply evaluate the penciling/ink considering I do not usually come by art with the paperbacks I read other then the cover art. But, in my unqualified opinion the art is terrific. And I mean that literally also.
This book is four stars
Mr. Robert Kirkman has done a good job in proving that...
In any good Zombie story (film or literature) the scariest things are the HUMANS.
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Summary: awsome book
Review: i enjoy this book so much, i would lik to know what happen next i would lik to know when the next book come out
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Summary: Great book!
Review: I just read 1-6 and it is great. This is survival fiction at its best. This story beats any zombie movie, since it goes on past two hours. The series is currently at #14 and seems to be still coming.
The interesting part about this series is the the Walking Dead does not refer to the zombies...
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Summary: The Walking Dead rule the earth...
Review: Rick, a small town Kentucky police officer, awakens from a gun shot induced coma to find the world a very different, and very horrifying, place. The dead now walk and attack the far out numbered living. While he slept, the world had ended... While the opening was a tad too close to 28 Days later for my taste (wouldn't it have been more interesting to start at minute zero and progress through the erupting zombie plague?) the story quickly grew on me and, in the absence of a fourth Romero zombie movie, it satisfies. Required reading for any zombie fan.
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Summary: One of the best of the year.
Review: This is an excellent graphic novel that collects issues 1-6 of the Walking Dead series. Robert Kirkman has written a great story here, and Tony Moore's excellent black and white artwork brings it all to life (or should I say, brings life to the dead?). The story unfolds like a well written movie. The characters are well defined and their struggles come across as very human. This is more of a survival story than it is a zombie story, but don't worry...there are plenty of nasty zombies to go around, too. In fact, this is one comic story that I would very much like to see put on the big screen...and I wouldn't change a thing. I enjoy horror comics, but this was different than most. This comic is very intelligent, realistic (for a zombie story) and has a good message about working together to overcome adversity (and what adversity it is here!). Highly recommended.
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Summary: High hopes for a bleak landscape.
Review: With some reluctance I picked up the "Days Gone Bye" trade about two months ago. I had sworn off zombie comics and horror comics in general due to a serious lack of quality amongst the books that I was reading. I had been hearing nothing but praise for "The Walking Dead" for months so I decided to go out and pick up a copy of the trade. I figured for $10 I couldn't go wrong. I decided to give it a shot. Now, when I started reading it I was a little disapointed. I thought it was a bit goofy acutally but I decided to read on. As the book progressed I began to see that Kirkman was actually utlizing the backdrop of a zombie apocalypse as a canvas to tell some seriously intense stories about the hope and perserverance of the human spirit in the face of terrible adversity. Rick Grimes[the main character] and company come off as a very real, very well developed characters. I found myself beginning to care for them very quickly. It turns out that as the story goes on, and the inevitable dread that follows a zombie infested world begins to take shape, the true horror of this comic begins to reveal itself. Although chock full of zombies, the real horror of this book is the things that the living members of the book have to endure in order to survive. Or rather, attempt to survive. As of this writing the book is up to issue #9 in monthly format. # 9 was the absoulte best comic I've read this year so far. This book can only get better.
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