The Walking Dead... errr... am I late?

[KiddToKmart]

Just caught up on this show, and... WOW! It's everything I never knew I actually wanted from a full-fledged, zombie series. Can't really compare them with movies but it left a much deeper impact on me than 28 Days/Weeks Later, or any other similar Zombie movies which are just about mindless killing.

Off to find some Zombie games... suggestions, anyone? Dead Rising and Zombieville USA, here I come...

[LucianOrb]

The TV show is crap compared to the comics it was based in.

If you really liked the series that much, do yourself a huge favor, forget about stupid zombies games and go buy the comics as fast as you can, they're awesome.

[SkyMuffin]

Originally Posted by LucianOrb

The TV show is crap compared to the comics it was based in.

If you really liked the series that much, do yourself a huge favor, forget about stupid zombies games and go buy the comics as fast as you can, they're awesome.

I have to disagree with you. Kirkman's writing/pacing is so slow compared to the show that it's barely even worth your time to read it. I got bored after the first five issues.

[lurtz6]

(clapping) Welcome to the party! Yeah, this is the BEST show on TV. They are making an iOS title based on it though. Until that comes out, then I sugest:

Resident Evil 4
Plants vs. Zombies

[Paradiso]

[KiddToKmart]

ZombieSmash and PvZ are both great, though have played and re-player them countless times before.

Giving Dead Rising a try, may try Resident Evil 4 and Gameloft's version as well (forgot the name).

Can't wait for Season 2, though I hear it'll be coming near the end of this year? :/

[walsh06]

Originally Posted by LucianOrb

The TV show is crap compared to the comics it was based in.

If you really liked the series that much, do yourself a huge favor, forget about stupid zombies games and go buy the comics as fast as you can, they're awesome.

agreed completely. Im going to watch the series when the current tv season ends but the comics are unreal. Some of the best reading I have read.

[Random_Guy]

The TV Show is boring.

[danrel]

Originally Posted by SkyMuffin

I have to disagree with you. Kirkman's writing/pacing is so slow compared to the show that it's barely even worth your time to read it. I got bored after the first five issues.

Whaaaa!? Kirkman's pacing is slow because the comic is more about thorough character development in a post apocalyptic future than it is about action scenes or even zombies in general. The whole idea is more about getting the reading emotionally vested in the characters themselves. If you look at the story and it's progression, it's almost as though zombies were an afterthought, IMO.

If you want a good, fun and funny read, also by Kirkman(actually his first published work) check out 'Battle Pope'. It's got plenty of action and it's quite funny.

***Note, if you're a die-hard Christian, you probably will not like Battle Pope.

Also, 'Invincible', again, by Kirkman is an astounding super hero comic right up there with the best Marvel/DC comics IMO.

Oh, did I forget to mention 'Marvel Zombies'? Yet another great Kirkman comic...

I'm a Kirkman fan, can you tell?

[SkyMuffin]

Originally Posted by danrel

Whaaaa!? Kirkman's pacing is slow because the comic is more about thorough character development in a post apocalyptic future than it is about action scenes or even zombies in general. The whole idea is more about getting the reading emotionally vested in the characters themselves. If you look at the story and it's progression, it's almost as though zombies were an afterthought, IMO.

If you have read any other comics --especially those which are considered essential, such as The Dark Knight Returns, Watchmen, etc.-- the pacing of The Walking Dead and Invincible are both completely terrible. Kirkman spends pages upon pages drawing out things which would normally take one page, and his "characterization" is just a bunch of shitty paragraph-long monologues that feel out of place and awkward.

He's terrible. He has good ideas but he needs an editor badly.

**this is after reading 60 issues of Invincible, by the way.