The Walking Dead

You might not know this, but I love all things zombie related. My buddy Jason informed me of an AMC miniseries with a zombie-apocalypse plotline called The Walking Dead. So of course I checked it out and it was totally awesome! I was expecting terrible low-budget SciFi-channel-like special effects but was pleasantly surprised; most of the effects were very well done and more importantly not overdone. Sure there were a few bullet through the head effects that didn't look quite right but that's fine with me. It was also refreshing to find that it really wasn't a show about zombies with a few people trying to survive, it was about people trying to survive and zombies.

I did a little research and found that it's based on a comic book by the same name that is still in production! So of course I got my hands on that, and it's totally better than the show! All of the characters were believable and you can relate with just about all of them. My only beef with the comic is sometimes it's tough to tell some people apart. It's all in black and white and there are so many characters they can sometimes look very similar.

I watched some interviews online and apparently the author of the book has no plans to end it any time soon. The show's producers said they're going to follow the book more or less with a few tangents, so I'm really looking forward to the next full season.

After z-day, you would think the biggest danger would be the zombies, but other people end up being the bigger problem. At the end of the world the people who are left will do anything to get the things they need to survive: food, weapons, shelter, etc. It seems like a good idea to form big groups and work together, but who can you trust? If you come across a stranger or a small group will they join you or just kill you in your sleep and take all your stuff?