The Walking Dead
I figure with the tv show now, might as well start up a thread for the comic so things can be kept separate and hopefully spoiler free from one another.
Anyways, I'm up to issue 51 now. Just jaw-dropping, some of these issues are! I can't remember a comic I've ever read, where I've gotten so emotionally involved with the characters in such a short period of time.
Maybe it's because of the looming threat that anyone can die that does it, I don't know.
Even when they switched artists, I hated that Adlard guys work so much at first, but now, after 40+ issues of him doing it, i think he's finally caught his stride. All the characters look distinct from each other and show some real emotion on their faces and body language.
Only thing I'm worried about now is, as it goes on, if the great characterization will actually hurt things. That as they introduce new characters, there'll be a part of me that doesn't want to get to invested in them, knowing that they are basically there just so they can die.
Anyways, anyone else here read it? What issue are you at? any other thoughts or comments?
I'm caught up on this one, too. Awesome series. I don't think the show is going to last. Plus, the show is taking a different path plot-wise.
“The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.” -- Nikola Tesla
My favorite line from the series so far, and probably my favorite line from any comic book ever!
"Sometimes Smart Motherfuckers sound like Crazy Motherfuckers to Stupid Motherfuckers!"
Well, I'm all caught up now to #79. When does 80 come out anyone know? This is bullshit actually having to wait! HA!
I feel pretty much the same way about the art. When I look back at the first volume, I really love that art and miss it, but at the same time i feel like the new art has the ability to capture some of the darker moments a little better. It's grittier.
I thought for sure this was going to be the one where Rick ends up dying. LOL
I thought for sure this was going to be the one where Rick ends up dying. LOL
No, worse!
"A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism." -Carl Sagan
"Am I cruel? Probably. Is she an idiot? Yes." -jane s.
you mean where they slaughter the cannibal dudes?
also, I loved the little back up feature to #75 where he does finally throw in the aliens. Hilarious!
I hope they keep that as a running gag and do another little 4-5 page spread like that for issue 100 or 125, something like each time they get to a milestone number, do something fun like that.
No, I mean the person who dies in that issue.
And I don't know what you are talking about with that second post. I don't have the actual issues. I have the trade paper backs. I haven't bought a single issue comic in like a year because they are like fucking $4 now. It's insane. And it really sucks because they don't put the original covers or the letters or anything in the TPBs. Where did you get all the individual issues all at once?
"A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism." -Carl Sagan
"Am I cruel? Probably. Is she an idiot? Yes." -jane s.
I just ripped em all off some torrent sites. But now after reading them, i think I'm going to end up going out and getting the hardcover versions. This is definitely something to be kept in my library!
and all through the early issues he had said how it was going to end around #75 when he introduced aliens and jumped the shark. I guess half-kiddingly, not really expecting the book to become as huge as it did. Then when it became obvious that it was a hit and was going to last a long, long while, that became a sort of running gag in the letter pages, about aliens showing up in issue 75.
So then when it actually gets to 75, after the story is over and the letters pages are done (with him stating specifically that what follows is just something for fun and is in no way associated with the actual series.) it opens up with a continuation of the last panel from before, only now it's in color and RIck's got this robo hand and they're all fighting aliens, the govenor is working with the aliens, it's just hilarious. Then ending with a definitive "NOT To Be Continued!"
Even moreso, in the next couple issues letter pages when you see angry people writing in, thinking that it was actually part of the story!
If you can find it, it's worth looking around for, just for the laughs.
I usually do this too.
I get the comics/graphic novels this way and if I like them I go out and buy them.
What kind of sites do this? I am a computer retard.
"A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism." -Carl Sagan
"Am I cruel? Probably. Is she an idiot? Yes." -jane s.
Basically they convert comic books into cbr or cbz files. You then have to download a reader. I use CDisplay.
It works the same way as downloading music.
I use torrentz.com to find stuff. And utorrent to download it.
I went out today and bought issue 75. That bit at the end is brilliant. Hilarious. And I love the letters. I also got #74, 78, 79m and from here on out I will be collecting each issue.
"A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism." -Carl Sagan
"Am I cruel? Probably. Is she an idiot? Yes." -jane s.
80 is supposed to be out Jan 5th. Allegedly.
I'm getting this 1-75 or something right now. I kind of don't want to give away the show because I like being surprised and not be forced compare the 2 (which I will do). I might just read up to about where the show ended last season. But I'll probably just read them all till they are done.
Pretty much after issue 2 is where the book and the show part ways. after that about the only thing the same is there's a main protagonist cop and his wife and son.
Yeah, I'm on number 7 now and I can see how they changed a lot of stuff for the show. Especially the person they killed off at the end of issue 6.
I'd love to see them take the next season and mix things up a little so the season ends with the #6 thing and also with where they end up around issue 24.
Yeah, that would be cool. I really don't think they'll be able to pass up on such a dramatic event in the story (from the issue 6), they're probably just trying to build up the tension even more. I mean, the pace of the show is a lot slower moving than the comic.
Actually I would like to see a lot more aspects of the comic plots in the next season (like the desperation, people losing themselves in violence and death happening once you get to know a character like you were talking about in the first post).
Really, overall, I'm kind of more impressed with the show now that I've read a lot of these issues because they added a lot of cool aspects, like taking one panel (the one with the tank in the middle of Atlanta) and making it into a good part of the story in the first couple episodes.
I know this isn't a comparison thread but it's hard not to compare them.
And when they changed artists I was a little iffy too (I read like 30 issues yesterday) but it only took him like 2 issues to get his shit together and really start kicking ass on the art. Who knows, maybe he had to come in really quick and meet a deadline on the first couple issues he did, they seem a bit rushed.
Just picked up issue 80. I'll read it asap.
"A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism." -Carl Sagan
"Am I cruel? Probably. Is she an idiot? Yes." -jane s.
I finished 78 issues. It's like my favorite thing in the world. I just read them over and over.
I feel pretty much the same way about the art. When I look back at the first volume, I really love that art and miss it, but at the same time i feel like the new art has the ability to capture some of the darker moments a little better. It's grittier.
Let me know when you get to issue 66.
"A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism." -Carl Sagan
"Am I cruel? Probably. Is she an idiot? Yes." -jane s.