Last night I accomplished absolutely nothing. Well, almost nothing. After my trip to the dentist, I had visions of arriving home after Vero had been there for awhile preparing dinner. Sweetness! But this didn’t happen. I roll into the house around 6PM and it’s dark. I have to dodge a bunch of recycling bins which were thrown into the middle of the driveway. Vero has been working overtime because of the Haiti crisis. It’s pretty amazing that they are in contact with the Canadian Forces down there and interviewing a bunch of people. I highly recommend checking in with Army News if you’re interested in hearing interviews from there. http://www.army.forces.gc.ca/land-terre/life-vie/haiti-eng.asp
After preparing some spaghetti ala Palmer (that’s with a lot of meat!), I was falling asleep on the couch while Vero chatted with her grandmother. I realized it was futile to ignore my sleepiness. At 8:30 I headed for bed. As I crawled in, I picked up the first volume of The Walking Dead by Robert Kirkman. I have heard a lot of good things about this series over the years so I figured it was due time to jump in. Heck, even AMC is making a pilot for a TV series.
The Walking Dead follows Officer Rick after he was shot in the line of duty. He wakes up from a month long coma and is the only one inside the hospital (Think: the beginning of 28 Days Later). He looks around the hospital and encounters a zombie! What the heck?! After escaping, he finds his town empty and heads for home where he can’t find his family. Some humans have holed up in the house next door and explain that somehow people have become zombies and the government has asked people to head to major city centers to find aid. He figures that his family could be in Atlanta so he heads out there and finds that the city has been taken over by zombies! He then finds a group of survivors who are camping outside of the city limits and takes refuge there where they discuss what they should be doing next, how they are going to get supplies, etc.
All in all, I really enjoyed the first trade paperback of the series. The story is not an original one, at least not at this point…everyone knows what a zombie story is like. However, I like how the comic focuses more on the characters and how they interact with this crisis…that’s what makes a good zombie story a great one. The character development. You can see the difference in Officer Rick’s life as she changes from this mild-mannered cop from a small town where he only shot his gun a few times in his life, to a commanding force who has to take out dozens of zombies when they attack.
I also enjoyed the artwork by Tony Moore. The artwork is not in full colour but in gray tones which adds to the creepiness of their environment. Ha, wouldn’t that be awesome if the final issue would be in full colour all of a sudden? Kind of like how the Matrix ended with a full colour spectrum in the world instead of the greenish hue.
Recommended! I’m excited to see where the series will go!