Creator/Writer/Letterer: Robert Kirkman
Penciller/Inker: Tony Moore
Gray Tones: Cliff Rathburn
Editor: Sina Grace
I have been sooooooo bad! I let my reviews slide for sooooooo long and just could not get back to doing them! Sorry, oops! But enough is enough. I just decided that this week I would pick an easy book to review & make it Kara's Comic for Comic Book Week February 9th, 2011........"The Walking Dead Weekly #6"!
If you are like me you may or may not have heard of The Walking Dead by the fabulous Robert Kirkman but ignored it until the incredible series on AMC. For that reason Kirkman is taking the original series and reprinting it in weekly format for those newbies that want to get back in on the bottom floor..........like me! ;)
I will admit to not being a big zombie fan..........I like horror but mostly vampires & my previous zombie experience has really only been with "Shaun of the Dead".......which I ♥love♥.......but The Walking Dead is different. It is more about the real people living in the world that now belongs to the zombies. Most movies are short so they are all about fighting the creatures until the end where they all somehow die or it looks like they will die. But in The Walking Dead the story does not appear to be ready to end any time soon so we get the few remaining living breathing people fighting zombies here and there but mostly just trying to learn to live in a world where they are really the ones that are always being hunted.
And the first difference I have noted in Kirkman's writing versus most other writers.......both here & on AMC.......is his pacing. While he does not rush the story in any way, plot points that you would expect to be held for a long time are resolved quite quickly & then new stories developed. It is quite strange & unusual actually in comics particularly where one sees stories that last for sometimes years where nothing ever seems to happen........like the New Avengers........or one sees big event after big event after big event......like the whole Identity Crisis through to Brightest Day thing. What identifies the comic versus the AMC series is Moore & Rathburn`s fabulous artwork! It is really a joy to behold in its gray toned glory! The characters are all unique & expressive, the zombies are terrifyingly beautiful, & the scenery is suitable to hang in an art gallery!
I do not want to give any story points away as it would give away both the television & comic book series, but this issue is where the two take the biggest divergence. The first 5 issues followed very closely the first 4 or 5 episodes but something very big happens at the end of this issue that shocked me! Someone dies that I had no expectation of dying & in Kirkman`s hands it made me gasp & cry.
This book is not perfect but it is a great read & so very pretty! & apparently season 2 of the show on AMC will not happen until fall of 2011 so whether you watched the 1st season or not I recommend grabbing the weekly fix from the printed version!
Thank you all so much for reading! Here is a preview of the second season of The Walking Dead on AMC: http://bit.ly/i2wVUV
Also I wrote a guest blog recently for Girls Read Comics Too! It has not been posted yet but please keep checking & hopefully it will be up soon.........& you will get to read some fabulous stuff by some other great women while waiting! ツ*
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