The Walking Dead: Book One

The Walking Dead: Book One: A Continuing Story of Survival Horror
by Robert Kirkland (writer), Tony Moore and Charlie Adlard (artists) [741.5 qKir]

My first exposure to The Walking Dead was the AMC television series based on Kirkman's series of graphic novels. Having enjoyed that series tremendously, I thought I'd go back and read the original. I found this graphic novel series to be intense and engrossing. This is far, far more than merely "people trying to survive a post apocaplyptic scenario". The primary focus of this graphic novel series is on the characters, their relationships and their motivations -- you grow to care about these people and watching the chaos they find themselves in the midst of is truly scary. The graphic novel version of the story goes in a different direction than the AMC series, but there are enough similarities that fans of the show should enjoy the books as well. Just be prepared -- both the series and the books are graphically intense, and probably not for younger readers. I thought I would be disappointed that the art is B&W instead of full-color, but the stark quality is actually rather well accomplished. [If you enjoy this, you may also wish to try World War Z and The Zombie Survival Guide, both by max Brooks.] -- recommended by Scott C. - Bennett Martin Public Library


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