Walking Dead

 Zombies are roaming from the pages of Robert Kirkman’s The Walking Dead comic book onto your television screen.   The Emmy Award winning network declared that the series, which will debut Halloween 2010, will feature Frank Darabont’s direction.  Frank Darabont is known for his work on The Mist and Shawshank Redemption.

The Walking Dead main reputation is Rick Grimes, a small-town policeman from Kentucky, who along with his family and other survivors have pulled together to try to survive after the world is overrun with zombies. The series uses the zombies more as a foil for the reputation development than as the main focus of the story.  Ultimately, the story of The Walking Dead is in regards to how humane beings react and construct after life altering tragic events that changes their lives.   

The Story

The story begins when Rick is injured in a gun battle. When he wakes up from a deep coma, he finds that the hospital and town are overrun with zombies. After finding his home abandoned, he sets out for Atlanta where survivors are told to go. He discovers the city is overrun by zombies and bumps into Glenn, a scavenger for a group of survivors. Deciding to follow Glenn, Rick finds his wife Lori and son Carl with the group of other survivors, along with Shane, his collaborator on the police force.  Thinking Rick dead, Shane and Lori had been having and affair, and Shane isn’t incisively happy that his former collaborator has returned.

The group search for a safer location, settling in various temporary homes and camps, including a prison, which comes to the attention of an insane man calling himself the Governor. The Governor runs his local city, Woodbury, like a dictator and tortures Rick and other members of his group, at last assaulting the group at the prison. After the prison is made unsecure by the attack, Rick and the surviving members, leave with a new band of survivors to Washington D.C for a chance to heal the infection.  Along the way they encounter cannibals and a township that is enclosed and safe, but holds a secret.

Fans of The Walking Dead have long envisioned the upcoming TV Series.  On January 21st, 2010, AMC declared it had ordered a pilot of the series, which started out filming in May of 2010.  The internet has been in an uproar since the announcement, specially since AMC staged a lot of series scenes at Comic Con.   Fans have been flocking to their favored fan internetsite to countdown to the premiere.

Walking Dead

Introducing the primary eight volumes of this fan-favorite series accumulated into one massive paperback collection! Collects The Walking Dead #1-48.

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The Definitive Book of the Dead!
By Sky
Most of the folks here already know that The Walking Dead saga is a compilation of stories by Robert Kirkman that exaggerate on the story that is well recognise to any zombie movie fan. The main story. The one started in earnest by George Romero in 1968 with Night of the Living Dead [and was later remade in 1990 (the version that I prefer) by Tom Savini (with Romero oversight)].

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An Epic In Every Sense
By K. Harris
When I heard that AMC was going to give rise to a television series based on the zombie epic “The Walking Dead,” I was both concerned and delighted. A bona fide classic in undead lore, “The Walking Dead” graphic novels are brutal and surprising–not actually what I would picture for a basic cable TV show (the primary season is slated for 6 episodes, we’ll see if it goes beyond that). But AMC has invented terrific and esteemed shows like “Mad Men” and “Breaking Bad,” so I’m pretty stoked to see what they do with this. Add Frank Darabont of “Shawshank Redemption” fame as the originative strength behind the show, and we just might have a winner! In anticipation, I’ve gone back through the volumes of “The Walking Dead” to discover again the a heap of delights that this series has to offer. The Compendium Collects the firstborn Eight Chapters listed below–a great value but a MASSIVE book!

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